Well, I guess it has been quite some time since our last post. September has been a little less eventful than August, but still we have had a good time.
We went to the viewing deck on the Olympiaturm and had a nice view of the city. This picture shows BMW Welt and BMW Headquarters.
We visited Schloss Nymphenburg...
...and spent several hours walking around the gardens.
And of course we visited Oktoberfest, or the Wies'n as the locals call it. This is the 176th Oktoberfest. It was originally a festival organized to celebrate the wedding of King Ludwig I and his wife Therese. At first there were horse races around the Theresienwiesen (Therese's Meadow), but they later decided that a beer fest would be much more fun. It lasts for two weeks and draws 7 million visitors to Munich. There are many beer "tents" constructed by the local breweries. These are enormous wooden structures which can hold hundreds of people and are reconstructed every year for Wies'n. We went to one of the smaller beer tents (Nymphenburger), which I found out later, is the one tent that specializes in German wine and only sells beer in the tiny half-liter glasses rather than the 1-liter Maß. Check out our video below. The party was in full swing on early Sunday afternoon.
We went to the viewing deck on the Olympiaturm and had a nice view of the city. This picture shows BMW Welt and BMW Headquarters.This is a view of the Frauenkirche from the Olympiaturm.
We went to the Tierpark (zoo) and saw plenty of critters...
...including this fine example of a parent re-directing the child.
We visited Schloss Nymphenburg......and spent several hours walking around the gardens.And of course we visited Oktoberfest, or the Wies'n as the locals call it. This is the 176th Oktoberfest. It was originally a festival organized to celebrate the wedding of King Ludwig I and his wife Therese. At first there were horse races around the Theresienwiesen (Therese's Meadow), but they later decided that a beer fest would be much more fun. It lasts for two weeks and draws 7 million visitors to Munich. There are many beer "tents" constructed by the local breweries. These are enormous wooden structures which can hold hundreds of people and are reconstructed every year for Wies'n. We went to one of the smaller beer tents (Nymphenburger), which I found out later, is the one tent that specializes in German wine and only sells beer in the tiny half-liter glasses rather than the 1-liter Maß. Check out our video below. The party was in full swing on early Sunday afternoon.This is our last week of language school in München. On Friday we are going by train to see Adam, Ruth, and John in Chambéry for a few days (we are very stoked about this). Then we will move to Erlangen and I (John) will finally get back to work on research (John is also stoked about this).
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