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The New Town Hall (Neues Rathaus) in Marienplatz, Munich12-Aug-2009 18:02SONY DSC-W55, 7.1, 6.3mm, 0.00625 sec, ISO 100	The New Town Hall (Neues Rathaus) in Marienplatz, Munich12-Aug-2009 18:03SONY DSC-W55, 7.1, 6.3mm, 0.01 sec, ISO 100	The Old Town Hall in Marienplatz, Munich12-Aug-2009 18:18SONY DSC-W55, 7.1, 6.3mm, 0.0020 sec, ISO 100
The west side of the Residence Palace – the original building was severely damaged in WWII, and was rebuilt with most of the original architectural details missing12-Aug-2009 18:36SONY DSC-W55, 7.1, 6.3mm, 0.01 sec, ISO 100	Eidan in the Apothekenhof courtyard of the Residence Palace12-Aug-2009 18:45SONY DSC-W55, 7.1, 6.3mm, 0.00625 sec, ISO 100	The Feldherrnhalle in Odeonsplatz, Munich12-Aug-2009 18:59SONY DSC-W55, 2.8, 6.3mm, 0.0020 sec, ISO 100
The Theatinerkirche church in Odeonsplatz, Munich (this is a clumsy stitch of two photos, as I couldn’t get back far enough to get the whole building in one photo)12-Aug-2009 18:57SONY DSC-W55, 7.1, 6.3mm, 0.0025 sec, ISO 100	The neoclassical Banqueting Hall wing (Festsaalbau) of the Residence Palace12-Aug-2009 19:02SONY DSC-W55, 3.5, 9.4mm, 0.0025 sec, ISO 100	Eidan and Kai in the Hofgarten12-Aug-2009 19:04SONY DSC-W55, 2.8, 6.3mm, 0.00625 sec, ISO 100
The Temple of Diana in the Hofgarten12-Aug-2009 19:06SONY DSC-W55, 7.1, 6.3mm, 0.0050 sec, ISO 100	The Bavarian State Chancellery on the east end of the Hofgarten12-Aug-2009 20:44SONY DSC-W55, 7.1, 6.3mm, 0.0050 sec, ISO 100	Not only was there a Vietnamese restaurant in the Munich Central Station, they served pho!12-Aug-2009 17:39SONY DSC-W55, 2.8, 6.3mm, 0.025 sec, ISO 250

If there is one thing I could change about our trip this summer, I would have spent more time in Munich. We scheduled it as only a stop-over between Legoland and Plzeň. We arrived in the early evening in the modern and busy Munich Central Station, hungry for dinner. I was about to resign myself to Burger King when I noticed that not only was there a small Vietnamese restaurant, but they served pho! It actually wasn’t bad either (for traveling pho hunters, the restaurant is named Asia and it’s on the ground floor – see the final picture in the set above). We then took a subway to where we thought our hotel was, but it wasn’t there. After wandering around for a while with luggage and kids in tow, trying to find it, we finally surrendered to the idea of taking a cab.

After a decent night’s sleep in our tiny hotel room’s bunk beds, we had just a few hours to explore before our train to Plzeň. We didn’t have a chance to do any tourism research before arriving, and unlike Budapest, we couldn’t get online in our hotel room to do last minute planning. The hotel desk attendant gave us a map and some flyers written in German, and so we set out on our most poorly planned venture yet.

But we actually did well. With so little time available, we decided to take the subway to Marienplatz, and then explore on foot from there. After being suitably dazzled by the New Town Hall (Neues Rathaus – I’m not so sure it’s a coincidence that the name for a building full of politicians sounds an awful lot like rat house in English), we headed north to the sprawling Residence Palace. Then we hunted for lunch and a bathroom through Odeonsplatz and the Hofgarten. The day was warm and sunny – the boys got some badly needed running around time in the garden area, and we had a nice lunch in an adjacent outdoor Italian restaurant. After lunch we hurried back to the subway, which got us to the Central Station just in time for our train to Plzeň.

So we got only a small taste of Munich, but it struck both Maria and I as a very pleasant and livable city.

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