On The Move!!: November 2012

Today we took the hop on/ hop off bus around Munich. Started around the train station at Hauptbaunhof and first stop was at the Palace of Nymphenburg - a baroque palace that was the summer residence for the rulers of Bavaria. I'd like to have a house like this! Then off to the BMW factory. The factory showroom was in an architecturally beautiful building and we got to see a lot of very cool cars. Andy had a great time checking out the cars there. We didn't have time to see the BMW museum....next time. Then we went to Olympic Park - the site of the 1972 Olympics. We walked past the swim center (where Mark Spitz got all of his gold medals) and the Olympic stadium and Olympic tower. I'm sure it was amazing with all of the athletes and spectators when it was new - as it still is quite beautiful. We then headed back toward the main part of town, past the English Garden, the Opera house, Residence Museum, Old City Hall....eventually getting off at a Medieval Christmas market where we had lunch after looking at all the different booths selling things from knives to ornaments to dirndls and leiderhosen. It was a short walk to more modern shopping and we walked up and down the streets looking at all of the stores and then into the English Gardens (where we saw the river surfers). Eventually we headed back to take a bus to Marienplatz. From there we went to the Steif toy museum, more walking to take in the sites there and eventually ended up at dinner. It was an awesome day overall (though my feet are really tired).

Olympic Stadium

BMW museum

Andy in the Mini Cooper

and another

antoher mini cooper

a really mini BMW (seems like a death trap to me)

an electric BMW

BMW showroom

Olympic tower

Olympic swimhalle

Olympic park

shopping street

more shopping area

lunch - Schupfnudeln - noodles made from potatoes and meat (tasted way better than it looked)

where we bought lunch

after lunch had a crepe with nutella, chocolate and bananas - - yumm!!

Munich street

one of the Munich Christmas markets

chocolate bananas at the Xmas market

English garden

river in English garden

English garden

surfers on the river

furniture at Rochebobois

an architect desk...

Merienplatz

dolls at doll museum (just like my grandmother's - same creepy stares)

Andy's dinner -

my dinner (weiner schnitzel)

the restaurant where we ate

Nymphenburg Palace

Star lights for sale at Xmas market

This was a great restaurant

We arrived early in Munich after what felt like a relatively short flight. I remember feeling uncomfortable for several hours, but by the time we arrived that was a distant memory. We took the train to the city center and walked to our hotel. After checking in we walked to a nearby bierhalle and had dinner of sausages and potatoes and beer. Everyone there spoke mostly German, so we seemed a bit out of place. After dinner we walked around the Christmas market area - Andy had a gluhwein (hot spiced wine) and I had some lebkuchen ( reminding me of the lebkuchen that my great aunt Beda used to make). It was more fun and festive because it was snowing!! Looking forward to exploring Munich tomorrow.