Well today was pretty low keyed. In Germany the government does not allow
businesses to be open for shopping.
There are a few exceptions like gas stations, bus and train stations and
of course the airports. Otherwise
shopping does not exist on Sundays, so today we spent most of our day in
Munich. We took a tour this morning of
the city as well as the area where King Ludwig built his wife’s summer
home. It began as one 5-story house with
a building on each side of it. After he
added on and his son and grandson added on their parts during their reigns, it
became a 600 acre park with a reflection pool (much like the one that sits in
front of the Washington Monument) and 16 buildings that included the world’s
largest indoor carriage house and a church.
During the tour we also found out that this weekend was the
celebration weekend for Munich’s anniversary.
Anniversary number 586 I think is the correct number of years. This anniversary celebration was all that one
would expect to see in Germany. We watched
the glockenspiel that is in the city hall play its tunes and the figurines
rotate telling the story of Munich. Then
there were Bavarian bands playing their Oom-pa-pa, oom-pa-pa music along with
people dancing traditional Bavarian dances.
Of course all of this was done by people wearing lederhosen and those
Bavarian dresses (the name escapes me at the moment). We spent several hours listening to music and
walking the streets of Munich looking at all of the handcrafted items from
paintings to yard art made from metal or glass and handbags to wood
carvings. The talent is amazing! Best part of the day was seeing men dressed
as women walking through the crowd on stilts – it was crazy. The day was a little too slow to write too
much so I will just post a bunch of pictures.
Of course I will have video of the glockenspiel when I come home.
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