Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Monday July 04, 2005
So today was going to be my main sightseeing day in Munich. I walked into the main square in the Altstadt, Marienplatz, and joined a three-hour walking tour. Among the sites I saw were:
Marienplatz:
The Neues Rathaus (New Town Hall... it's only 100 years old) and the Glockenspiel:
The Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady... built in a mere 20 years... some 600 years ago):
The Isar River in the Englischer Garten:
They have a cool permanent wave set up in the river where surfers get to try and strut their stuff:
And some Bavarian government buildings (Munich is the capital city of the state of Bavaria):
Here's a picture of the Hofbräuhaus, which I was drinking at the night before. The window on the second floor of the beer hall is somewhat infamous... it's where Hitler delivered his first public speech in 1919):
And the Maypole in the Vikutalienmarkt:
After the tour I had lunch and a beer in the beer garden there with some people from the tour. I then wandered around for a while by myself. I wandered into a toy store and found a full display of excellent German board games (the Germans produce the best board games on the planet) and, some Märklin trains. If you ever took the Real Time Programming Course at Waterloo, you might have some lingering nightmares featuring these trains:
I went back to the hotel for a rest and recharge before venturing out again for a Beer and Brewery walking tour. On my way to the tour I got caught in a surprise wind and rain storm that came out of the Alps and into the city with a fury! The storm didn't last very long, but the rain kept on drizzling for about four days. Boo..
The brewery tour lasted about three hours and was pretty cool. We toured a microbrewery and several beer gardens. I had dinner at the microbrewery. They had a buffet with klusen... mmmmmm klusen...... At the microbrewery we got to sample several styles of beer... a normal lager, a light wheat beer, and a dark wheat beer:
The beer tour ended up back at the famous Hofbräuhaus. Second time in two nights!
Most of the people from the tour left after the first beer, but a couple of people stayed on... they were Doug and Lynette from Charlotte, North Carolina. These people were awesome!
On my way home, while I was walking through the rainy streets of Munich, I saw an interesting statue... it was interesting because I had seen it before. This statue was EXACTLY the same as the boar statue in front of the Modern Languages building at the University of Waterloo. What's up with that?
Marienplatz:
The Neues Rathaus (New Town Hall... it's only 100 years old) and the Glockenspiel:
The Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady... built in a mere 20 years... some 600 years ago):
The Isar River in the Englischer Garten:
They have a cool permanent wave set up in the river where surfers get to try and strut their stuff:
And some Bavarian government buildings (Munich is the capital city of the state of Bavaria):
Here's a picture of the Hofbräuhaus, which I was drinking at the night before. The window on the second floor of the beer hall is somewhat infamous... it's where Hitler delivered his first public speech in 1919):
And the Maypole in the Vikutalienmarkt:
After the tour I had lunch and a beer in the beer garden there with some people from the tour. I then wandered around for a while by myself. I wandered into a toy store and found a full display of excellent German board games (the Germans produce the best board games on the planet) and, some Märklin trains. If you ever took the Real Time Programming Course at Waterloo, you might have some lingering nightmares featuring these trains:
I went back to the hotel for a rest and recharge before venturing out again for a Beer and Brewery walking tour. On my way to the tour I got caught in a surprise wind and rain storm that came out of the Alps and into the city with a fury! The storm didn't last very long, but the rain kept on drizzling for about four days. Boo..
The brewery tour lasted about three hours and was pretty cool. We toured a microbrewery and several beer gardens. I had dinner at the microbrewery. They had a buffet with klusen... mmmmmm klusen...... At the microbrewery we got to sample several styles of beer... a normal lager, a light wheat beer, and a dark wheat beer:
The beer tour ended up back at the famous Hofbräuhaus. Second time in two nights!
Most of the people from the tour left after the first beer, but a couple of people stayed on... they were Doug and Lynette from Charlotte, North Carolina. These people were awesome!
On my way home, while I was walking through the rainy streets of Munich, I saw an interesting statue... it was interesting because I had seen it before. This statue was EXACTLY the same as the boar statue in front of the Modern Languages building at the University of Waterloo. What's up with that?
# posted by Rob Szumlakowski @ 3:00 p.m. 
