Germany: A rest in Muenster before leaving the country for a little while

Before I begin talking about Muenster I will tell you a fun fact - if ever you are in a situation when you want to write a german word that has an umlaute (two dots over the letter) you add in an 'e'. I discovered this in Berlin when I was trying to book a train to Muenster without an umlaute function on my phone. It saved me from accidentally booking a train to the wrong place and it was a fun thing to learn. So for the blog I will be writing about Muenster so get ready...

I really like Muenster. It is a very small city but was a good stop as I head west towards the Netherlands. I really enjoyed wandering around. It was certainly less touristy than Dresden and Bremen and while I certainly wasn't the only tourist, I enjoyed the more authentic feel and the stronger university presence. The day I arrived was market day and I bought the most delicious strawberries for lunch and wandered around enjoying the atmosphere. The shops were fun to visit - there was the most amazing cheese shop with flavours such as lavender, cumin, basil, garlic and you could sample all of them. They were also slicing cheese like a flower and you could choose what 'pearls' you could have. I choose goat cheese and red wine pearls and it just melted in my mouth in this explosion of deliciousness! I have been trying to have local foods such as fish sandwiches and currywurst etc. and I was so tempted to buy a wheel of cheese from the shop until I saw the price and decided that less is more. 

The wasps, just like in all of Europe, were in full force but I prefer having to swat away a polite wasp than deal with mosquitos. I spent a little more time walking in parks which was restful.