We were tourists today.  And we’re exhausted for it!  We set out on foot in the first real sunshine we’ve seen so far in Germany.  It didn’t last long.  We went straight for the Marienplatz which is the site of the new town hall.  Ironicly, the new town hall is older than the old town hall.  The old town hall was destroyed in WW II and rebuilt later.  The new town hall survived the bombings and this is technically older than the old town hall.  The super-touristy thing about the new town hall is Das Glockenspiel.

Das Glockenspiel

After that we visit a cool ‘deli’ called Alois Dallmayr.  It’s more of a market than a deli, but apparently in the old days, when the king wanted take out, this is where he went.  Or more likely sent servents. 

Then off to see the Hofbrauhaus, the most famous of the beer halls.  It’s huge and was packed.   They say the have a vomitatorium in the men’s room.  I declined to check it out.  Although we did see a guy tossing his cookies out the window of a moving car.  It was about then we decided to skip lunch.

Then it started to rain.  We were not deterred.  And we had an umbrella.  And it rains a lot where we live anyway.  We probably covered four or five miles in total.  The high point was the Lenbachaus, an art museum.  The museum is the permanent home of a large body of work by a group of artists know as “Der Blaue Reiter“, The Blue Rider in English.  Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter were founding members who helped develop abstract art.  We enjoyed the museum very much, both the art and the story of the group.

After that, we pooped out at the hotel for a while.  We had dinner at a crazy Italian restaurant the hotel recommended.  So basically we left a French hotel in Germany to eat Italian food.  Go figure…