05 JUL - Flats in the Belfry - (Day 28)
Today was kind of the capstone of our Germany tourism. Munich is in the heart of Bavaria. When most people think of German culture, they think of Bavarian culture. This is where the traditional dress is lederhosen. In addition, this is where the yearly Oktoberfest is held.
We started our trip by going downtown to Marienplatz. This is where a very famous clock tower is. It's called the Glockenspiel. At 11:00, 12:00 and 17:00, it plays an elaborate show. Here is a shot of the clock tower and also picture of the clock tower and beautiful statue in the middle of the square.
As we were watching the Glockenspiel, I noticed that some of the bells were out of tune. It's kind of surprising.
I did see Spike Lee in the crowd though. He was alone which seemed odd. If he wasn't Spike Lee then he was a very good impersonator.
After the performance at the Marienplatz, we went to the local department store, Kaufhof, for some shopping. I wanted to pick-up CDs of the songs that we had been hearing on the radio. I'd like to make a DVD collage of our photos including music. I was able to find all of the songs but one. I have to tell you. Zaccheus is a shopping master. I think that she has found gifts for everyone on her Christmas list in the last 2 days.
Next, we started walking toward the locatin of the bus tours. Since we didn't have a lot of time to find the highlights ourselves this seemed like a good thing to do. As we were walking we saw several painted lions. I think that Munich did the same sort of fund-raising thing that a lot of cities have done but they did it with lions.
Just across from the bus was the Palace of Justice. I thought that it looked more like the Hall of Justice. Any minute, I expected Aquaman to come running out of the front and sending out those sounds waves to the whales in the river.
The bus tour was very nice. Munich has so many different sites. There are very historic buildings and very new art buildings. It's all very impressive.
These arches were built by father of King Ludwig II. It must be nice to have enough money to build something like that.
This very intimidating building is for the top college students in Munich. They are provided housing, spending money and new shoes every year.
After the bus tour, we made our way to another of Munich's landmarks, Hofbrauhaus. HB is one of the main beer makers during Oktoberfest. Zaccheus and I decided to take the train back towards HB and Rocco and Tah Dah took a taxi. I thought that we could beat them but we got lost once we got off the train.
HB was full of Portugal fans. Of course, they were celebrating their win the previous night. This nice French fan had the moxy to walk through the crowd and shsh the crowd.
Here are couple of photos of one of the rooms in HB.
Here is a picture of your jolly host to prove that I was really there!
After our jolly adventures in Munich, we made our way to Weimar. Rocco decided to cut his vacation short so we had to swing through Weimar to gather his stuff. He was going to fly out of Frankfurt at the same time as the girls.
Beginning a long day,
Knuckles
We started our trip by going downtown to Marienplatz. This is where a very famous clock tower is. It's called the Glockenspiel. At 11:00, 12:00 and 17:00, it plays an elaborate show. Here is a shot of the clock tower and also picture of the clock tower and beautiful statue in the middle of the square.
As we were watching the Glockenspiel, I noticed that some of the bells were out of tune. It's kind of surprising.
I did see Spike Lee in the crowd though. He was alone which seemed odd. If he wasn't Spike Lee then he was a very good impersonator.
After the performance at the Marienplatz, we went to the local department store, Kaufhof, for some shopping. I wanted to pick-up CDs of the songs that we had been hearing on the radio. I'd like to make a DVD collage of our photos including music. I was able to find all of the songs but one. I have to tell you. Zaccheus is a shopping master. I think that she has found gifts for everyone on her Christmas list in the last 2 days.
Next, we started walking toward the locatin of the bus tours. Since we didn't have a lot of time to find the highlights ourselves this seemed like a good thing to do. As we were walking we saw several painted lions. I think that Munich did the same sort of fund-raising thing that a lot of cities have done but they did it with lions.
Just across from the bus was the Palace of Justice. I thought that it looked more like the Hall of Justice. Any minute, I expected Aquaman to come running out of the front and sending out those sounds waves to the whales in the river.
The bus tour was very nice. Munich has so many different sites. There are very historic buildings and very new art buildings. It's all very impressive.
These arches were built by father of King Ludwig II. It must be nice to have enough money to build something like that.
This very intimidating building is for the top college students in Munich. They are provided housing, spending money and new shoes every year.
After the bus tour, we made our way to another of Munich's landmarks, Hofbrauhaus. HB is one of the main beer makers during Oktoberfest. Zaccheus and I decided to take the train back towards HB and Rocco and Tah Dah took a taxi. I thought that we could beat them but we got lost once we got off the train.
HB was full of Portugal fans. Of course, they were celebrating their win the previous night. This nice French fan had the moxy to walk through the crowd and shsh the crowd.
Here are couple of photos of one of the rooms in HB.
Here is a picture of your jolly host to prove that I was really there!
After our jolly adventures in Munich, we made our way to Weimar. Rocco decided to cut his vacation short so we had to swing through Weimar to gather his stuff. He was going to fly out of Frankfurt at the same time as the girls.
Beginning a long day,
Knuckles
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