Hey Lager, I really appreciate all your advice. I'm really more of a smaller, scenic sightseer than big bustling tourist cities. When I was in Alaska I haaaated the big cities filled with tourists. Even on the Cruise ship I always felt uncomfortable in the areas where there were a lot of people and would go find a sunny chair way off from the main area and chill by myself looking at the passing islands and reading a book while drinking a beer.
My favorite part of Alaska was white water rapids/float ride where it was just me + 6 other people floating down a river in nature for an hour+
I'm way more interested in places like Tuscany (I'd love to visit the place from Assassin's Creed II that is your home base, Monte~something), and Lake Chiemsee than some place like Rome since it's June and tourist season and I've heard of the tourist chaos of big cities like Rome or Venice where it's hard to even get around and smells from all the trash.
Paris would be cool, but I dunno, I feel like 1 day would be way too short. From what I read, yeah flying anywhere from Munich is like a 5-6 hour affair because of getting to the airport and checking in and same on the other side. London again would be too big for 1 day. I'd rather do Munich/Nuremburg as the big cities this time around, and then check out scenic smaller cities like in Austria as well as romantic road castles and lakes and palaces.
I'm fairly anti-social and to me an ideal world is Red Dead Redemption x Stalker (without the radiation). I love architecture the most, especially when there's no people around and it's just a beautiful building and me. I really enjoy history of places and how they came to be. I also love natural scenery, green fields, lakes, grass, rivers. After that I love food and high technology (bullet trains, video games, 4k TVs and such). It's why Japan's my favorite place since it has gorgeous nature, awesome technology, amazing food and tons of rich history.
I'd love to check out the Sistene Chapel and Big Ben, but I have a feeling seeing them packed side by side with hundreds of tourist would just stress me out and make me want to gtfo as fast as possible. I like to wander off on foot and basically go where there aren't many people (rural) and just mind my own business and enjoy the fresh air and take photos.
So yeah, still not totally sold on anywhere besides Munich and the local area. I'm open to flying somewhere, but it'll be a 5-6 hour trek each way and I'll only have about 24 hours (8 sleeping, so 16 hours) to explore any distant location unless I took 3+ days, but I already have my hotel fully booked for 9 nights in Munich, so ideally I'd only like to double dip for a single night somewhere if I did an overnight trip.
Plus I love trains because, yeah, the scenery is super pretty and I like seeing the world that's out there and not the focus of any tourist trap. I'd rent a car and go driving in France or Germany except the thought of driving in a country where I have no idea what the traffic rules are scares the crap out of me so I'll stick to public transportation and walking.
