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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.
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Konstanz (Germany) – Kreuzlingen (Switzerland)

a foot demonstration
clean and colorful, typical Swiss train

Konstanz, Germany is on a beautiful touristy lake on the border with Switzerland. We found it cheaper to stay across the border 50 meters than to have a hotel near Konstanz station. The Swiss town is Kreuzlingen and as typical with Switzerland everything but the hotel was more expensive than in Germany, double in many instances. We found Konstanz to be a much more beautiful environment as well. A thing to remember is the currency difference. Euros are not used in Switzerland or Liechenstein. They use Swiss Francs. Now the US Dollar, Euro and Swiss Franc are about equal, give or take a few pennies so it’s pretty easy for merchants to accept the neighbor’s currency and make the calculations. Another thing to note is prepaid phone sim cards don’t cross this border without subscribing to some special, and expensive, roaming service. So I just bought a Swiss sim and switched back when back in an EU country. The signal disappears 5 meters from the border. Those phone companies surely are jealous about a few pennies.

ST. Stephan has some old murals. Note that many of the 17th century churches were built on top of or to expand 13th century churches.
german sausages
Munster Unserer Lieben Frau is built on old tunnels designed for pilgrims.
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Fairytale castle – Neuschwanstein – Crazy Ludwig’s (II) castle

a photoshop version

There are 2 castles close together. Hohenschwangau was built on top of a 13th century castle ruin by Ludwig II’s father and the fairytale castle (Neuschwanstein) was built by Ludwig II, also known as “crazy Ludwig” (found insane after bankrupting the family and then mysteriously died). This castle here is probably the most famous icon of Germany and is really amazing to see, though both castles are expensive to enter. Best to book Neuschwanstein a month in advance so you get a good visit time. With both castles you only get a 45 or so minute tour so it isn’t really anything close to the in depth tour of the Munich Residence.

as seen from Hohenschwangau
as seen from the bridge
long way down on the bridge
totally crowded
views from the castle
Hohenschwangau as seen from Ludwig’s castle
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Füssen – castle entrance town

This little town is the cute entry to the two amazing castles up above, one of which is the famous fairytale castle built by Ludwig II. We had to try the sauerbraten. It wasn’t as good as my mothers but as you can see, it was good enough.

In order to get completely stuffed, we had pizza after sauerbraten.

We found a place that served somewhat delicious Thai food.
Classic motorcycle bikers in town for fun
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Erfurt – near Munich

It’s alive

We stayed here to launch into Munich for a few days. It’s a cheaper place to stay. And it is cute little old town.

Every town needs an obelisk
Enter only with a ticket. But no one is checking