Checking out of Hotel Gabriele in Unterwossen on Sunday morning, June 4, Frau Gabriele told us they had not had anyone from the U.S. stay there before, and she asked us how we had heard of their hotel. When I went to pay I pulled my Visa out of my pocket, which made her cringe, as I thought it might, so I pulled a large Euro note out of the other, saying "oder Geld?" and she sighed with relief.
The rain returned as we drove out of town and headed north back to Munchen for one night. Yes, returning to Munich on day 4 of a 13 day trip was odd, but chalk it up to the World Cup. We reached Munich early and checked into Hotel Isartor, on the east side of the old town, near the Isar river and the Deutsches Museum. Spent the rest of the morning and early afternoon in the museum, which I believe is Germany's biggest, and is similar to the Smithsonian in D.C. Highlights there included the actual, first U-boat ("U1"), a real V-1, and various other aircraft, spacecraft, engines, etc. We only saw a fraction of the museum though. After lunch we walked west through the old town, past the Marienplatz, etc., and looked for the TI office near the main train station, but couldn't find it. Walked around and around trying to find the Hofbrauhaus, and finally did. We split a number of mases while the kid played it safe and stuck with orange soda.
Next morning, June 5, we checked out of the Isartor and drove up to Rothenburg, still hurting from the night before.