The Alter Hof ...

Among the places we visited in the old city center of Munich, I liked this place specially because it has a small 'monkey' story behind it, as monkeys are one my favourite animals, I was fascinated by the place and the story. The Alter Hof, was also called as Ludwigsburg, was the first Munich residence of the Bavarian Royal family. The Emperor Ludwig of the Bavarian, ruled the Holy Roman Empire from here it seems. This place have a beautiful courtyard with a beautiful Late Gothic oriel known as the Affenturm (Monkey's Tower). Now to the story... there was a fire in this royal residence when Prince Ludwig was an Infant, and a pet monkey from the royal residence saved him and got him back safely only after the fire was extinguished. Now there is a very fine restaurant in that place with a small monkey logo and torch with flames. I took a cheesy touristy picture next to it....

More Munich!

I was surprised to see such a ‘wild’ nature, just in the heart of the city.

I told you…People were surfing in the heart of the city…

The Christmas market, with lots of hot wine, cookies and christmast stuff..and lots of people! Beautiful skyline of Munich More home made Christmas cookies, by Jenny... More of Munich

Nice Day!

Weather was much better, still cold ..no rain..baked Christmas cookies with Jenny, long walk into amazingly gorgeous English garden...believe me, people do surfing in heart of Munich...took tons of picture..(coming soon)

From Bavaria

With bit of turbulence in a baby Lufthansa flight, we arrived in Munich yesterday, Jenny (Micha´s sister) and Jo (her boy friend) drove us trough the city and took us to their huge house, .was very happy to see every thing so spacious and big in contrast to Paris, I was able to take a deep breath and recover from the claustrophobic feeling of Paris. Today the weather was not so great, very cold with bit of rain mixed with snow, but had a nice warm host... Jo took us around the city, we did some shopping and went around the old city center. We had some hot wine , which is a speciality of Germany during winter and Christmas called Glühwein . Had lunch in a very cute Bavarian restro. Not many pic today...thats Micha and Jo enjoying hot Glühwein, in cold snowy rain.I guess the weather is better tomorrow for exploring more of Munich.

A Friend in deed..

Finally its the day... I am leaving to Munich (hopefuly the fight will not be cancelled..its so windy today)..with my best friend Micha, for a long weekend, One very common feature of all my good friends is their Patience..its really takes lots of Patience to be my friend, to put up with my stupidity and talkative nature, with out any filter between brain? and mouth.. and specially Micha is an ocean of Patience..he puts up with my stupidity and still always nice to me....just like this cute monkey.. Its going to be lots of fun.. going around Christmas markets in Munich with him.