I think most people who include Germany in their Europe itinerary usually choose to go to Berlin. But when I booked the ticket to Prague and was trying to decide what other city to visit, Munich was the first place that I thought of. Mainly because I wanted to see Neuschswanstein Castle, which I will talk more about in a different post. If I had done more research, I probably would have chosen to visit the Romantic Road from Frankfurt to Munich, which is a tour of medieval towns in Bavaria. I can always go back, right? 🙂 While Munich is not always an obvious choice when planning a European tour, I did enjoy exploring and discovering more about Bavaria’s capital. As a bonus, I got to meet a long-time online friend in person! Again, more on that in another post.
It’s funny how we visited as many castles and palaces as we can during our trip. Our first full day in Munich, we chose to explore Nymphenburg Palace and its surrounding gardens:
Park palaces Amalienburg and Badenburg:
The Hall of Mirrors inside Amelienburg, a smaller version of the one in Versailles:
During one of the days we were in Munich, we met up with one of Kim’s friends and she showed us around the area. We visited the elaborately decorated Asamkirche, which was built by the Asam brothers to be their private church:
We explored the outdoor market Viktualienmarkt:
Shakespeare and Co. is an indie bookstore in the Marienplatz area. It has the same name as the renowned bookstore in Paris. Unfortunately, most of their stocks are German titles so we weren’t able to buy anything:
The Munich Residenz is another royal palace located in the city. It was previously used by the monarchs of the House of Wittelsbach.
The Antiquarium, the oldest room in the Residenz. It was created to house the royalty’s collection of antique sculptures. If these were antique during the 1800s, then they’re now ancient:
One of the mirrors inside the palace and a super fancy cabinet for china:
Ancestral Gallery, which displays portraits of the rulers of Bavaria:
A bejeweled crown and a ceremonial sword from the Treasury inside the Residenz:
A traditional German meal that I had was cheese spatzle with Hacker-Pschorr Radler (beer with lemonade and my favorite out of all the beers we tried):
Have you visited Munich? If you have, what did you think of it? I’m not aware of any books set in Munich but I believe The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is set in a city nearby.
I’ll be honest and say that I love these posts because you share such beautiful photos! I always enjoy reading about people’s travel adventures, but I’m especially enamored seeing posts about Europe. This place looks BEAUTIFUL.
Thank you for always having such nice things to say about my travel posts! I’m glad you enjoy looking at them. I’m sure I’ll feel the same when I see YOU post Europe pictures. 🙂
I’m very much enjoying reading of your recent travels. I’ll agree with Alexa and say that your photos are wonderful.
Thank you, Kareni! I’m glad you like that. Comments like yours and Alexa make it worth my while to write travel posts like these (even though they’re not book-related) 😛
Yay ^^. I still wish you had gotten the full-on Bavarian sky at Nymphenburg (and that they’d put the fountain in front of the entrance on). This week is supposedly going to reach the 30s (degrees Celsius) over here.
I was totally willing to forgive the weather because it gave us the full-on Bavarian sky at Neuschwanstein! Although I agree, Nymphenburg would have been even more beautiful if we visited it on a sunny day. We should have switched it up with the day we went to Residenz.
Good point. And it wasn’t clear that the weather was going to end up so lovely right then. Hindsight is 20/20 vision, hee.
LOL. Yep, it is.
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