Who says a 6-hour layover isn’t enough time to do a little exploring? We sometimes like to schedule moderately long layovers like that so we can go check out a city and get more bang for our travel buck.
Here’s what we were able to enjoy on our layover:
When landing, I hadn’t noticed the yellow patches in the picture, but once on the ground they’re hard to miss!
They’re these massive fields of bright yellow flowers! I wonder what plant they are?
We made our way to Isartor so we could find a nearby design book store my friend wanted to see.
The store, soda, turned out to be super deep and filled with interesting stuff! Calavera was happy. ๐
We noticed fun bikes like these that we should try sometime.
Ooo, these round “meeting” bikes would be so hilarious!
Outside Schrannenhalle (looked like a grocer’s) were these amazing seats that wobbled. Delightful! And there were cool giant clothespin seats too.
The farmer’s market had gorgeous flowers.
I totally would have wanted these if I could take them home.
In the center of the market was this mysterious pole. I couldn’t figure out the significance.
For lunch, we stopped at Zwickl and ended up ordering identical meals: house meatballs with potato salad and ginger lemonade. Who knew the drinks would be so massive?!
Yum, these are pork and beef meatballs and a very pretty potato salad.
They have us plenty of condiments to go with the meal. We tried all the sauces and had different favs.
Walking back to the metro, we saw this dazzling light shop.
If we were staying longer we could get some fresh fruit. Looks great!
Back in the airport, we saw an amazing store of paper goods, called Fabriano. Even their lighting used paper, lol.
Woo hoo!! Free hot drinks at the airport before boarding!
And then it was off to the other leg of our flight. A day well-spent. ๐
It felt very leisurely and somewhat touristy, but we got a lot done and saw some cool things. I call that a win.
