Friedrichshafen in Circles

I walked alot today. Turned out after all that hassle getting here yesterday the walk to the island is a total

piece of cake, I'm not paying for the bus again!
I went into town by way of the train bridge and saw a new part of the island this morning. Once I'd made it around to the harbor side of town I decided to sit down and have breakfast. Americanisch style.
People that serve breakfast have options. Small Medium Large. American, Bavarian, Mediterranean etc. its fun. When I ate breakfast with Sabine and Marcus in Limburg (a blog entry I've yet to make) we ate the
large breakfast. Scrambled eggs, bread, spreads, meat and cheese. Today I debated...the Bavarian breakfast consists of pretzel, weisswurst (sausage) and .5L beer. No joke. I knew I'd be sleeping in my chair after that so I went with the American Breakfast today. Eggs sunny side up, covered in a crisscross of bacon and hotdogs, a side of bread and some butter and jam. It was so good! Gotta say, I love bacon, so finally having some american style bacon really made my day.
After that massive meal I walked around a bit and realized that since its a holiday in Germany NONE of the shops were open. I mean, why make money on a day when thousands of additional visitors were in town? Call me crazy! So after only being able to window shop I sat down and thought about what to do next. I'd seen the island almost entirely. I'd paid money to see Bregenz Austria so I headed back to the train station and found I could go visit another little village by train for really cheap so off I went for 4.25 Euro to Friedrichshafen. Cute place. So busy there today! Its another town on the lake. Also closed for the holiday (restaurants are still open, don't get me wrong) so before I realized that attractions like castles were closed also i walked to the far end of the harbor to go see the Schloss there. Yep, gated up tight. Ugh. Nice walk along the lake though. Lots of crazy people in that town.
I circled back around to the staircase that you can climb up and have a view out from. It was really cool, kinda swayed in the breeze, which was a little weird feeling, but hey, could have been I was swaying from having climbed those stairs too, hehe.
I made another lap around the town trying to find the train station, I needed to get on the train at a different station than i got off of so it was a struggle. Especially as the tourist office was also closed. I mean, why help thousands of extra tourists get around  your city? Weird! I guess they deserve a holiday too? Not if it means wandering around an extra hour on my part it doesn't. ;)
By the time I got back to Lindau I had food on my mind again (don't worry this was HOURS later) so I found a cheap Thai place that made really good food fresh to order and was cheap too! Fun. Its kinda scary Asian restaurant style from the outside so people don't give it a chance but the meal was really good.

I bought a cheap beer at a snack shack and sat at the harbor and watched the people. That is a lot of fun, there are some crazy people wandering around Lindau!
Just as I walked back to the hostel (hell on earth) the thunder came and then the rain. I literally walked in just in time for it to start pouring rain! Phew!
Tomorrow I head back to Tubingen to have more of an official wander around the city according to their guide. Maybe beg for a job...I really want to stay in Germany!