Saturday, December 10, 2016: Munich bus & walking tour, Bavarian Museum
After a leisurely breakfast in the hotel, we start the day with a guided bus tour outside of the old town of Munich including the 1972 Olympic grounds and a stop at the Nyphemburg Palace, the summer home of the House of Wittelsbach, the former rulers of Bavaria.
The water in the canals leading to the Nymphenburg palace are a little stiff indicative of the cool spell over much of Europe.
However, it has been beautiful while we have been in Munich with temperatures in the 50s, bright sunshine and no wind. It is definitely light jacket, no hat and no gloves weather.
After stopping by the Residenz, the winter home of the Wittelsbach family near old town Munich
Beverly rubs the lions nose for good luck.
We tour the Gothic Church of Our Lady - the Frauenkirche with its two onion-domed towers.
As we make our way through Marianplatz on our way to lunch, we resort to using what we have avoided so far on the entire trip, the guide holding up an identification marker, the clear sign of a large group. However, the Christmas market in Marianplatz is very busy on this second Saturday before Christmas and David takes up the Road Scholar flag
and then passes it our friend, Chick.
A view back at the Rathaus (new city hall)
as we head to lunch at Zum Spockmeier
where we dine on noodle soup,
Munich white veal sausages and pretzels and
chocolate mousse with a ground cherries.
Delicious.
Afternoon and evening is "leisure time" where we first walk by the surfers (yes, in December) on the "river" near the Englisher Garden and
the visit the Bavarian Museum
to see a very interesting collection of nativity scenes.
Following the museum, an argument erupts on what to do and where to go next.
We opt for visiting the Christmas market at the Residenz
with large crowds, an oom-pah band and, of course, gluwein.
After stopping by the hotel, we utilize Rick Steves and Open Table to find a great Italian restaurant very near our hotel where we are the only English-speakers present, appear to have offended the hostess by using Open Table, get rolled eyes when we ask for the English-language menu and, nevertheless, have a great meal and time together
dining on shrimp scampi and
schnitzel and potatoes (Germans never have noodles with schnitzel) and
and sip limoncello.
Our last full day on the trip is tomorrow. It has been absolutely great and it has gone fast. See you tomorrow.
The water in the canals leading to the Nymphenburg palace are a little stiff indicative of the cool spell over much of Europe.
However, it has been beautiful while we have been in Munich with temperatures in the 50s, bright sunshine and no wind. It is definitely light jacket, no hat and no gloves weather.
After stopping by the Residenz, the winter home of the Wittelsbach family near old town Munich
Beverly rubs the lions nose for good luck.
We tour the Gothic Church of Our Lady - the Frauenkirche with its two onion-domed towers.
As we make our way through Marianplatz on our way to lunch, we resort to using what we have avoided so far on the entire trip, the guide holding up an identification marker, the clear sign of a large group. However, the Christmas market in Marianplatz is very busy on this second Saturday before Christmas and David takes up the Road Scholar flag
and then passes it our friend, Chick.
A view back at the Rathaus (new city hall)
as we head to lunch at Zum Spockmeier
where we dine on noodle soup,
Munich white veal sausages and pretzels and
chocolate mousse with a ground cherries.
Delicious.
Afternoon and evening is "leisure time" where we first walk by the surfers (yes, in December) on the "river" near the Englisher Garden and
the visit the Bavarian Museum
to see a very interesting collection of nativity scenes.
Following the museum, an argument erupts on what to do and where to go next.
We opt for visiting the Christmas market at the Residenz
with large crowds, an oom-pah band and, of course, gluwein.
After stopping by the hotel, we utilize Rick Steves and Open Table to find a great Italian restaurant very near our hotel where we are the only English-speakers present, appear to have offended the hostess by using Open Table, get rolled eyes when we ask for the English-language menu and, nevertheless, have a great meal and time together
dining on shrimp scampi and
schnitzel and potatoes (Germans never have noodles with schnitzel) and
and sip limoncello.
Our last full day on the trip is tomorrow. It has been absolutely great and it has gone fast. See you tomorrow.
Comments
Post a Comment