Two Girls and a Eurail Pass

Tarrah and I arrived in Munich mid-afternoon fresh faced and ready to get our stein and pretzel on.  I was so happy to see that the train station I had been in two years ago was still the best in all of Europe and hadn't changed a bit.  That being said, I wish I could say the same thing for what was outside the train station. Munich was definitely not my favorite place of my 2014 trip, I wouldn't even say it was top 5 - but it was definitely what I expected - super German, clean, fun, and full of good beer and the type of hearty delicious food that makes you wish you'd splurged on a private room with an ensuite. After exiting the train station, I was startled to see how quickly in just 2 years Munich had changed.  Tarrah and I stayed at the same hostel Natalie and I had stayed 2 years prior which was just a quick few blocks from the train station and a short walk to the famous beautiful Marienplatz (yes the same famous beautiful Marientplatz where there was the unfortun

After cutting our Slovenian adventure short due to absolute and total boredom (and the rain), we decided to throw in an unplanned stop into our trip to Munich by spending a day and night in Salzburg - the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the backdrop to "The Sound of Music", and yet another UNESCO site (so we knew it would be good), Since the decision to head to Salzburg had been so spur of the moment (we were clearly starting to really embrace our leaf in the wind backpacker lifestyle), we rolled into the Salzburg train station without actually knowing where we would be staying.  Luckily for us, the hostel closest to the train station had 2 beds available at a reasonable price ($25 each). Unlucky for us, we would discover that those beds happened to be in a shared room with a very young and sexually aggressive German couple.  (But more on that later.) Since it was still too early to check into our room, Tarrah and I took to the streets to explore and quickly discov