Eisbach Munich

Day 45 - Prague to Munich
After
jumping on the train from Prague, we were on our way to Munich (a 6
hour trip) in those little cabins you see in the movies. Along the
way there was some very good scenery, rivers and countryside,
although the train was stinking hot was still a good ride. Our hotel
was right opposite the main …

All right, so after deciding to get some food and beer last night, over sleep, Shannon and I retired to the quiet piano room where no one had been for hours. My mission, to show Shannon the awesome that is Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog. A ha ha haaa... Yet another successful conversion to Whedon fandom. Only downer was that just as we started, a …

... bridges, 50-60 species of bird living there, and there are three streams that flow through this garden, the Schwanbinger Bach, Eisbach, and Oberstjägermeisterbach. Mary and I stayed there for a while and then headed back on the U-Bahn towards our ...

... to the northernmost rim of the city. People were playing football, frisbee, horse riding, even cricket and surfing on the Eisbach river. As i walked around i saw the pagodas, and even the Monopteros. It was so much fun and i interacted with so ...

... (it can serve thousands), and the coolest thing I've ever seen in a city park...surfing. Europe's largest public metropolitan park actually has an area where people can surf the rapids of Eisbach which is a river that flows artifically through the ...

... , which was very crowded, people, dogs, bikes...! A lot of goodlooking people to look at in Munich! The stream that runs through this park is called Eisbach (=icestream) and I can tell you, the name is well deserved: the water is freezing cold! But ...

... the Englischer gardens to see the surfers (yes, surfers, surfing on an artificially generated standing wave in the fast flowing Eisbach river).  And we  toured the impressive Treasury at the Residenz (ex Bavarian Royal palace) which, like the ...

... museum. Picasso's "Guernica" once was exhibited there. How would Picasso feel, knowing that? "Guernica' was his response to Germany's relentless and unnecessary bombing of Guernica. To be housed in a former Nazi museum? Poetic justice I suppose because ...

... Since we last talked we were headed to Munich and since we have also been to Venice and are now in Florence. Here is our Munich,Germany re-cap. We were in Munich from the Sunday afternoon 6/6 until Monday night 6/8. We would first like to say that Munich ...

... dance. Too charming!  After dropping the bike I stopped for a very bad glass of wine, unfortunately all to common in Germany, and I noticed that the Xeroxed brochure I had picked up at the church cost 50 cents. I didn’t see ...

... Charlie the entire length of the Isar river through the city of Munich, only to be surprised when there was no surfers because the Eisbach river's water has been shut. Now I must focus on the task at hand which is completing the plans of ...

... get home due to the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud - in the days we were there the news reports showed it coming over Northern Germany and some flights were cancelled. We booked an alternative overground route 'just in case' but luckily it was fine when we ...