My first days out of Italy

Leaving Italy has definitely made me realize how much I love Italy. It's weird how you dont realize how at home you feel at a place until after you leave that place for somewhere else. This week has been filled with homesickness so far, and I really think that it wouldn't have it as bad if I were still in Italy. But I am not, and I should be talking about the present in this blog.. so here goes.
My first day was spent in Munich, Germany. It was a really interesting city and it was very different from any cities we went to in Italy. The first thing I noticed was that it was amazingly clean, something my dad had mentioned before but never really registered. And as far as planning goes the city was really well put together. The public transit seemed very effective, people were riding their bikes everywhere and there were parks as far as the eye could see. My favorite part of the day would have to be the time I spent in the English Gardens. It is this huge park that is right in the city and reminded me of the big park in Vancouver, sans the beautiful beach and mountains. So really it was more of a super-sized Zilker park with beer gardens in it. Nonetheless, I found a good shaded spot and read and napped for a pretty long time. The rest of the day was mostly churches and just wandering around the city. Before we caught our night train out we went to the famous beer garden Hafbrough (i think that is spelled wrong) House. Did the whole German sausage and beer thing (a small beer of course!) just cause you have to do it once while your here.
Today I spent the day in Berlin, and after writing all that I really cant think of much to write about it. It wasn't the best day, but I'll have tomorrow morning before the train for Berlin to convince me to like it. Best of luck to it. Until Hamburg, Ciao!