Munich

Servus ! (so they say in bavarian; means hello)

In our blog we tell you something about one of our favorite cities: Munich
Munich is with 1.35 million inhabitants the 3rd biggest city in Germany and the capital of Bavaria. Living in Munich is very expensive, the heaps are two times higher than the heaps in other German big cities like Berlin or Cologne.

Tourist magnets:

Munich is famous for the "Oktoberfest": Over one million people visit the biggest folk festival of the world. Many visitors from countries like Japan or Australia visit Munich only because of the good wheat beer. A typical Bavarian dish is " Haxen". You can eat the best "Haxen" in the "Hofbräuhaus".

Sights:

Here you can see the Marienplatz, where the new and the old town-halls are situated. The Marienplatz is the midpoint of Munich. If the most succesful German footballclub, the F.C. Bayern, wins a cha mpionship, they celebrate their victories on the balcony of the new town-hall.



This is the stadium of the F.C. Bayern and the TSV. 1860 Munich: The Allianz Arena. Effective with the city's approval of modifications the legal capacity of the stadium has increased from 66,000 to 69,901 spectators (including standing room). The constuction cost amounted to 340 million €. The opening match of the football World Cup in 2006 was in this arena, Germany won the game. The opponent of Germany was Costa Rica.

The English Garden is one of the biggest urban public parks in the world, it´s even bigger than the Central Park in NY. The English Garden lolls from the city centre to the northeastern street limits. Every day students, visitors and inhabitants recreate in their garden.




Day trips:



You can take a tram to the "Bavarian Filmstudios" in Grünwald which is sitiuated about 10km away from the city centre of Munich. Every year many TV an cinema movies are produced there. Some of the most popular ones are " The never-ending-story" and " The u-boat".
You can take a " Film Express" through the Film city and a guide tells you something about the movies and shows you the corresponding the props.


The Andechs Monastery belongs to the Benedictine orden an is located on a hill near the Ammersee in the Landkreis Starnberg. You can take the tram to Herrsching and from there you can have a nice walk up to the hill to the monastery. If you are strong enough and reach the top of the hill you can refresh yourself with a delicious famous Andechser Beer.

We wish you a nice trip to an exciting city!!!
Max and Christian.