Munich

 On the Friday the 13th we left for Munich.  Kegan and I were happy to go because we left early enough in the morning that we got to skip school.  We went of course by train.  On the train I watched Puss in Boots and we played cards and read.  We arrived in Munich and went straight to our hotel.  The hotel was nice enough and we dropped our bags and headed to the Deutsches Museum.

While we had been to the Deutsches Museum before it was still interesting.  We started with the mining exhibit and while it was huge it was not that interesting to me.  But I just did not care that much about the subject.  Then I went to the Physics hall and found that room interesting though a little difficult to understand in German.  Next I went to the Aerodynamics room in which there were some exhibits on birds that I found mildly interesting.  Then I went into a re-creation of the Altimira Cave system which was neat.  Though we had to go, I would have liked to look at the nano technology rooms and the chemistry room.

   

The Mining Exhibit

The next day we visited the Residenz.  The Residenz was origanally a castle but was extended by the Wittelbachs, the ruling family of Bavaria. Even though I had read the guide I was still not prepared for the number of rooms in the Residenz.  There are a total of 130 rooms though only 90 of them are viewable.  The Residenz supplied an audio guide but to listen to everything would take hours so we skimmed over some areas.  The major complaint I have with the Residenz was the lack of objects.  I understand a lot of it was destroyed but to listen to audio about stuff that was destroyed 50 years ago is just not very enjoyable.  Even not listening to everything still took 2 hours.  Then we went into the Treasury.  That was fascinating and the sheer volume of crowns,  scepters, jewels and altars was impressive.  The audio was also mildly informative.  The Residenz was huge and while there were some interesting exhibits it was not the best museum that I have been to by a long shot.

While I was not that impressed with the museums the food was good.  We ate at a steak house for dinner Friday night and the hotel served a magnificent breakfast and we ate at an Italian place for lunch the next day.  We also saw the Asam church.  It was built by two architects and was designed to show off what they could build to their customers.  Consequently it was overflowing with statues, jewels, altars and paintings.  We also went to the MarienPlatz and saw the joust at the clock tower.
Munich was interesting but once you have seen it three times it can get a little repetitive.

 

Eating at Maredo
 

Some people with a wagon of beer in the middle of the street. 

 

The MarienPlatz Joust

  

The Asam Church

 

 On the train home.