After our exhausting journey to Munich with the twelve year olds in tow, we took a little time to nap and read in the hostel and get our bearings in Munich. We watched the Madrid-Barcelona game that night and, what do you know, Madrid won!
On Thursday we went on a walking tour through Munich and we bumped into Stephanie along the way. Our tour guide was a very chatty guy and gave us a good refresher on a lot of WWI and WWII history that I have forgotten since high school. We started out at the New City Hall, where the Glockenspiel is, and after watching that (rated the second most overrated sight in Europe), we walked through the city and saw lots of WWII memorials, the Hofbrauhaus, the royal residency, a huge market with a beer garden, and a memorial to the German resistance. Munich is the birthplace of the Nazi party. The Nazi party held many meetings in the festival hall of the Hofbrauhaus and that is where the swastika was revealed. Munich has a lot of history with the Nazis because that is where it all started, but our tour guide really stressed that there is so much more to Munich than that, and there was!
Lucky lions. Lions are the symbol of Munich. There are four lions outside of the royal residence, but you can only touch 3 for good luck.
The festival hall in the Hofbrauhaus.
After our tour we had lunch at the market (I had a brat because there were no kasekrainers) and beers in the beer garden. The beer garden is owned by the city, so everyone can bring their own food and picnic. We sat next to some really friendly elderly Germans. Pretty much everyone there was a really friendly elderly German. After lunch, we wandered Munich for a while. For dinner we went to a really yummy Italian restaurant and ate some gigantic pizzas to celebrate our last night out on spring break and we made it back to the beer garden to finish off the night.
Finished our liter beers! A job well done.
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