Munich photos
Categories: places
Tags: photos, Munich, Germany, holiday
Date: 17 September 2008 16:21:55
Viktualienmarkt:
Between Viktualienmarkt and Marienplatz:
Marienplatz (including the glockenspiel):
On the way to lunch:
New Synagogue (this is a rather controversial building - I thought it was beautiful, especially close up):
Bizarre statue:
Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady - the Catholic Cathedral, and probably, along with the New Town Hall Munich's most famous sight):
Heading towards the English Garden: Opera House, rubbing the lion for luck, a couple of the square where Hitler once made a speech (my brother-in-law's grandparents couldn't walk through there for years afterwards and would go out of their way to avoid it, because of the connotations of the place), cellist busking in the Hofgarten, Bavarian Parliament Building:
Photos from the English Garden. The first one is a bit of the Berlin Wall apparently, followed by four of a small stream, only about 30 feet across, which attracts mad surfers (you'll see in the first one the sign which even I as a non-German speaker knew said "Surfing and Bathing Forbidden"!). Then some beery ones (including one of me looking very flabby - argh! - which is why I made it smaller!!):
On the way back - Monument to the White Rose movement (an anti-Nazi movement in Munich in the early 40s), and an ad for an unfortunately-named doctor I saw in the tube that made me laugh):
Next up are lots of pictures from the Deutsches Museum. Forgive the indulgence, there's rather a lot of clarinets! The fourth one is me playing the theremin:
Next up are pictures from Schliersee. As you will see, the weather wasn't great!:
Finally, here's some conker pictures. Check out the little figures - I think the giraffe and hedgehog are my favourites:
