Who knew it could be like this?

It's official, it's the first day on our 1 year trip across europe and possibly asia(our minds change just about every day). It's still a bit of a mental shock but I'm sure it will wear off in the next couple of days. We said our good-byes and left the team early this morning and made our way to downtown Munich. It is quite a beatiful city(I'm a little partial to Berlin though, there was a lot that I wanted to see there but never got the chance) the architecture is really amazing and the beer halls and gardens are rediculous to say the least. The largest, the Hofbrauhaus, goes through some 30,000 covers a day, and their kitchen is a well oiled production machine. a standard beer is 1 Litre, for 6.90 euro, and everyone is drinking. Not just here, but at every brauhaus, cafe, restaurant, and beer garden. It boggles the mind how much alcohol is consumed in a day, and im most cases its easy to see why, the beer is great, and im almost all cases, cheeper than its volume equivalent of water. Or pop, or coffee, or any other liquid for that matter. Its funny when a bottle of coke is 2 euros but a pork sandwich is 1.50. It feels like splurging almost if you don't buy beer. I may have to stick to a strict beer diet in order to save money.