We headed into the city on the train and after finally figuring out which train ticket to buy we made our way to the Englischer Garten. It's a huge city park - larger than Central Park or Hyde Park. We meandered through the park and found the Chinese Tower with a band playing and the (apparently) oldest beergarden in Munich. Litres of beer were bought, sausages, pork knuckle, sauerkraut, potatoes and we feasted before the boys played in the nearby playground. A very sensible idea to have a playground right next to a beergarden, we thought!
Tuesday
Breakfast was apparently €19.50 each with no reduction for children, which seemed a bit steep (possible understatement) so Nick was dispatched to the nearby supermarket and bakery to get our breakfast - it's going to take some detoxing to get us used to our normal breakfast when we get home! We took the SBahn into the city and then spent the morning looking round the Altstadt (old town).
We finished up back near a different part of the Englischer Garten to watch people surfing on the river. Never seen anything like it before - it was cool to watch and the boys loved it.
After a morning of sightseeing, the two littlest boys were ready for something a little more for them and so we went to the Deutsches Museum which is a science museum in the city. The basement is geared towards kids and has interactive stuff for them to do. It's absolutely huge upstairs but some of the museum is still very old-fashioned whereas other parts are much more interactive.
We managed to find some interesting, more hands-on parts and finished in the maths section :) We were herded out of the museum with hundreds of others at 4.55pm as it was closing at 5pm - they'd already started turning the lights off!
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| Reuben running for his Daddy! |
We finished up back near a different part of the Englischer Garten to watch people surfing on the river. Never seen anything like it before - it was cool to watch and the boys loved it.
After a morning of sightseeing, the two littlest boys were ready for something a little more for them and so we went to the Deutsches Museum which is a science museum in the city. The basement is geared towards kids and has interactive stuff for them to do. It's absolutely huge upstairs but some of the museum is still very old-fashioned whereas other parts are much more interactive.
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| The Deutsches Museum |
We managed to find some interesting, more hands-on parts and finished in the maths section :) We were herded out of the museum with hundreds of others at 4.55pm as it was closing at 5pm - they'd already started turning the lights off!
Wednesday was BMW and Olympic day. BMW welt and Olympic park are right next to each other do we decided to spend the whole day there. BMW world was, well, exactly what you would expect it to be! A huge showroom with BMW cars and motorbikes, Rolls Royce cars and Minis. You couldn't get in the Rolls Royce, unsurprisingly, but all of the others you could. Reuben and I sat in tag cafe while the two big boys satisfied their car urges and then we went to the museum. Having been around more than my fair share of car museums in the last few weeks, I have to say this wasn't my favourite. Although the design of the building both inside and out was beautiful, I found the actual museum didn't seem to flow very well. Or maybe I'm just done with car museums!
After lunch we walked over to the Olympic park. There is currently a summer fair on for August and Zach and I took a ride on the 'wild maus'. Zach laughed the whole way round - it was great! We then went into the Olympic stadium for a look around. The scale is huge, of course, and the tent-like roof is amazing now so it must have looked even more futuristic over 40 years ago. There was also an exhibition about Munich 72 which was really interesting but having thought I was off the hook after explaining the Cold War and the Berlin Wall, I was firmly back on it trying to explain the events to a 6 year old. After climbing to the highest point of the stadium (well, Reuben and I did but Nick was too scared so Zach looked after him), we left the stadium in search of an icecream.
Back to the hotel and an early night ahead of Thursday's excitement.
After lunch we walked over to the Olympic park. There is currently a summer fair on for August and Zach and I took a ride on the 'wild maus'. Zach laughed the whole way round - it was great! We then went into the Olympic stadium for a look around. The scale is huge, of course, and the tent-like roof is amazing now so it must have looked even more futuristic over 40 years ago. There was also an exhibition about Munich 72 which was really interesting but having thought I was off the hook after explaining the Cold War and the Berlin Wall, I was firmly back on it trying to explain the events to a 6 year old. After climbing to the highest point of the stadium (well, Reuben and I did but Nick was too scared so Zach looked after him), we left the stadium in search of an icecream.
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| Nick gripping the chair for dear life! |
Back to the hotel and an early night ahead of Thursday's excitement.
Thursday was Legoland day. Zach was ridiculously excited. It's a 1hr 20 minute drive from Munich to Legoland so we set off at 8.30 so we could be there by 10 when it opened. Reuben was surprisingly ok in the car as an hour is usual his limit but I only had to resort to fruit pastille a for the last 15 minutes. It was also great to meet up with the Scanga family there - Zach loved having someone to play with and it was great for Reuben to see his buddy Benjamin again. Fun on the rides, in the playground and then an incredibly rainstorm where we were soaked through. We managed to find each other again (Nick and Zach had gone a different way to find shelter), and the Scangas headed off for their new campsite.
We spent another hour or so trying to keep dry while going on rides but soon enough there was bright sunshine again. Zach finished the day by going on his favourite ride for the second time and then we drove back to Munich.
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| Reuben's first ride |
We spent another hour or so trying to keep dry while going on rides but soon enough there was bright sunshine again. Zach finished the day by going on his favourite ride for the second time and then we drove back to Munich.
Friday was our last day so we gave Zach free choice as to what he wanted to do. He decided on a toy shop in the morning (we did a little shopping too) and got himself a new hot wheel. We went to a traditional brauhaus for lunch which was delicious schnitzel for the kids and me and a steak for Nick washed down with weissbier and apple juice.
We then headed back over to the Olympic park in the afternoon for some crazy golf (Zach was on a roll and got a hole in one on the first hole but Nick recovered well to take victory).
After a crazy coloured slushie, we took a ride up the Olympic tower, all 185m of it. Nick held it together and there were some pretty amazing views across the whole of Munich and to the mountains beyond.
A nice end to our Munich stay.
We then headed back over to the Olympic park in the afternoon for some crazy golf (Zach was on a roll and got a hole in one on the first hole but Nick recovered well to take victory).
After a crazy coloured slushie, we took a ride up the Olympic tower, all 185m of it. Nick held it together and there were some pretty amazing views across the whole of Munich and to the mountains beyond.
A nice end to our Munich stay.
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