A Journey to Switzerland part 12

13.08.07 We leave the hospitable house in Rappersville and go back to Munich. Misha sees us off. Again the change in Saint Gallen, and we are in the train to Germany. We found the train very crowded. The most of the passangers were muslem families, returning to Germany, probably, from  temporary work. It was quite near evening, when we came to Munich. It took us a lot of time to find the reserved hotel because of some mistake, as the order Julia had made in the Internet. It was rather unpleasant to go by tram to and fro with luggage in a big street, and at last we understood, where to go after a lot of consulting with local citizens. At last we reached the hotel and found it nice and comfortable. We left the luggage and went out. The hotel appeared to be very near the railway station. In the street parallel to it, we tried in vain to find a German café, all of them were belonging to Eastern people. At last we found one and bought drinks and ice-cream. Contrary to our first day in Munich, when it was morning, now we were rarely meeting a white man in the crowd, moving in front of us. We turned again to the walking street. There were a lot of metal chairs, fixed to the pavement with chains, women in long black dresses were sitting on each of them, their children were playing near. I guessed that their husbands were those, talking and doing business in small groups in the street near the railway station.  We again found young musicians, this time an orchestra of three, plaing wonderful classic music. They were working for money, and the public payed generously. The crowd of listeners stayed for a long time. At last, two babies about a year and a half went in the centre and danced till their parents took them away. It was the last day of our leave, we returned to hotel and on the next morning took the train to airport.

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