Hotel-Pension Mariandl
Travel Blogs from Munich
Day 341: A nice Sunday
... quickly while telling someone else off. It was in black and white and was pretty to look at. The story was funny almost the whole way though, despite being pretty sad and desperate at almost all the same moments. As we watched the film, I noticed a lot of times where I wasn't laughing and everyone else was, even in moments that I was sure I understood the lines that were being delivered. Likewise, there were moments that I found much more funny than anyone else in the room. ...
Oktoberfest 2012
... to head to the celebration early in the afternoon in an attempt to beat the crowd! Two things wrong with that: you cannot beat the crowd because it is always crowded and there is nothing to worry about. The festival is literally 1000's of people sitting (sometimes standing) eating and drinking good beer by the "mass," or liter! All the planning and worrying about how we would survive was unnecessary!
We started the day with a tour of Weis'n grounds and ...
August 10
... square that I recognize the name of and are soon outside our front door. Early in means I can finally catch up on the blog as I have been several days behind for the last week. Hope you all appreciate the effort and if not, I am mostly having fun doing it anyway. Auf Wiedersehen. CNC Expenses 1.49E-4 pretzels for our biergarten experience 7E- beer 20.30E- Spare rib dinner and beer .84E- 2 ice cream pops 80E - Pension Miles Walked- 7.75 ...
Dacau
... There is a catholic memorial. The previous pope was Bavarian and he made sure there was a memorial. He also placed an order of Carmelite nuns next door. Their main activity is to pray. In this place of great evil I think that is important. Any survivor who returns has a bed in the convent. The three men who are responsible for the setting up and running of the sight are survivors of Dacau. One of the men (now over 90) regularly comes to the sight. ...
Four countries... One Day
... to Munich. Austria was beautiful, and the parts that we saw looked largely like Switzerland – green, clean, mountainous, pretty. We drove straight through onto Munich that afternoon as it is a city we really wanted to see on our travels, and this was the perfect opportunity.
We got onto the German Autobahn and it was MENTAL, people doing close to 200km/hr, others going 90 km/hr, so some people driving mental, other ...