Showing posts with label Munich Tales 2018. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Munich Tales 2018. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 01, 2019

Complete compendium of 2018 travelogues: Porto, Gdansk and Munich.

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Diana and I are exceedingly fortunate to have been able to visit Europe three times in 2018. We're very well matched as travel partner...
Monday, December 24, 2018

Munich Tales 2018: The city's stellar airport should be a festive place to say goodbye to Christmas in Germany.

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That's right. The airport , where we'll be on Christmas Eve as the way back home begins. Munich Airport's Christmas Market Ha...
Sunday, December 23, 2018

Munich Tales 2018: A six-pack of Munich beer and food.

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This post was inevitable, don't you think? The 11 best places to drink beer in Munich , by Barbara Woolsey ( Time Out ) In Munic...
Saturday, December 22, 2018

Munich Tales 2018: The Bavarian revolution of 1918-19, and whether independence retains any appeal today.

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Bavaria is a province ( Land ) in the modern federal parliamentary republic of Germany. From 1805 to 1918, Bavaria was a kingdom, which r...
Friday, December 21, 2018

Munich Tales 2018: What would the holidaze be without "beer and the pissoir"?

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Photo credit. I'm writing these words on the 15th of December, imagining that on the morning of the 21st, I'll have consumed to...
Thursday, December 20, 2018

Munich Tales 2018: Everything I like about Germany is tied up in one great package called Bamberg.

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At this point in my life, there's probably nothing I can add to numerous previous statements of intense personal affection for the ci...
Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Munich Tales 2018: "The Beer Hall Putsch Tour."

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Perhaps the ultimate expression of beer in political terms was Adolf Hitler's "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munich in 1923. One nee...
Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Munich Tales 2018: "Mad" King Ludwig II and his Neuschwanstein Castle -- among others.

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It has adorned thousands of postcards, jigsaw puzzles, screen savers and probably elementary school lunch boxes. Unfortunately, Neuschw...
Monday, December 17, 2018

Munich Tales 2018: Christmas markets are special in Germany, and so it looks like some mulled wine for us.

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Marienplatz, Munich ( photo credit ). Our first taste of a German (or in this specific instance, Bavarian) Christmas market came in 200...