The Adventures of Rose: Adv. 12 München

Tuesday: i arrived a bright an early time of 6am after a shortlived attempt at sleep in a half upright train seat. And set off to Munich with Ka because she had a couple of uni classes there. well i could definitely tell the difference in temperature, didnt have to wear gloves or hat even had to take my jacket off at some points. It was a nice sunny day.

I walked around and managed to get very lost because i didnt have a map, and so ended up jumping on and off trains trying to see if i could find any of the places i had written down to see.

well i did see some really really cool rococo churches. AMAZING architecture is rococo. but the thing i noticed most is how cold is was inside. ( right: theatiner St Kajeten italian baroque style)

(left: St Johann Nepomuk Kirche by Asam brothers pioneers of Rococo)

I tried to find some art museums, but the one i finally found wasn't there any more that was annoying.

(left: new town hall)
Wednesday: Ka and i took the train to munich today, we went on the New Munich Free walking tour, same company as in Berlin. we had an Australian guide, who entertained us and informed us of munich history for three hours. she was really good i thought. she spoke pretty fast though, and i think Ka didnt understand all of it, but she learnt some things that she didnt know before, like why when the germans drink beer, they raise their beer mugs, cheers

, then plonk them on the table before drinking :) its because they serve beer in 1 litre jugs and back in the day thats what the king did cos it was too heavy for him and all the people copied him!!! (right: ka and I outside new town hall)

well we saw the glockenspeil play on the new town hall (well the australian guide took the piss mostly :) i see why ) we heard all about the history of munich and the kings of Bavaria, we learnt the legend of how the devil helped build the Frauenkirche, Cathedral of our Lady, in just 20 years, ate lunch in the

Viktualienmarkt, Munich's famous market square, and went into the Hofbrauhaus: a huge beer hall, with live Barvarian music, guys playing accordian dressed in green kilts :) and heaps of other stuff...

(left: Cathedral of our Lady)

Then we went shopping!!!!

It took us a while to find the art gallery that i wanted to go to, ut eventually we made it to the Stadische Galerie de Lenbachhaus. It was AMAZING!!! they had a really extensive collection of Blaue Reiter works. I went into a room and was surrounded by the coolest Kandinksky works ever!!! that was the best thing that day, he is my favourite painter i think, and these particualr works were AMAZING. there were also some cool Franz Marc works, and Sigmar Polke, Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys. It was great to see these works that i was familiar with and also to see some stuff that i wasnt so familiar with like, Robert Delauney and Paul Klee, Alexej Jawlensky.
And they had a show of some contempory artists, which was great too.

(above: franz ackerman Tourist 2004)
Franz Ackerman and Andreas Hofer. these actually required me to stop and contemplate for a while what their work was about.