Day 2: Munich Environs and Tegernsee
The bread and rolls in Germany are fantastic! Especially at breakfast. The bike trip better start soon, or we won't be able to fit into our spandex.
Hymie met us this morning with a very comfortable Mercedes minivan for a drive outside the city. On our way out , we passed Hitler's Munich office (now a music academy),
his mistress, Eva Braun's house,
and his personal residence.
Again, all very creepy.
We were passing the English Garden and stopped to do a bit of surfing (Dave, we should have not given up so quickly). It is very strange seeing people walking around a land-locked city with surf boards and wetsuits, but people line up for a minute of hanging 10 on the Eis Bach ("Ice Brook", aptly named for its 50 degree water coming off the Alps).
We then drove on backroads through the beautiful Bavarian countryside dotted with small villages with houses lined with windoboxes. We stopped at one of the larger towns, Tölz Bad, known for its healing spas and now a tourist destination. All its buildings are decorated with colorful murals, Lüftmalerei, or frescoes, of traditional Bavarian themes, fairy tales, religious scenes. Lüftlmalerei is common in Bavaria and its name may be derived from an Oberammergau house called Zum Lüftl, which was the home of facade painter Franz Seraph Zwinck (1748–1792). Some of the buildings here date back to the 1400's.
Couldn't pass up some almond horns, though everything looked delicious.
We stopped for a late lunch at a beautiful Bier Garten overlooking the Tergensee See.
You could tell the view would have been outstanding had it not been raining and foggy.
The drive back to Munich was quick, via the Autobahn, but rainy. Jeri and I both fell asleep in the car.
After a brief rest back at he hotel, It was time again to eat. We decided to walk to the restaurant which was located behind the Munich Opera House, but had a bit of difficulty finding our way (only about 10 minutes late for the reservation). On our walk we passed through Marienplatz again.
Dinner was wonderful, though we were all a bit nervous about eating indoors. Jeri is even beginning to develop a taste for hellebier.
The stroll back was much more direct and Marienplatz was beautiful all lit up.
Tomorrow is our last day in Munich with Iwona and Lothar.
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