June 28th
Today’s schedule was going to be a little less busy since
Irene and Brian only had half a day to spend in Munich before they had to
return to Heidelberg. We all ate
breakfast together and then headed out to the Nymphenburg Palace and Park.
Conveniently Nymphenburg was not too far away so we were
able to walk there but it was warm out so we had to stop to get ice cream along
the way. We took our time walking
through the park, took a few pictures and Alex shared with us some of the
history of the palace and royal family that used to reside in it. Actually the royal family still does live
there, in one of the wings of the palace of which is off limits for
tours. Then we continued on out of the
park to a nearby beer garden where we were going to meet with Ines and Georg
for some lunch.
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Irene, Brian & Ines at Augustiner Beer Garden |
The Nymphenburg palace is very large and very
beautiful. I purchased a ticket to have
access to all of the exhibits, starting with the main palace itself. The entrance hall was stunning and the
remainder of the halls and rooms were also a lot of fun to try and imagine
people actually living there. One of my
favorite rooms was called the Gallery of Beauties. King Ludwig I was an avid girl-watcher and
had paintings made of some 36 women whom he deemed to be the prettiest women in all of Bavaria. Then I also strolled through
the exhibit that displayed the carriages and the works of the ceramics
factory. After that I wandered around
the garden and took a look inside the hunting lodge and a chapel.
In the late afternoon I returned to Alex’s parents house and
socialized with them in their garden while enjoying the nice weather. We made our way back inside, ate some dinner
and then Alex and I left for the city center to meet up with some of his high
school friends who were visiting in Munich.
We hung out by the river until the sun had long set. Alex and I returned to his house pretty late.
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