It's a monster!

After sleeping a bit later in the morning, we woke up and noticed the weather looking omnious. Dark clouds were in the sky as we set out to the autobahn towards north. When we started driving, we still were checking accomodations in two towns near to each other: Osnabrück and Münster. I really wasn't impressed for the options in former in the 60-80 euro price range so I thought Münster might be better option. So we decided to head out there.

Rainy autobahn

Soon the rain was over us and we were driving in moderate to heavy rain. However the traffic flow was quite good until about 25 kilometers from Münster when we hit the worst stau yet. It was basically four lanes merging into one due to construction work. We crawled maybe half an hour for to proceed few hundred meters. Then we did the unthinkable and changed to right lane that was pretty much empty. It was the lane for other motorway to merge into ours. However by doing that we probably saved good half an hour of crawling and it seemed we didn't upset too many fellow drivers by doing that.

When arriving Münster outskirts the weather had mostly cleared up. We ate a Burger King in some Münster suburb and then drove in to city center and sat down by the cathedral. There we finally decided that we will reserve a room at Hotel Windsor some 3 kilometers from the city center, as it was in our price range (and offered free wlan) and had got decent reviews. Few moments later we arrived and frankly at the reception I thought that we have made a big mistake reserving this one as the reception space looked shabby and smelled musty. However the room itself turned out to be quite big, clean and nicely furnished (bath tub in bathroom). The owner at the reception seemed a very nice person and made us feel welcome. It definitely seems that we got a good deal concerning this room. For 75 euros and internet included we could have done much worse.

After resting in the room for a while we headed out to Münster city center by taking a local bus. We walked aroud in the center for some time and then sat down at a restaurant terrace near the main cathedral. Had couple of beers (especially Berliner Weisse which actaully is some sort of nice tasting fruit flavored beer). We also ate a light butter roll sausage which was really good and cheap. After around 9 pm we decided to head back to hotel. The city had already gone to night bus mode and we couldn't get the correct bus totally figured out, so we took taxi which cost us not too bad 7,40 euros.

Tomorrow we'll be heading back up north again, we're aiming at Kiel or some other nearby city.