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Munich!
... has the famous glockenspiel and the Old Town Hall that was completely destroyed in WWII and rebuilt. Just of Marienplatz is St. Peter's. Church. We decided to climb the 306 steps, much of it two-way traffic on a one-lane staircase, to the top of the tower to get an overview of the city. You can also climb the the glockenspiel in the New Town Hall or the tower at the Frauenkirche for great views. But we decided we wanted a view of the ...
If you call one wolf, you invite the pack...
Bryony and I decided we would do a walking tour to orientate ourselves with the city, and it was free plus tips so we were already onto a winner! We started chatting to Neal and Ben, two American guys doing internships in London through their Uni in Pittsburgh. We chatted to them, an Aussie guy from Melbourne and a Canadian guy from Vancouver for the walk up to the meeting point. Bryony and especially me had bigged up Munich quite a lot so were ...
The Beginning...
... accents. A short stroll away was a park between two rivers, walking paths, historic, beautiful churches, and sunbathers on beaches of shale. As we walked back to the hotel, we stopped at Pizza Express for supper where there were long slabs of pizza beckoning us from the window.
Now for a nice, long nights rest, then we are off to Salzburg, Austria in the morning.
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Working Out Our Stein-Holding Muscles
... we had ever eaten! We picked those suckers to the bone. Yum! During dinner, we contemplated how people in Munich must have super strong arm muscles because those steins are heavy! Caroline resorted to holding hers with both hands.
After an awesome and exhausting day, we headed back to the hostel and went to bed on the earlier side, anticipating our morning train out to Vienna the next morning. We will certainly miss those relaxing beer gardens! Bye for now!
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My Return to Munich!
... to a reletively small chamber that had a walled-off altar and a few rows of pews. Once again, this did not seem like the kind of church where kings would be buried. Something we noticed that was very interesting, was that in the four nooks in the room were real human skulls. I have no idea why they were there but that is certainly not something that many churches in the US can have. Unfortunately that room doesn't seem to be in ...