Apartments and Sausages and Beer, Oh My!
Well! Munich is great. I arrived this morning around 8:00 and Marty met me at the airport. He brought me back to the hotel and I got some breakfast and a shower, then took a little nap while he went to work for awhile. Later we met up with Jutta, the relocation agent who is helping us find an apartment, among other tasks. We looked at two places here in Munich this afternoon.
The apartments were both nice, with hardwood floors throughout, and bigger rooms than I expected. They were typisch Deutsch in that the kitchens were unfurnished (no, not even any cabinets, much less appliances! just empty rooms!) and there were no closets. We could fix that closet problem at Ikea, of course.
Tomorrow we go to see three others, maybe more if Jutta can line them up. But Marty is going to work in the morning and I intend to do a little sightseeing. And find an Internet cafe. I can't access any of my e-mail accounts on this computer due to the firewall (I'm using Marty's work laptop). But at least I could get to Blogger, right? I hear there is an EasyEverything Internet place by the train station, and I think there's a different one even closer to the hotel. I'll head over there in the morning, maybe.
I read a book of short stories on the plane, Speaking with the Angel, edited by Nick Hornby (who wrote About a Boy, Fever Pitch, High Fidelity and other novels...) I really enjoyed the stories. And there was one by Colin Firth! It was good, too! Lots of other good young writers, like Helen Fielding (Bridget Jones's Diary), Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting) and Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius). Unlike with a lot of anthologies, I just started at the beginning and read to the end. I thought it was great. My favorite story, I think, was "Peter Shelley," by Patrick Marber. It was just... really sexy.
Now I'm reading High Fidelity.
The food's been great so far. Just a late breakfast and an early dinner, but I've already had many wonderful different kinds of sausage. And tonight I had a beer with dinner, which is probably why I'm falling asleep on the keys right now.
Well, write me if you want, at hotmail, and I will get it tomorrow from the Internet cafe.
Later!
Well! Munich is great. I arrived this morning around 8:00 and Marty met me at the airport. He brought me back to the hotel and I got some breakfast and a shower, then took a little nap while he went to work for awhile. Later we met up with Jutta, the relocation agent who is helping us find an apartment, among other tasks. We looked at two places here in Munich this afternoon.
The apartments were both nice, with hardwood floors throughout, and bigger rooms than I expected. They were typisch Deutsch in that the kitchens were unfurnished (no, not even any cabinets, much less appliances! just empty rooms!) and there were no closets. We could fix that closet problem at Ikea, of course.
Tomorrow we go to see three others, maybe more if Jutta can line them up. But Marty is going to work in the morning and I intend to do a little sightseeing. And find an Internet cafe. I can't access any of my e-mail accounts on this computer due to the firewall (I'm using Marty's work laptop). But at least I could get to Blogger, right? I hear there is an EasyEverything Internet place by the train station, and I think there's a different one even closer to the hotel. I'll head over there in the morning, maybe.
I read a book of short stories on the plane, Speaking with the Angel, edited by Nick Hornby (who wrote About a Boy, Fever Pitch, High Fidelity and other novels...) I really enjoyed the stories. And there was one by Colin Firth! It was good, too! Lots of other good young writers, like Helen Fielding (Bridget Jones's Diary), Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting) and Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius). Unlike with a lot of anthologies, I just started at the beginning and read to the end. I thought it was great. My favorite story, I think, was "Peter Shelley," by Patrick Marber. It was just... really sexy.
Now I'm reading High Fidelity.
The food's been great so far. Just a late breakfast and an early dinner, but I've already had many wonderful different kinds of sausage. And tonight I had a beer with dinner, which is probably why I'm falling asleep on the keys right now.
Well, write me if you want, at hotmail, and I will get it tomorrow from the Internet cafe.
Later!
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