Day 11- The Great Beerscape

So we made our way to the beer museum, only to find out it didn't open for another hour. Damn. And after we spent a solid twenty minutes looking for it. Anyway, we walked around for a while before deciding to make our way back to the most famous beer garden in Munich, which probably makes it the greatest beer garden in the world. The Hofbrauhaus. I wasn't even hungry, my breakfast looked like this, after all.
That's weisswurst, weissbier, and a bretzel, And sweet, sweet mustard.

Anywhoo, going back to Claudio's policy of not having to be hungry to eat, we sat down in the building capable of holding 3500 guests, and ordered two Russ'n. That is a mixture of lemonade and weissbier. It looks something like this.

That's my fist on the table in front of two 1 liter tankards of our drinks, and oh meine Gott was it good. We decided that with this much beer, we didn't need actual lunch, and so just ordered a desert. It was sort of a Swedish pancake served with powdered sugar and applesauce, or smashed apples, as the Germans call them. The dessert was good, but the star of the show was the beer.

Afterwards we stumbled about Munich, coming across some cool stuff by accident. One. of these cool things was this awesome church sandwiched in between the houses on either side of it.

I have no idea why they shoehorned a place of worship into this tiny space, but it is very cool looking. Here's a picture of the interior, all statues and gold.
A just insane amount of detail, especially for us Protestants, who are used to a more demure setting. We kept walking for what felt like days, but was only a few hours. We finally made our way back to the beer museum, but it turned out to be sort of lame.

We strolled some more, just looking at the architecture. Munich was largely spared by the war, so unlike Berlin it is chock full of old timey buildings. Like this one, a huge ornately sculpted building in the middle of a shopping district.
I believe this was where the Glockespiel is, but we didn't actually see it in motion.

Another really cool thing was this huge open air market there, where you could buy bread, vegetables, fruit, meats, cheeses, all sorts of things. We didn't get anything, we were too full of beer, but it was very neat.

My pictures don't do the city justice, Munich is very, very cool. We could have easily spent a week there alone. We left there shortly after noon on a train with no air conditioning. I am now back in Switzerland, and took a much needed shower, having sweated for some 20 straight hours.

Sunday finds us on an early train to Venice. Until next time.

-Chase