A Walk Through Munich

June 27^th

L>R Irene, Brian, Me, Georg, Alex

Alex took a night train from Hamburg and arrived around 7-8 in the morning in Munich.  When he arrived we were able to have a classic Bavarian breakfast, boiled Weisswurst (white sausage) with honey mustard, a pretzel and weissbier (wheat beer).  I have had this breakfast a few times now, thanks to my sister and it has become one of my favorite meals.  We all sat around the table and after proper cheers, we dug into our meals.  Funny thing is we changed our beer glasses three times before finding the right ones for the meal.  Prost!

Michael Jackson Memorial

Now that our bellies were full of weisswurst it was time of our tour of the city to began.  Alex as our tour guide brought us to the city center to begin.  On the way to the center we stopped by the Michael Jackson Memorial which is located in front of a hotel he would stay at.  Then we moved onto the city center, passed the New Town Hall building with the glockenspiel and then continued on to St. Peter’s Church where we climbed its bell tower to get a good view of the city.  Climbing the tower was bit of a hassle because there was hardly enough room for people to be both ascending and descending its stairs at the same time.  Once we finally got down from the tower we headed to the famous Hofbrauhaus.

Me and Alex with Masses at Hofbrauhaus

The Hofbrauhaus was very busy since it was lunch time which cause us some trouble finding a place to sit and eat even with its 5,000 person capacity.  There were many people dressed up in the lederhosen and dirndls and a live band was playing there as well.  We sat down and ordered Masses (1 liter beers) and bought a few pretzels (from a cute pretzel girl).  After polishing off our glasses it was time to continue on our tour.

We quickly passed through part of the Residenz (place of residence of the royal family of Bavaria) and made our way toward the English Garden to watch a very unique sport, river surfing.  After watching the surfers for a bit we all started to get a bit sleepy so we opted for some coffee at a local café.  Next we headed off to the Olympic Center where an X sports biking competition was going on.  We watched a few bikers take a go through the course and then continued on to the carnival to have some dinner. 

River Surfing

We returned back to Ines and Georg’s house to rest and enjoy some wine and share with them what we had experience on our busy day.