I caught an early train from Salzburg and arrived with 5 mins spare to join the free walking tour of Munich. Such a busy city with tourists everywhere and the weather was perfect!
Highlights:
Seeing the glockenspiel perform at the Marienplatz (watched this on a Contiki tour when I was 22!)
The Palace entrance
Learning that 90% of Munich was destroyed in 2nd world war and so few original buildings remain
The famous Hofbrauhaus
Then met a friend of a friend who took me on a further walk around to see some more sights.
Highlights:
Watching surfing on a man made wave canal!
English garden walk through - so many picnicking, swimming, sunbaking, playing volleyball etc
Chinese tower with full oompah band playing
German sausage and potato salad lunch with a Radler beer
Finished the day off by meeting my fellow volunteer English tutors for a drink and dinner. I applied to be a volunteer English teacher but all programs for the season were full. I said I was happy to be on standby and got the call up! Tomorrow I head to a rural location to be an English tutor for a residential English emersion experience. More will be revealed tomorrow.
Great bunch of interesting and varied volunteers.
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