I arrived in Munich on Monday night after a nicely uneventful flight. I PIcked up my hire car from the airport, a black Vauxhall Meriva, or as they a called on the Continent, an Opal Meriva. Its a bit of a box, and I'm sure it must have been designed for someone taller, because getting to the handbrake is nothing short of awkward, but hey it runs well and I'm sure we'll become friends over the next month ;)
I finally made it to the hotel at around 11:30 pm, and I say finally, because I'm sure the 50km trip is not really supposed to take 1hr and a half. I discovered that finding your way in a foreign town can be particularly difficult if a) its dark b) you're not too sure where you should be going c) you don't have a single good map to help you. Note to self - a single printout from multimap does not constitute a good map!
Well the hotel is certainly smart enough. The rooms are clean and include pretty much everything you would need. I would have liked a bath as well as just a shower, and maybe a pool, but that's just being picky ;) I could certainly stay here quite comfortably for a while (good job really).
The hotel is also in quite a nice quite location, with fields and some small suburbs nearby (plus off course the obligatory Lidl, Aldi and Ikea). Certainly makes for a pleasant drive to work.
The food in the hotel is also really good. A 'Holiday Inn' breakfast is supposedly something quite special, and I have to say that the range is so good I challenge anybody to not be able to find something that they would like. My current favourite are the fresh cherries mmmh :) I eat in the hotel restaurant in the evenings and my only complaint is that they give you so much. Here's what ordered on the first night (Duck with Pine Nut Salad)
But that was just the starter. After the appetizer dish bought 'Compliments of the Chef' and the starter, I was full before I even got to the main course!
Work (oh yes, that was why I came wasn't it!?), has been good. My colleagues have been great and I feel like I've settled in already. Its nice to be able to enjoy what I am doing, and hopefully that will continue. My only real problem is that the German keyboard has some of the letters in slightly different places, so I have to be careful when typing words containing a 'y'... ;)
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