What is München???

When arriving in Munich the first thing I thought was "what the heck is München?" little did I know, this is what the Germans call Munich. So really, us Americans are saying it all wrong. (Oh and yes, I had to google search and copy paste that u with the umlaut.)

Munich was amazing! The first morning we woke up in Munich, we caught the metro to the Merianplatz where the town hall and other monuments are located. We wondered the streets, following a Rick Steves route of course, and vistited several churches as well as the Munich history museum. We took a short break at the famous Hofbräuhaus beer garden for a refreshment before we were off again, this time to the Residenz which is the old palace where the Bavarian royalty once lived. But we didn't take a tour of the inside until a couple of day later when we returned to the city to cover the things we missed on the first day.

After working up an apatite exploring the city, we sat down for a traditional meal of beer and sausages at a local restaurant near the Frauenkirche. Their signature sausages were very delicious! I would definitely go there again.

Two day later, when we returned to Munich, we spent most of the day touring the city by bike. Actually we stuck mostly to the English Gardens because the city streets were a bit scary for inexperience bikers. The gardens were really more like a huge park with lakes, rivers, winding paths and even some surfers near the man made dams in the streams! We stopped along the way to check out the beer gardens along the way.

We returned to the city center later to see the Residenz which was extremely beautiful on the inside. There had to be over one hundred rooms to peruse. I think it would take several days to really pay attention to all of the small details. We, unfortunately, had to breeze through it in about an hour and a half because it was going to close.

After our royal tour, we returned to the same little square near the Frauenkirche for dinner again, this time at a different restaurant were we had another traditional German meal and shared a table with a group of very nice Germans and two American girls who were also traveling for their Easter holiday. I had duck for the first time, and it was absolutely delicious! I think one of my favorite parts about visiting Germany was the food!


With love, from Lausanne

Mindy