Munich

For his birthday, Nick's friends had given him a sports car rental for a weekend. We had a choice of locations in Germany so we chose to go to Munich over the bank holiday weekend. We arrived on Friday night and on Saturday morning went on a self-guided walking tour of the city. It's a really lovely city and I've decided Germany (from what I've seen) is quite under-rated as a place to visit.

On our walking tour - Neues Rathaus, the gothic town hall


Inside Asamkirche - a small baroque chapel built by two brothers who lived next door and used it as their private chapel...


Odeonsplatz with the Feldherrnhalle (a shrine to war heroes) behind.


Urban surfers - in the English Garden there is a spot on the Eisbach where surfers surf on a fake wave. It's quite a strong torrent of water (you can see the last couple of guys being taken down the river by the current) and clearly popular with a queue of people waiting on both sides of the river.


The car we rented was a Porsche 911 cabrio and it was dropped off to us on the Saturday afternoon. We went for a spin around the city and drove to Turkenstrasse where my friend Kate had recommended a good place for cake and tea (seeing as I can't get stuck into stein!).

Saturday night we had dinner at Haxnbauer (another recommendation from Kate) and popped in to see what was going on at the Hofbrauhaus. It's absolutely *h u g e* and was full of people sitting at long tables. There was an oompah band and a huge beer garden. If one were to be drinking it looked like a good night out!

Sunday morning, we hit the road. Nick had mapped out a route based on some recommended parts of the autobahn (where there are many sections with no speed limit). We drove south to Fussen, stopping at a few sights along the way.

This is a little video of Nick driving.... for the weekend overall, our top speed was 248kms!



Fussen is a very pretty little town and it's where we stayed overnight. We had dinner at a local restaurant (called Zum Hechten) where we had great schnitzel and apfelstrudel ;-)

Next day we went past Neuschwanstein Castle, drove around with the top down and made it back to Munich in time to have some lunch and get to the airport.

Neuschwanstein Castle

For more professional photos of our trip, check out Nick's Flickr page... (this is a sponsored message)