Month: July 2024

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Pride Munich 2024

The Pride March was right in the center of Munich. It was interesting to see the first parade since the Phuket vegetarian festival when people stuck sharp things in their bodies (1995) and the first stage event since Tony Bennett in 2000. No, wait, Dinah Ross in 2017. There were tens of thousands of people and kilometers of people in the parade. It was quite a fun event.

Some famous german singer
Another famous german rapper
See the tin warrior?
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Euro 24 Soccer

in a few days the final game in this European soccer championship will be played and there will be a big party in the winners country. I visited when the games were in Munich. Here are some photos.

The scouts were all ready in their kilts and some and some were Pipers. They love German beer.
A sign in the subway station
The BMW museum is here at the Olympic Stadium area. Here is one of their iconic classics
The Scotts were everywhere and friendly with everybody
As you know BMW owns Rolls-Royce
You put some money in the machine and a robot makes your coffee for you and possibly serves you a snack
Beach volleyball along way from the beach
The Olympic swimming pool is now for Public use
The glockenspiel
Romanian fans were having a great time and singing their fan song
The Scot’s were competing with their songs and pipes. The Scots drew the biggest crowd
Hofbrau house was packed with more than 1000 customers
I didn’t know they had sales for police cars
It was nice to see a new lotus in the showroom. I remember the Elan from “the avengers”.
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Landshut, Munich – a happenstance gem

Landshut is a very old city, wonderful place to walk around, study the history and a very livable city as well. Transport to Munich is easy as are buses around town. There are monthly storage facilities if you need, which we did, and the Italian restaurant (Rossini) on the steps leading up to the castle is so fantastic. The food quality and pricing can’t be beat in this city.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landshut

The river was high
Cute Fiat with rear tires in the middle of the rear and fake wheel images on the back. Interesting
One church downtown. Bavaria is very catholic.
An exhibition in one church
Shopping main street
Typical local food
The main church
Organ inside the church
City hall
, cup with no handle
Fruit drink and a huge cappuccino, cup with no handle
The castle
Rossini’s superb quattro formaggi and spaghetti oil and chili pepper
Matketing.
Nice sandwich and a cappuccino
Pretty good wheat beer at a local beer garden
The old city gate.
Lederhosen
A matching vest
An excellent weisenbier made at the local brewery and served here at an italian restaurant in the shopping area.
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Freising – Bavaria. 1,000 year old beer

this little town is very old and very interesting. It is where the former pope Benedict was made a priest and it has the oldest continuous brewery in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freising

This Rubens painting is a replica. the original has been moved to a museum.
The decorations in the cathedral were done by two brothers. One did the stucco work and the other one did the painting.
This cape stucco work was the only part of the cathedral that the two brothers worked on together.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freising_Cathedral

This brewery is over 1000 years old and therefore is the oldest continuously operating brewery in the world , or so they say.