Tuesday, June 7, 2022

The long trip home

The Munich airport was a mess. Three long lines and two shuttle rides = two hours to get to my gate.

First there was expected security line, where I got the full pat down. Next was the passport check, where the automated reader wouldn't read my passport, so I had to wait in the manual check line. Last and certainly not least was the Covid-document check line, which was a complete disaster. Multiple lines that didn't move at all for ages, then once they started moving not enough staff to man all of the lines, and passengers who hadn't read the instructions and were sent back to who knows where.

At my gate, the sole water fountain was out of order, so I had to spend 3.50€ on a plastic bottle of water. The flight back to California was long but uneventful, and I took this cool picture somewhere over Baffin Bay.

Sunday, June 5, 2022

Last day

Karlstor on the second day of Pokémon Go Fest.
The Höfbräuhaus — really crowded and noisy
The Rathaus with the famous glockenspiel
After a stop in the pouring rain for a required pre-flight Covid test, I ended the day by taking Beth and some of her friends out for Thai food

Saturday, June 4, 2022

City gates and Pokemon

Today was the first day of Pokémon Go Fest 2022 :-D

Karlstor
Sendlinger Tor
A "Party bike"
Had a lovely dinner with Beth at Restaurant Freisinger Hof

Friday, June 3, 2022

Deutsches Museum and wandering around town

Deutsches Museum: U-Boot U1
Deutsches Museum: Paul Hindemith's Trautonium
Viktualienmarkt maypole
I also got to visit Beth's school, and we ended the day with doner kebabs from the local shop.

Thursday, June 2, 2022

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

I met up with my high school friend Kristy today. We went hiking in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (site of the 1936 Winter Olympics), then had a lovely dinner with her family and the Ukranian refugees they are housing.

Partnach Gorge trail
Partnach River
Tasty lunch (Käsespätzle and a rhubarb spritzer), terrible selfie
Bavarian Alps

Wednesday, June 1, 2022

The rest of the day

Surfers in the English Garden
Random statue of Chopin
The glockenspiel at the Rathaus

Dachau

“Each of us today is shaping the background history of tomorrow.”
— Chaim Schatzker


Entrance with finger (sorry!)
Never again
Guard tower
The crematorium looks so innocuous from the outside
Disinfection chamber
Gas chamber
The ovens
Arbeit mach frei

Tuesday, May 31, 2022

English Garden and a whole lot of churches

Today Beth and I went to the English Garden, one of the world's largest urban public parks.

For lunch, we could have had fish grilled on the stick,
but we opted for Kartoffelsalat, Schnitzel, and Kirschestrüdel at the Chinese Tower Beer Garden.
Siegestor
I spent the afternoon visiting a few of the many amazing churches in Munich.

St. Ludwig's
Frauenkirche
St. Michael's
Door handle
Asamkirche
St. Peter's
And the view from the top of the St. Peter's tower (306 steps!)

Monday, May 30, 2022

Residenz and around Munich

Today I had lunch with a college classmate, then walked around and toured the Residenz.

Theatine Church
One of the lions guarding the Residenz
Some crowns in the Residenz Treasury
House altar, Duke Albert V of Bavaria, Residenz Treasury
Ancestral Gallery, Residenz Museum
Shell Grotto, Residenz Museum
Antiquarium, the oldest room in the Residenz Museum
Green Gallery, Residenz Museum
Cuvilliés Theatre
Aluminum statue of Maximilian von Montgelas
Weirdly, this statue of Orlando Lassus has become a Michael Jackson memorial!