cycling in Germany?

[shootingstar]

Which areas/towns do you hope to visit in the Munich region?

I haven't attempted to learn any German. Guess my partner's German didn't get passed over to me ..even though we've been together for over 17 yrs.

So I was lazy and relied on dearie. He can read very basic German and speak /understand German (better than I can speak/understand my Chinese). Though the German bike maps that he got were very helpful (gives more options and details), it was occasionally still necessary to ask any local when we would cycle into the smaller German towns to know which street, turn, etc. Some of the Germans he encountered did speak English, not all.

Surprisingly he used German in Strasbourg, France (when French wasn't getting either of us far), Prague and Copenhagen occasionally for latter 2 cities. He always gave a choice of language for the speakers in terms of the their comfort level.

In terms of the food (and knowing difference between kuchen and torte), I didn't realize how much I had absorbed from dearie and his family (food, as well as knowledge) about southern German cuisine until I went there. I was as particular as he was, in terms of quality.

I also underestimated what I absorbed from working for a German company for a few years and having German employees (straight from Germany) working in my dept. how much I had learned: many German lakes are overfished, very little large wildlife left (no wonder why they love Canadian/US wilderness), many young Germans now learn English (it is mandatory up to a certain grade level, like French is for Canadian children), there is an annual tax to own a car (at least in several southern German municipalities), etc.

So no, I don't know German language (except I can distinguish German sounding tongue from Czech, Russian, Polish, etc.), but had some 'cultural' feel for Germany already by the time I got there.