After 2 more successful days at Embedded World, we took a short train ride to Munich to spend the weekend. Thankfully our hotel was right next to the Nuremberg train station, and there are high-speed trains from Nuremberg to Munich about ever half hour to hour, taking a little over an hour and costing 55€. You can just show up at the station and buy them from the ticket machine, and then find a spot on the train to sit. It was nice and easy.
One of my co-workers was also heading down to Munich to check it out so we ended up traveling together, though the train was a bit crowded so we had to sit separately.
Our hotel was awesome and definitely recommend it if you're in Munich. It's an easy train ride on any of the S-lines from the train station to Ostbahnhof, and then 3 stops back on the S-trains to get to the center of Munich at Marienplatz. The only tricky part was at the Ostbahnhof it of course lists just the terminal stations for the various trains, so it was a bit tricky to figure out which ones were heading towards the center, and which ones away. Eventually I found a map that showed all the trains from platforms 1-4 go towards the city. Then once in the city station, there are signs pointing you to a platform where all the trains are going in the direction of Ostbahnhof. So that made it really simple then.
I had dinner with my coworker at Zwickl which is actually where I had my first meal in Munich last time I was here in September. It's delicious! Then more beer at the famous Hofbräuhaus beer hall, where they only come in liter sizes (about 2 pints). We hung out with some people from Munich, as the tables are all shared, and they were really friendly. One was a doctor, and his sister was studying in Australia and it was a bit odd since she had a perfect Australian accent then. Good times were had by all!
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