Bavaria: Beer Capital of the World
Trip Start
Oct 06, 2009
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Trip End
Oct 13, 2009
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Sunday, October 11, 2009
We walked back to the hotel and read for a short while before going sound asleep. The bed is just awesome.
We awoke at 7:30 this morning and I'm waiting for Joanne to finish dressing so we can go to breakfast. Due to our time constraints we decided to book a "hop on, hop off" tour today. It’s a narrated tour that will take us to the places I wanted to go in a double-decker bus and allow us to get off at any of the stops and resume the tour when another bus come by. They arrive on a 20-minute schedule.
1030: Now, that was a breakfast. We just came back from the hotel breakfast restaurant. I had ham, cheese , and salami on a roll; salmon; sausage; scrambled eggs, cereal, fruit, orange juice and coffee. We thought breakfast was included with our room, so we were really impressed with the layout until we got the bill…€30.
Now I’m ready for our tour.
1900: We just got back from the tour. It wasn’t quite as good as I had expected, but it was worthwhile. We got off the bus at Marienplatz and walked to the Rathaus (City Hall) where we took pictures and looked at the Glockenspiel and at the towers on Frauenkirche. I learned that one of the towers being shorter than the other was the result of an architecht’s mistake. He must have been soo proud!
We saw the creek that’s been created by one of the gates to the city and pumps water so fast that people surf on it. I had heard about this, but what I learned today is that it’s illegal to surf on it; they just don’t seem to be able to enforce that law.
We saw the other usual attractions, like the legislature building, the building where Hitler signed papers with Mussolini (that building is now a school of music), the Olympic Park and tower and Nymphenburger Schloss, the summer palace.
We had lunch at the Hofbräuhaus and watched the brass band. We met a nice young man from Hungary over lunch. He’s visiting friends of his wife and was lunching alone while she and her friends went shopping. He currently lives in Switzerland and is a bond broker; so we had a good conversation with him about offshore accounts, the economy, politics and relative costs between Europe and the USA.
I’m going down to the front desk to get them to print out our plane tickets for tomorrow. Sadly, this will be our last night in Europe. On the other hand, we’re getting quite anxious to see our pets and our friends again.
