Germany 2018 - Munich, Day 1

Our first full day in Munich! We slept in for a bit before eating breakfast and heading out to explore the city. Unlike Berlin, we didn't have anything planned to we looked up some cool land marks, jumped on the transit system and headed out.

The first thing we did was go to to the English Garden's north end and then start walking south. We spent about two hours doing that, much to mine and Roslyn's enjoyment. Part way during the walk we ran into one of the two Hofbrauhaus run beer gardens in the park where we stopped for lunch. It was pretty cool sitting down for a snack and a beer and watching a few hundred other people pour into the garden to do the same thing on their lunch break. Walking through the gardens was wonderful, full of trees, small streams and small animals. We enjoyed ourselves so much we forgot take any pictures unfortunately.

After getting to the half way point in the English Garden, we jumped on a bus and a subway train and went to Marienplatz. We wandered around the market in the area and eventually climbed to the top of St. Peter's church to get a good view out over the city.

After the church climb, we headed across the square to go to the top of the tower in the town center. We ended up wandering around the halls for a it as well and saw some amazing stained glass windows.

After spending some time at the top of the town center and walking around again, we stayed in Marienplatz to watch the life sized Cuckoo clock that is in the main tower of the town center. It was pretty cool to watch but was about 15 minutes long, which started to drag after a while. There was a huge crowd there for it though, which quite a few different buskers playing instruments giving the entire square a light-hearted party atmosphere. After the show we went back to the apartment for a bit before going out for supper.

Going out to supper meant heading back to the north end of Marienplatz and wandering the streets until we could find the Hofbrauhaus, a massive beer house form the 16th century. We had been told we needed to visit by pretty much everyone that new we were going to Munich. On the way we saw a completely ivy covered building, which is more common than we were expecting in Germany. The ivy covered building ended up being about a block away from the Hofbrauhaus, so it was a good land mark for getting around.

Once in the Hofbrauhaus we settle in with some of their mugs of ale and figure out what supper was going to be. All of us had a pretty good day in Munich roaming around and were looking forward to another entire day of it tomorrow!