Managed to cool the room down a little bit last night by having the balcony door open. But I didn't like the idea of leaving it open overnight, and the aircon was hopeless, so ended up waking up hot :(
Went into Augsburg first up. Met up with a local guide and went on a walking tour of the city. Had an interesting walk through the Fuggerei settlement, then looked at various buildings, and finished up at St Anna church, where Luther stayed for a while in the cloisters.
Courtyard and buildings in the Fuggerei settlement
Kitchen in a renovated Fuggerei house
Fuggerei social housing
Family in traditional Bavarian dress
Kitchen in an original style house
Photo by Mum
Bedroom in an original style house
Fountain and nobleman
Lower Lech Canal
Augsburg Rathaus
Rathausplatz Augsburg
St Peter's Perlach church and Rathaus
Statue of Hans Jakob Fugger
Glass covered roof of Maximilian Museum
Mercur and Amor statue (Mercury and Cupid)
St Anna's Church
Cloisters of St Anna's where Luther stayed in 1518
Cloisters of St Anna's
Cloisters of St Anna's
Interior of St Anna's
Roof of St Anna's
Interior of St Anna's
Then we got given some free time, so went up the tower in one of the churches, then had a look at the shiny "Goldsaad" - gold room in the Rathaus. Had a bite to eat from Maccas (because it was at our meeting place and I knew I could get a small serving of food).
View to St Jacob's church and Jakobtor city gate tower from St Peter's Perlachturm
Augsburg Rathaus from St Peter's Perlachturm
Rathausplatz from St Peter's Perlachturm
Augsburger Dom (Augsburg Cathedral) from St Peter's Perlachturm
Bells in St Peter's
The Gold Room in Augsburg Rathaus
The Gold Room in Augsburg Rathaus
The Gold Room in Augsburg Rathaus
Then we headed to Dachau. Very sad place. Especially the crematoria. Our guide, Ute, was born in 1938 and had stories to tell about her childhood which was pretty cool.
Train platform and tracks outside Dachau Concentration Camp
Entrance gate to Dachau Concentration Camp
Arbeit Macht Frei gate at Dachau
Shuntroom wing of the Maintenance Building
Barracks at Dachau (demolished 1964/1965, replica reconstructed 1965)
Crematorium ovens in the old crematorium at Dachau (built 1940)
New crematorium building at Dachau (1942)
Gas chamber in the new crematorium building at Dachau
Crematorium ovens in the new crematorium at Dachau
Grave of Many Thousands Unknown
Perimeter trench
International Monument (Nandor Glid, 1968)
Photo by Mum
Roll call area and Maintenance Building
Flowers at the International Monument
Bunker Courtyard with Bunker (Camp Prison) (left) and Maintenance Building (right)
Cell in the prison
Corridor in the camp prison
Maintenance Building
Camp Road
Latrines in the reconstructed barracks
Bunks in the reconstructed barracks
And finally onto Munich. Our hotel is in the middle of an industrial area, so there's nothing of any interest around. We walked into our room and the first thing I said was "this room stinks". Even though it says it's a non-smoking room on the door, there's an ash tray and matches in the room. We opened the window up wide and the door as well to get some air through which has helped. Others weren't so lucky - they got actual smoking rooms. We were all not very happy at all. And to rub salt into the wounds, they charge ten euros a day for the wifi!!!! Which I flat out refuse to pay given our awful experiences so far. It's worse that we're here for two nights right when I need it for organising the next part of our trip (although for the most part that's mostly organised so not the end of the world). But seriously, what hotel in Germany in 2016 doesn't have free wifi? I think this calls for an uncomplimentary review on TripAdvisor. I went down to reception to start asking questions (like, how can I get into the city? where's the nearest station?). Then moved onto where's the nearest laundromat, which of course he couldn't answer, so I said can we look one up, because I have no resources, to which he said, oh there's a business centre computer I could use. I was hoping for some wifi, but whatevs. Decided it was entirely too difficult to get to a laundromat from here (being in the middle of nowhere and all) so gave up on that idea.
Had dinner in the restaurant downstairs. Ok but very salty. Then back up here to find the desk doesn't have any spare power points. You have to disconnect either the lamp or the tv to get power. So after being spoilt by generally good hotels with all the sorts of services you'd expect, this hotel really ended this particular tour very badly.
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