Short visit to Munich

At the beginning of August Anna and I made a short trip to Munich to visit Teresa. We went down on Wednesday and stayied until Saturday. It was a great trip, partly because we got to see some new parts of Munich and some things that have been on my to do list.

Wednesday we arrived about lunch time, so went to the Hirschgarten and ate at the beer garden there. Something I remember doing in 2001 with my family!

Enjoying the sunshine (unfortunately so were the wasps!)

Feeding the deer. There was a list of allowed foods, including carrots.

Went for a walk after to see Schloss Nymphenburg

On Thursday we took a trip outside of Munich to enjoy the sunshine. We took a BOB train (Bayrische Oberlandbahn) for about an hour to the Tegernsee. There we paid €2,50 to enter the Strandbad, where we could rent lawn chairs and umbrellas.

Getting comfortable and enjoying the beautiful view

We spent the afternoon rotating between relaxing, swimming and eating. We made friends with the lifeguard there, and after asking about stand up paddle boards he let us try out his lifesaving board. At the beginning we tried to all sit on it, but that just ended up with us all in the water. So we each took a turn afterwards.

Paddling around

The lifeguard then found out we could go just down from the Strandbad and rent the stand up paddle boards. We left our stuff and went over to check it out. As you could rent them by the hour, we rented one and each tried it out for 20 minutes. It turned out to be quite a lot easier than I thought! Still a bit rocky, but surprisingly relaxing to paddle around - unless a boat comes and makes too many waves!

Paddling on the lake

Thursday night we went to the Olympic Park right by Teresa's house. We had food at the festival there, and then watched the fireworks.

Friday we split up. The other two went shopping and I took myself off to the Deutsches Museum. Weather was rather rainy, and I was disappointed to find a long long line up at the entrance. But thanks to an overheard conversation by the American tourists behind me I bought a ticket on my phone and skipped the line! 

Spent all afternoon visiting most of the exhibits, of which there are many! I really enjoyed the full scale model mines they have deep in the basement. They had three of them, including a salt mine and a coal mine. 

Early airplanes hanging from the ceiling

We met up again in the evening, and went out for a last dinner together. Even though I don't normally eat sushi in Germany, Teresa took us to an all-you-can-eat sushi restaurant, where the food comes on a conveyor belt! It was really cool, and ended up being delicious. Though I am pretty sure I started with dessert, ate dessert in the middle and then ended with dessert again!

Watching all the possible plates come around the conveyor belt

Saturday we went out for brunch at a family run pancake place. Then walked around the English Garden before catching the train back to Frankfurt.