Sausages, beer and more sausages - Munich and Nurnberg



Marienplatz



After a week in Bavaria, it was a good thing that we left when we did. As much as we wanted to keep eating, I don't think our bodies could take anymore sausages, pretzels, potato salad and beer. Eating is one of our favorite activities to do while in Bavaria and Munich and Nurnburg were the perfect places to do it.

Out first stop was in Munich. We rented a very tiny apartment for 3 nights, which gave us plenty of time to explore the city. We hit all of the major sites including Marionplatz. We were so lucky to have decent weather and many people were out. One of the nights we were there, Munich was hosting Naples in a soccer match. The Italians made the city very lively and you could hear chants everywhere.

We stopped in the famous Hofbrauhaus to have a tradional liter of beer. We learned that a beer venue can only technically be called a beer garden if it is under chestnut trees.


Hofbrauhaus



Marienplatz

Just like in other places we have visited, Chloe is a popular attration with the Japanese tourists. The white, blonde hair makes her a novelty and people are always wanting to take her picture. Craig was joking that Chloe's picture is probably hanging in many Japenese living rooms. If only they knew that under that angelic white hair there was a crazy three year old ready to have a meltdown and any moment!

We scrapped our plans to go to Legoland at the last minute and went to Nurnberg and Playmobile Fun Park instead. We were pleasantly surprised with Nurnberg. Nurnberg was one of the cities heavily destroyed during WWII. They did an amazing job rebuilding that you hardly noticed that many of the building were barely a half centry old. Nurnberg is famous for 2 things - besides the trials. Lebkuchen, soft gingerbread cookies and sausages, which are sold everywhere!

Our Diet in Bavaria: Sausages, pretzels, beer, potato salad and sauerkraut.

The Playmobile Fun Park was great. All of the attractions were interactive and were exact replicas of actual Playmobile toys. They also had a huge indoor playground and a seperate play area with all of the Playmobile toys. Also, in typical German fashion, they also have their own beer garden. What is not to love about Germany!!