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Saturday, 4 July
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This trip starts with the German ICE train from Aarhus kl. 7.53. Sharp.
It is a German train.
To get rid of students and children's families I make the trip on
Interrail-1 class. It works fine until Skanderborg, where the 3 seats
around me is taken with what I think are 3 teenagers. Only when a
teenager 1 refers teenager 2 as "mother", I find out it probably is more
of the category "family". Mother, son and daughter, it appears.
The train is in Hamburg. 12:31 - sharp.
Hamburg is well-known place. Hotel Condor too. I also stayed here last
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Sightseeing is also wellknown. It does not matter. 2 walks - one short
and one long.
First the long one. Down to the renovated warehouses of Speicherstadt
and Hafen City. From there, I pass along Landungsbrücke with people and
tours of the harbour. Then I go to the autonomous St Pauli with
graffitti, dubious bars and what is worse. From there, I take the U-bahn
back home.
The short trip is through the shopping street Möckenberger Strasse to
The Town Hall and the small lake Innenalster. Hamburg is the only city I
know where the center is actually a lake. From here I return back home.
The first - but not last - Karrywurst by a streetkitchen makes it off
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Sunday, 5 July
Departures with ICE kl. 9.38. It’s on time and arrives in Munich kl.
15.43.
My hotel - Hotel Monaco – is located in the sleezy station neighborhood.
The hotel is however nicely. After check-in it is the time for the first
look at Munich. The ambition is obviously to find Emperor Franz.
It fails. Instead I take a look at the big Frauenkirche with its 99
meter high towers. No buildings in Munich center may be higher. |
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From there, I am going to Mariaplatz and Munichs impressive City Hall.
The Germans builds beautiful townhalls. This is where Bayern Munich
tends to be celebrating when they won another salad bowl. However, it is
not therefore, the place is filled with tourists. They are here to see
the small mechanical puppet theater, which takes place at the City Hall
facade, every hour on the hour.
Then it is dinner before it gets "Gewitter" in the form of a shower.
However, it is enough for me. I head back to Monaco again. |
Monday, 6 July
"Bewölkert and Gewitter" is today's weatherforecast. And "Gewitter" it
is in the morning. It is raining cats and dogs, and today's trip is
delayed.
At 11 I can get out. It is still raining, so my expectation is to see
thousands of Bayern people in yellow raincoats. But I am disappointed.
There are plenty of raincoats, but the yellow one has gone completely
out of fashion.
Today's walk is taken from Lonely Planet. First the old City Hall, then
Viktualienmarkt, then some shopping-streets before lunch at a local
restaurant.
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Then I continue through the center to the Residenz, which is an old
palace. There are several museums that I can skip. I continue to
Englischer Garten, which is Munichs huge park. Here you can see young
people surfing on a river. Today's journey ends at the Chinese Tower in
the center of the park. There is a big "Bier-Garten", so I can finish
with a decent beer. In the middle of it, it is "Gewitter" again so all
people have to flee with their beers in their hands, and seek cover
under the tower.
From here I take the underground home. Dinner is at a local place.
Video - raining in Englischer Garten
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Tuesday, 7 July
Daytrip to Regensburg by train. It is necessary so I can use all my 10
traveldays on my Interrail card.
There are departure at 9.44 and the trip takes 1 ½ hours.
Regensburg is a beautiful medieval city. It is well maintained and there
are many beautiful streets, and the Danube runs trogh the town.
The attractions include the Schloss Turm & Taxis. To see the inside you
have to take a tour and I don’t want to do that. So I see it from
outside instead. The castlechurch Basilica St. Emmeran is, however, open
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There is also a cathedral called St. Peter. It is big and powerful. I
cross the Danube by an old stone bridge. On the other side, there are
nice neighborhoods, and almost no tourists. Here is the Spitalgarten, a
beergarten associated with a local brewery. They serve a great snitzel
and a good draft. Then I cross the Danube again and via some shopping
streets return to the station and the train back to Munich.
On the way back it is "Gewitter" again and it keeps on most of the
evening, so I only get out for a quick evening-walk for my
evening-sausage and a visit to the local gaminghall. |
Wednesday 8 July
The search for Munichs biggest attraction Emperor Franz - also known as
Franz Beckenbauer - continues in the morning. A natural place to look
may be the Olympic Stadium, where he was world champion in 1974.
First I get up into the Olympic Tower. Out on the platform 200 meters
up, there is an impressive view and it’s very windy.
Stadium is located right beside the tower. You can not get into it, but
it doesn’t matter. The remarkable roof, you might as well see from the
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After a walk in the Olympic Park, I take the train into the Münchener
Freiheit, which in this context is not a German pop band, but a U-bahn
station. It thought it was a bohemian quarter, but it is rather boring.
So I continue to the center where I go for a walk around the myriad of
Munich Bier-Stuben. It gives me a natural hunger and thirst, which can
is handled by a "Snitzel mit kartoffelsalat" plus draftbeer at Hofer.
Later, I take a tram to Schloss Nymphenbourg. It is large and pompously.
Inside, there are museums, which I skip. Behind, however, there is
access to a very nice park.
Night tour is a walk around the center before it starts to rain. This
was Munich – and I never got to meet Franz. |
To Berchtesgaden
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