Munich
Although we had been in German speaking territory for some three or four days now, speaking German in Austria
just isn’t quite the same as doing so in Germany. I’m not sure what it was, whether it be the small differences in their
diction or the fact that Austrians, in their own words “speak Austrian, not German” (we saw a very confused waitress
in Croatia learn this when she asked an elderly Austrian couple in German if they spoke German, to which they
replied, also in German, “no, we speak Austrian”), so our next stop, and our first one in Germany, was pretty special,
even if it was just for one night. Although I would have ranked Berlin as my