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From salt to bridges to monks with beer
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Munich is so much fun! we picked up Chris at the airport and had dinner before going on a pub crawl through the beer halls and clubs of Munich. the night was s much fun. we met 2 guys from Bristol (10 minutes west of Gloucester in England) nd they were so cool. we also met Alisha and Ryan from Los Altos Hills and Bridgette and Braden from Santa Barbara. yes i met another Braden, he spells it right and goes by Braden not Brady, and we all had a blast. four of us from California were wearing our Rainbow sandals. we started at a new bar that hasn't even opened yet, went t a club called Americano, then a hookah bar called Black and White, then a beer hall/bar called Shamrock, and finally ended up at the bar at our hostel so we hung out with all of our new friends and then just walked down the hall to our beds. Saturday we went on a bike tour of Munich. we learned so much about the history of Munich and saw a lot of famous sights, while riding on bikes. i haven't been on a bike in years but as the saying goes i got right back on and it was a great way to see Munich. we rode through the English Gardens and stopped for lunch at an outdoor beer hall. after the bike tour we went back to the hostel and rested after staying up late the night before and then riding around Munich. Saturday night we went out with Alisha, Ryan, Bridgette, Braden, and Mike, another guy we met on the pub crawl the night before. we went to another hookah bar and just relaxed, it was so nice. Sunday we went to the transport museum, the largest in the world, called the Deutches Museum. it was similar to the one in Lucerne but much much bigger and had a lot more exhibits and covered a lot more types of transportation. inside were full size boats, planes, and rockets. it was very cool and we learned a lot. we had lunch at the Hofbraunhouse, the famous beer hall in Munich. the duke of Munich didn't like the beer the monks brewed there so they told him to brew his own. he did, and everyone liked it much better than the monks'. after the beer hall we went to 3 churches: St. Peter's Cathedral, the oldest building in Munich, the Church of Our Lady, and St. Michaels. the Church of Our Lady is huge and it was built in only 20 years, one of the fastest in the world considering another church in Munich took 150 years to build. we actually ended up staying at the Church of Our Lady for the 6:00 mass. it was all in German so we didn't understand a word but a Catholic service is very similar to the services at St. Andrew's from back home so i had some idea what was going on. after the service we got our gear from the hostel and we are now taking a train to Fussen to see the famous castles there. Munich really is beautiful and we enjoyed just walking around town. the architecture is amazing, so many churches and clock towers, and so much history and culture it would take forever to write it all down. it'll be fun if we see the friends we made on the pub crawl that live in California when we get back home. Fun facts: Munich was actually founded by monks. salt traders from Salzburg heading north had to cross a dangerous river so monks in Germany built a bridge and charged the salt traders a toll and that is how and where Munich began. Hitler of course gained a lot of support in Munich and his book, Mein Cauf (My Struggle) is illegal in Germany and many other places. he wrote the book while in jail after a failed attempt to take control of Munich. we saw a lot of buildings having to do with WWII as well as the German monarchs before. most of Munich was bombed except the Church of Our Lady (the towers of the church were an excellent reference point for the Allied Forces of where to bomb in Munich), but a lot of the buildings were beautifully and accurately restored/rebuilt to their original architecture. there is even a nudist park in Germany but it was too cold wen we rode by on our bikes.
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