Day 5, Munich

After walking for more than 17km in Paris city on the last day in Paris, we returned to the hotel with utter contentment and exhaustion. Minutes before we reached hotel, we received an email from Air France informing that our Paris-Munich flight the next morning (10.25am) was cancelled. But they had scheduled another flight itinerary to bring us to Munich (Paris-Geneva-Munich).

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  As our flight was at 7am, we had to leave hotel at 4am.
  Except for 1 front desk staff, the hotel lobby was totally empty. Were we the only 2 affected by the strike? 🤔

It was during situation like this that we really appreciated our eventual decision of staying in a good hotel (including services & location) instead of the original intention of booking an airbnb apartment.

The hotel arranged a taxi to send us to airport and we paid €65 for the very smooth ride. It’s pretty expensive but definitely worth it (not that we had other transport mode choices at 4am).

We’re mentally prepared for a chaotic situation at Charles de Gaulle airport due to the flight cancellations & changes. But no, it’s very calm everywhere. There’s a queue at the check-in counter but it’s a normal one (about 5-6 travellers ahead of us). The boarding area was in quite a state of commotion though as some passengers’ boarding pass could not be scanned (including hubz) and there’re passengers who came for the wrong flight (boarding gate was changed at the last minute).

Apparently some of our seats were messed up. It took 1 passenger to realise that his seat was taken by someone else which led to the “ultimate discovery”. Ended up 7-8 of us were all occupying one another’s seats and none of us (except for the first one) realised it. But we all took it very well and had a good laugh over it 😄 Guess we’re all just thankful that we’re able to carry on with our journey despite the massive strike nationwide.

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  After much hassles of trying to find our connecting flight at Geneva airport, we’re finally ready for the Munich-bound flight.

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  Due to unforeseen circumstances, we flew above the Swiss alps to get to Munich

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  Finally we arrived at Marienplatz

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  Our first meal of the day at 2.30pm

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  Beer flight (beer tasting)

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  Coffee break

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  A very bustling cafe indeed

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  Had a walk at Marienplatz Christmas Market.
  Totally love the very festive vibes

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This ended our first day in Munich 💕