Munich, a city of Germany, our fifth
station. Oktoberfest beer celebration comes into my mind when people talked
about Munich. In fact, Munich also famous for its beautiful architectures. Architectures
in Europe always impressive!
Summers in Munich city are warm and
pleasant. So our first activity when we were there was, had a walk at one of
the largest urban parks in the world, the English Garden. It is a huge park with
extensive paths, rivers and cascades, so we spent hours here walking and
running.
Look at the map! We can't even finish walking in this huge park.
The garden was looking so green ~
I was actually running in the garden. Why?
Because I left my favorite PUMA cap when we stopped by the Chinese pagoda for
an ice-cream and I realized it when we walked about 1 km further. How careless
I was! Due to this, Clement and I ran about 1 km back to the Chinese pagoda for
my cap. Luckily the cap was still at the ice-cream stall although it was left
there about half an hour. Thanks God! Our running was not wasted! That time I
was thinking if I left my cap somewhere in my homeland, 100% sure that it will
be taken and gone forever. No offence but this is true :)
English Garden
Siegestor - Victory Gate
Theatinerkirche - St. Cajetan's Church
Mariensäule at St. Mary's Square
Clear blue sky and the stunning new town hall, the best view in Munich !
The New Town Hall
The New Town Hall (Neus
Rathaus), one of the most distinctive features in Munich. From the exterior and
in the courtyard of this beautiful building, I captured the pictures with my
lousy camera and without any editing but it still looks awesome! In Europe, we can really see lot of
great buildings. Too bad that we missed out the famous Glockenschpiele’s
performance.
Me of the day, with the vintage vespa :)
Next, we visited the toy museum. Toy museum, as it named, exhibit
all type of toys from the past. We had to climb bell tower style stairs to get
to each level. The entrance fees was cheap, only 3 to 4 euro if I am not
mistaken. But for us, it was not really interesting. Some of the toys are
horrifying, especially those Barbie dolls. Maybe I watched too much horror
movies and I don’t play Barbie dolls when I was a kid. Hehehe…
The classic bears
See, are they looks horrify?
These mice were much more elder then us!
The vintage robots
What I remembered the most at Munich was
this! Our dinner at Hofbräuhaus München. The Hofbräuhaus must be one of the best known eating and
drinking places in Munich. It is a MUST visit and dining place when you visit
Munich. It has everything German including the tradition German
oom-pah band, the lederhosen and the big breasted ladies.
Hofbräuhaus
The crowd and the Tradition German oom-pah music
The first time we stopped by were told almost all the foods were finished
as we reached quite late that night. So we went the next day evening time, the
place was really in full swing although it was not peak hours. Finally we were
getting our seats and placed our order. Here come the beer and foodsssss~
Different types of beer and their beers were rich and creamy, smooth mouth feel after drinking. Thumbs up!
It was me, 2 years ago XD
And next, the main charactersss ~
Crispy roasted knuckle of pork. We liked this the most!
Slices of braised knuckle of pork
Bavarian salt pork knuckle that not good looking but tasted nice.
Wiener sausages
"wool" white sausages
Original Munich veal sausages
Last but not least, the bread basket.
Look at the empty plates. All the dishes were finished within half an hour. Guess all of us were really hungry and the foods were nice!
Their pork knuckles and sausages were awesome! Words just can’t
describe how nice were the foods. The environment was nice and the food was
excellent and reasonably priced. However, their services were below average, staffs
over there were not that friendly as they do not speak English. Luckily there are English version menu provided, we still able to order our foods and drinks with our fingers! Anyway, it was
the best Bavarian cuisine and the best beer that I ever had so far. A delicious
Bavarian cuisine to end our days in Munich. How wonderful it was!
There’s all for Munich. Not much places we went in Munich. We
missed the chance to visit the Royal Castles Neuschwanstein and Linderhof due
to timing problem. It was great pity that we didn't visit the dream castles but
we still enjoyed our trip to Munich!
Again, my progress on writing is a bit slow nowadays. Thought to post this when August but I missed it! I am not busy, just LAZYyyy and lack of inspirations ~ *wink* Kind of stressed up lately. 24 hours in a day seem like not enough for me because I got lots of thing want to do! Anyway, 1 post per month still not that bad, right? 5 more stations to go! Hope can get all done before year end.
p/s: September is here. Please be good to me! :)
p/s: September is here. Please be good to me! :)
