So, tomorrow is my last day here (I leave early Thursday morning)! I won't have any time to do anything but work and head to Frankfurt, so today I went to the former royal palace, called the Residenz. It was very pretty, please see the photos on my flickr.
Then I had some beer (ok, 2 litres is 'some' here), some sausage, some sauerkraut, and some pretzels. I just had to get a little bit more on the last real day (:

I wondered exactly how much of an honor system the subway was here, since there are no ticket takers or even stiles. You take a ticket mostly because you know you should. Also, however, they have well-disguised checkers who came and had to take away an american fellow sitting a few seats ahead of me! Apparently he tried to argue, tsk tsk.

I've spent a good amount of time pondering the language barrier. I've gotten by here by politely using what German I could, or working with their broken english when that failed. Only once or twice did I come across someone with genuinely no english who didn't seem to understand my german (doesn't speak well for my fluency, haha). We got by with hand signs.
I imagine that must be how people do it in countries with stronger language barriers, such as mainland china. I wonder how business transactions like hotel rentals work...

Suggestions for my next trip?