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Look closely at this decorated May Pole, and instead of townspeople, merchants and animals, you see doctors, nurses and hospital beds. This is in the courtyard of the Klinikum, where we all met for our outing to Starnberger See, a lake near Munich. We bunched up into groups of 6, received a Metro ticket from… Continue reading Wednesday–Munich’s Starnberger See
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We connected from LAX through Heathrow to Munich. Uneventful, except that I was smarter this time and packed us a lunch to eat instead of relying on their (icky) food. Travel Story: The couple in front of us, older than us by about twenty years we figure, seemed mighty uncomfortable on the plane. She got… Continue reading Strolling Around Munich
Let's talk food: Munich, specifically. Given the readership of this blog, that shouldn't be too hard, as you all like food and partake in it daily. We come downstairs the first day and this sign, hanging over the fresh breads section, is an invitation. We accept, and proceed to our nice day, by starting here.… Continue reading Menu from Munich
We begin the day in the area near our hotel, strolling along Printzregentstrasse. This photo was taken near the UBahn stop, near the Printzregentheater. (I love how they string all their words together--reminds me of some of my English students. I used to think they needed correcting; now I know they're merely part German.) We… Continue reading Remembrance of Things Past
The Residenz was the Royal Family's residence, the place where they hung out for hundreds of years until the Allies (that was us--sad faces, please) bombed it to smithereens in a few hours one day, in order to Do What We Had To Do. The German pamphlets are very nice about this fact, and never… Continue reading The Residenz
The Theatine Church, or Theatinerkirche St. Kajetan, is a glowing yellow church with black accents just across from The Residenz. Royal Ferdinand built it in 1662 as an honor and thanks because his wife produced an heir to the Bavarian Crown. Most men would have just brought a bouquet of flowers and her favorite chocolates,… Continue reading Theatine Church (Theatinerkirche)
Monday we begin a wild-goose chase for some wood carvings. All I'll say about that is we had a nice bus ride in the middle of the day which brought us to the Deutsches Museum, Munich's equivalent of the Exploratorium and Smithsonian's Science and Industry Museums mashed together. The guidebook says it's the largest museum… Continue reading Monday, Monday in Munich
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Dave and I breakfast together, then he leaves and I linger over the paper and posting our travels on the blog. I do the tourist laundry thing (rinsing out underwear in the sink, rolling it up in the towels, snapping out the moisture and hanging it over hangers in the closet so the maid won't… Continue reading Tuesday’s Travels in Munich
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