On our first full day we wandered about the busy town centre, checking out the famous glockenspiel on the Town Hall´s clock, and seeing the busy farmers market.
In the afternoon we popped into the Hofbrau Beer Hall for a Stein (for me) and a shandy-esque Radler (for Sheryl). There was a brass band dressed up in traditional Bavarian clothing for extra effect. We ended up chatting to a random German couple and spent some five or six hours chatting and drinking with them. Later, we went to another beer hall, Augustiner, for ´thigh of pork´ with sour kraut and funny stodgy dumpling potatoes. Not to mention more beer!
Today we had a much more sobering experience in a trip out to Dachau - the first of many Nazi concentration camps. More than 32,000 people died at this particular one and I think I´m right in saying this was the only one to be operational for the 12 years of Hitler´s reign. A wander around the huge memorial site, and inside the gas chambers and crematoriums, was followed with a 45 minute video in English.
We plan to leave for Dresden, in eastern Germany, on Monday for two nights. Then it´s off to Berlin where a piece of carpet at Sheryl´s brother and sister in laws´new flat has our name on it. Not literally we hope. But we´re looking forward to it all the same.
For now, it´s servus from Munchen!
Dale & Sheryl
Photos from Venice...
(Boredom on the night train to Venice leads to a series of Hallensteins poses)
(Shots from canals in Venice...don´t ask where!)
(More canals shots, and us from the Rialto bridge)
(Sheryl amongst the pigeons at Piazza San Marco, and some night shots)
(An evening on the Grand Canal)
Photos from Rome...
(Roman ruins and the Colosseum from the outside)
(Forget queing, we were inside just minutes later!)
(The Vittorio Emmanuel I monument - guarded night and day by Italian´s with guns)
(Silly poses are nearly always funny...and the Colosseum by night)
(The impressive St Peters Basilica in the world´s smallest country, the Vatican City)
(551 steps later we got a half decent view, and later from inside)
(On the way home via the river)
(High speed tandem fun in Vila Borghese - a leafy park in Rome)
Photos from Munich...(so far)
(From close to 30 degrees to light snow in the space of a day!)
(When in Rome (hey, Bavaria is home of beer)...drink with the Romans!)
(Some shots from Dacau...the writing on the fence told prisoners "work sets you free")
2 comments:
hey dale, your hair is looking pretty smooth,
Geez Dale. Get a haircut you smelly hippie ans shave while you're at it. Wait... No. Don't shave. It's Mo'vember.
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