After a leisurely breakfast, and good byes all around to fellow guests and opera goers (champagne before the opera and dinners and/or drinks after has made friends of us all),
... then on to the train station for a two and a half hour trip to Munich. (Peter has pointed out that none of the trains we have taken has been on time. They are not late by much, mind you, but somehow, it is not what one expects in Germany....), and to the Bayerische Hof Hotel, very old, very elegant. (Good choice, Peter!!)
.....and when we go out for a walk in the old town, the pedestrian shopping district and what they call the Victuals Market (Granville Island on steroids), find this statue as our landmark (we haven't been able to find out who, if anyone, he represents)......
.....and the Marienhof......
... and the "new"Rathaus (city hall)...
....where we stop in the square for some refreshment (liquid and otherwise)
The Rathaus has figures in the tower which dance on the hour to celebrate the ending of the plague here in 1389....
(It is quite amazing, in the age of the Internet and reality games, that mobs of people will stand around waiting for a clock's mechanical figures...)
...continuing our walk by the Isar River, we find a pretty little urban beach....
...and, having once again exhausted our desire for German food, took the hotel's recommendation for Italian, and ate at Guido's al Duomo (as advertised, near both our hotel and the cathedral - see day 14 for more on the cathedral), excellent.
Well, we are in the big city now, lots of people on the streets at night, German, Italian, French, American, lots of music and activity. A nice change from sleepy Bayreuth, which, of course, had other attractions...
Not too bad for our first half day in Munich...
... then on to the train station for a two and a half hour trip to Munich. (Peter has pointed out that none of the trains we have taken has been on time. They are not late by much, mind you, but somehow, it is not what one expects in Germany....), and to the Bayerische Hof Hotel, very old, very elegant. (Good choice, Peter!!)
.....and when we go out for a walk in the old town, the pedestrian shopping district and what they call the Victuals Market (Granville Island on steroids), find this statue as our landmark (we haven't been able to find out who, if anyone, he represents)......
.....and the Marienhof......
....where we stop in the square for some refreshment (liquid and otherwise)
The Rathaus has figures in the tower which dance on the hour to celebrate the ending of the plague here in 1389....
(It is quite amazing, in the age of the Internet and reality games, that mobs of people will stand around waiting for a clock's mechanical figures...)
...continuing our walk by the Isar River, we find a pretty little urban beach....
...and, having once again exhausted our desire for German food, took the hotel's recommendation for Italian, and ate at Guido's al Duomo (as advertised, near both our hotel and the cathedral - see day 14 for more on the cathedral), excellent.
Well, we are in the big city now, lots of people on the streets at night, German, Italian, French, American, lots of music and activity. A nice change from sleepy Bayreuth, which, of course, had other attractions...
Not too bad for our first half day in Munich...
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