Munich Photos 1

There's the Luftansa jet. It's an Airbus A340. Not a lot of leg room.
The woman across the aisle was Italian. She was reading some Italian tabloid.
Stepping out of the terminal at the airport, right across the way is an escalator going down to the train station.
My accommodations was a bed and breakfast on this street in a southeastern neighborhood in Munich.
The house is on the corner of Feldbergstrasse and Zehntfeldstrasse. The local bus stops right on this corner in front of...
...Jan and Fatima's house. That window at the top is the attic room where I stayed.
The bed, the sofa and the wardrobe. The lion and the witch were missing.
It's a pretty good sized room. There is a large sofa, a little fridge and a desk as well. All for 50 Euros a night. The only downside was having to share the bathroom, but it wasn't a big deal at all.
The station at Trudering. Transportation was really easy. The 194 bus to Feldbergstrasse originates at the train station.
After the long flight and little sleep, it was into the city for a bit. This is the Marienplatz. The big building with the gothic facade is the Neues Rathaus or New Town Hall. This is more or less the center of the old town.
This column with Mary and the baby J on top doesn't look like it's very old. I think it might have been erected to commemorate a visit by Pope John Paul II.
Aaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!!! This screaming fellow was one of many gargoyles on the Neues Rathaus.
Inside the Frauenkirche, aka the Cathedral of Our Blessed Lady. This is apparently a memorial in black marble to Louis IV of Bavaria, Holy Roman Emperor from 1328 to 1347.
A big clock and a stained glass window.
The structure took a pounding during WWII. I'd say the restoration went well. Leave it to the Catholics to have a giant Jesus hanging on a cross suspended from the ceiling.
It's just a clothing store, but I liked the name. Wormland.
This is the Bayerische Staatskanzlei or the Bavarian State Chancellery. It is where the Minister-President and his people do their work. I suppose it's kind of like a state capitol building in the U.S. Munich is the capital of Bavaria. I don't know how old the middle part is. It may have been the original part of the building. The rest is all new with a lot of glass.
I liked this particular bit of architecture. It was incorporated into the Staatskanzlei building. You can see the end of it entering the newer structure. It is the Hofbrunnwerk. From what I gather it is an old aquaduct.
Englischer Gartens or English Garden. It was designed by an Englishman in the English style, so it is appropriately named. Plus it was raining, so that certainly made it feel like England.
It is a nice urban park.
The Monopteros. It's a little round, Greek style temple built in 1836.
Inside the Monopteros is this small column. It says something about King Maximillian I and King Ludwig I.
The Englischer Gartens is bigger than Central Park in Manhattan. Off in the distance you can see the twin towers of Frauenkirche.
I know that "bahn" has something to do with a means of transportation. "Wank" means something else.
I've seen the actual Berlin Wall in Berlin and part of the torn-down section at the Ronald Reagan Library in California. Here's another section on display outside the...
...United States Consulate.
The National Theatre. I'm not sure who the statue depicts. Probably one of the Ludwigs or Maximillians.
This is the Hofbräuhaus, where the first meeting of the Nazi party took place in 1920 and Hitler set forth his plans for a new reich in Germany. That didn't work out too well for a whole lot of people.
The Hofbräuhaus is a very popular beer hall. I didn't stay for dinner and a beer because it was filled with cigarette smoke.
I had dinner here at a restaurant called Opatija. Schnitzel and spätzle. Mmmm.

DAY 2 - MUNICH