From insulting the Scottish (which involved my mentioning how ugly my clan tartan is, at which point a fellow Wilson-er coughed loudly wearing said tartan. He at least saw the funny side of it and I went very red.) we caught the most famously dodgy airline company - Easy Jet to München (Munich). It was almost disappointingly drama free, although they seem to save money by having one check in counter for every single Easy Jet flight. Needless to say check in took foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
In München we stayed with Tom's second-cousins and their dog Pünktchen (This is the second-cousin + dog tour after all) which was very nice. Pünktchen did decide to adopt me which is apparently unusual as he is not the best new people dog. We were taken on a tour of the Baverian countryside and down to Neuschwanstein which is the castle that Disney is modelled after. Built by mad King Ludwig, it is particularly insane looking. Sadly in a comedy of errors we managed to miss the last tour and only saw it from the outside. Never mind. We did meet some more distant family (cat people I am impressed to say) and discover Kaiserschmarren (or Kaiserschmarrn depending on what province you're in. I think I could eat Kaiserschmarren until death. We will be having a kaiserschmarren party on our return I am certain. Kaiserschmarren literally means 'Emperor's Nonsense' and is like a shredded pancake (but better) usually served with apfelmus (apple mess). It is awesome. Thank you Yvette, for showing us kaiserschmarren.
The rest of our time in München was taken up by randomly walking around the city centre, eating food and watching ice skaters and a cathedral with a cuckoo clock type arrangement with bell-music and clockwork dancers.
And more kaiserschmarren...
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