Monday morning I woke up relatively early - as always - and went to explore Munich before everyone else woke up.
View from our window
Interesting architecture on the corner closest to our hotel.
I didn't see anything similar on all our wanderings in Munich
I took some morning pictures of Marienplatz
Hotels are very expensive in central Munich - think downtown New York
City prices. After lots of searching I managed to get us two
rooms at the Muenchner Kindl for under 200 euros per day per room, including
breakfast. This place was listed in Rick Steves 2005 Germany
book. The prices were less than half the rates we found at any
other centrally located hotel. Breakfast was only 5 euros per
person per day, so I went ahead and included breakfast as well.
Before everyone else woke up, I discovered each place at the breakfast
tables were labelled with a room number. I had them move our two
rooms to the same table. When we sat down to breakfast they
immediately cooked up eggs for us. The eggs turned a fairly mundane
breakfast into a hearty meal.
Around the time we sat down to breakfast, a old man with a German
accent made the mistake of sitting down to a breakfast he had not
pre-paid for. The manager (owner?) quickly started chastising
him, moving the other place settings away from his table, and giving
him no end of grief. It was quite a scene and the rest of my
party was a bit confused and alarmed as I quietly assured them that we had paid for
breakfast and we'd be ok. Soon the old man was apologizing profusely begging for the
opportunity to pay for his breakfast. One of the things I found
most Interesting was that the entire conversation between the owner and
the old man was in English, despite the fact that German was clearly
their native tongue.
After breakfast we wandered to Marienplatz as we were discussing plans
for the day we got separated, so Mike and I went to the Deutsches
Museum while Ray, Paul, and Kent rented bikes to see the Olympic Park.
ME-262. One of the last airplane models I made as a kid was the ME-262 - I love this plane.
Only 10 ME-262s survive today, and I've seen two of them (the other was in the Smithsonion in DC)
Fokker DR I replica - the Red Barron's plane. Unfortunately not a
single original plane survives. Only 3 planes survived the end of
WWI - one crashed in the 30s, and the Allied bombing destroyed the last
2 during WWII.
BF 109 (aka ME 109)
While Mike and I were wandering the Deutsches Museum, Ray, Paul, and Kent biked around Munich
Olympic Park
After the Deutsches Museum Mike and I went to the Hofbräuhaus for
lunch.... and beer. After we had stuffed ourselves and drank too
much and were ready to leave, Paul, Ray, and Kent arrived.... so we
stayed. Where else were we going to go?
I drank a total of 2-1/2 liters of beer on Monday.
