Our drive to Munich wasn't that long, and our 116 mph made it go even quicker! Thank you autobahn!



Munich has been settled for over eight hundred years, and they still have four of the city gates here (north, south, east, west). Here is Karlstor, the western gate.



We walked around the main area, looked in shops, etc. Munich is really interesting because ever since the 1972 Olympics, much of the central part of the city is closed to vehicles, which makes for easy walking.





There is a church in that area called the Burgersaal where a Jesuit preacher named Rupert Mayer is buried. Back in the time of Hitler, Mayer warned his congregation against following the Nazis, and so he spent most of the war in prison. Once the war ended in 1945, he was able to preach again but sadly died the same year.







We had lunch at a very traditional German restaurant. I had a pretzel, sausages, and potatoes, and Justin had sausages as well as a potato salad that I really liked.





Back in the day the royalty of Bavaria used to live in a palace right here in the center of Munich. The palace is still here today and open to the public.

I'm realizing that people who built palaces were the type of people who had to have a room for every little thing. It's always like "and this is the room where they received their guests, and this is the room where they discussed political affairs, and this is their audience room (whatever that is), and this is the room where they made cookies, and this is the room where they ate them, and this is the room where they swept the crumbs into". Good grief! They would have saved a whole lot of time and money if they just could have done everything in one room!









We spent a lot of the day walking around, checking out the town. There are a lot of people here because of Oktoberfest, so things are pretty packed and you can't go anywhere without seeing people in lederhosen and dirndls.

The sky looked really cool at the end of the day by the train station. Blue and white also happen to be the official colors of Bavaria!