Today we learned about different tourist attractions in different countries, how to say where they are and where places are located in relation to other cities or located in the country.

We also learned  to say which countries we had visited. My motivation seemed to return today and I am glad it did because this is something I may have to say a lot in the future. As I said yesterday, I love visiting new places. I think at the last count I had visited about 19 countries and quite a few cities in each. It became apparent quite quickly that many of my classmates have travelled a lot too. Our teacher decided to name us all “Globe Trotters (a.k.a. Weltenbummler) which literally translates to: World Window Shopper.

Most of us have visited the key tourist attractions in Munich which I mentioned a day or so ago. i.e. Nymphenburg Palace, Englisher Garten etc but I realised I am still yet to visit the Frau Kirche (Woman Church) & Neuschwanstein Schloss (New Swan Stone Castle aka Sleeping Beauty Castle). I found out today from my classmates that you can get a really cheap DB (national rail) ticket that will take you right there almost directly and there is also an outlet shopping centre too. I guess it’s time I did some real “Window shopping” too.

Tchuss….

P.s. Ohhh.. I almost forgot, As the weather was again very nice today and hot, we learnt how to say the “sun is shining”. This made me very happy because my husband’s nickname for me has been “Sunshine” for a while and in days gone by i.e. when I really didn’t know much German but was very enthusiastic and trying to impress him, I would sign off my emails to him as “Dein Sonnigschoen”. This actually means “Your Sunny Beautiful”. As I’m not really that big-headed it really was quite funny but my husband really likes word games so it has stuck. I think this is something that is very usual for Germans as many of my German friends make a lot of plays and sketches based on this. Could I have found a new culture feature?