Ruth’s Diary

July 26, Wednesday Augsburg to Munich (40 miles) Pouring rain – many of the Sita group decided to train, but not us. No sign of the boys we left behind so we started out. There was some hard climbing but not much & although we didn’t start until about 9:30 – 10:00 A.M. we were in Munich about 1:00. We stopped to see the magnificent Gedeuer Saal in Augsburg. We landed in Munich only to find the hostel full. We were somewhat “down” as we had had no lunch so we went into the first “joint” a tavern – our meal was not bad, however. Then Frank &”Phoebe” went out to find rooms. They were gone over an hour, but the results were good. We 4 girls had a small room like in a pension. We had big feather quilts for blankets which at first we didn’t know whether we slept under or over – we finally made the German woman understand our dilemma & were told to get under. We ran into Bob Vandenberg of Marion’s group & after much laughter managed to get him to his room as he had only the vaguest notion of its whereabouts. There we saw some others of the group & planned to go to the Hofbrau – the famous Munich Hofbrau – we walked through the place was blue with smoke & German drinking huge steins of beer so I was satisfied with that much. Since there was no room there we divided up. Helen, Dot & I went to another restaurant & asked what was good – we couldn’t read the menu & finally the waitress after conversing with some Danish boys at the other end of the table got us to order “cuckoo with paprika” which turned out to be chicken with a delicious sauce, a huge bowl of rice for one mark. We walked up the main street of Munich window shopping as we went. In spite of the fact we were not in a hostel & could stay out late – we returned to the house early.