World Cup Fever in Munich

We returned to Paris on the night of the 13th from Morocco. We spent the morning and afternoon today doing chores, washing our clothes, and relaxing a little bit before we complete the second leg of our vacation.

We left Paris and arrived into Munich around 8PM. The first order of business was to check into our hotel and then go to the nearest beer garden so that we could watch the second half of the Germany v. Czech Republic game. We went to the Augustiner Biergarten, which was about two blocks away from the hotel, I feel that it was our first real taste of World Cup fever.

It was incredible to see over 1,000 Germans with glasses of beer the size of their heads (and some had two or three!). All of them were chanting and cheering for the German team (except for the dozen or so Czech fans). When the game ended and Germany had won the match, the noise was deafening and lasted for the entire night. Even in our hotel room hours later, we could hear the cheering and car horns in the street.


Nick with his beers


Germany Wins!

As a sidenote, we were amazed that even when they were drunk and stumbling down a completely empty street in the middle of the night, Germans do no walk against crosswalk. We followed their way for a while and followed the rules, but after the third time we waited for the walk signal on an empty street, we followed our New Yorker impulses and crossed the street.