The next morning we headed out via streetcar for Schloss Nyphenburg, a palace where some of the descendants of the previous royal family still live. Only a few rooms are open to the public, but Rick Steves said the gardens were beautiful.
It's really big.
The main central hall was the most impressive room by far.
The rest are standard palace-type rooms, a little less fancy than the Residenz we visited a few days prior.
One of the princes had a bunch of portraits painted of women he considered to be his ideals of female perfection. What a creep!
The gardens really were impressive. We walked all the way down to the end and back. It was about a mile. My feet were reeealllly cold by the end.
We went back to Central Munich and stopped in one of the train stations for sandwiches. The existence of cheap, delicious sandwiches in street stalls across Europe was one of the most fascinating things to me about this trip. Why are American sandwiches so terrible?
Then we headed up to the Modern Art Museum, within walking distance of our hotel.
It was very good, a nice change of pace from seeing historical stuff.
And almost deserted.
After the museum we walked through the old city to our dinner reservation. There were lots of people out. It was so cold! Germans are tough.
We ran across this big rally in one of the central squares.
Later we did google translate: "We are all from somewhere! Anxiety? For sure! For a fear-free and open society." Ah, to live in such times.
The restaurant I chose for dinner was across the street from Hofbrauhaus, the most famous beer hall in Munich. We did not go inside.
Our restaurant (Ayingers) was great, though. So cozy.
And this picture reminds me that instead of a bread basket, in Munich you get a basket of pretzels.
I got some delicious venison in mushroom sauce, with spaetzle on the side.
Ben got pork knuckle with more dumplings.
On the way back we passed through the Marienplatz Christmas market once again, and this time lingered a bit to look at the stalls.
We got some Christmas ornaments!
And I finally got some gluhwein, and discovered that the reason Germans can walk around outside at night in the freezing cold is because they're full of hot wine.
I had to get a second one so we could have two souvenir mugs. Obviously!
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