LOCATION: Munich, Germany | City Center
APPEARING: Steffi | Your\'s Truly
APPEARING: Steffi | Your\'s Truly
Munich turned 850 years old today. I know, bizarre for an American to try to understand... I mean, 850 years ago Native Americans still had no idea about the absolute decimation of their populations that was a few centuries off in the future. It's also bizarre because only 70 years ago Hitler was causing a scene in Europe. And yet, the idea of almost a thousand years of continuity in a place is there. The Holocaust just a blip near the tail end... the end closest to us.
Needless to say some of the locals got dressed up in their finest traditional clothing... spanning most of the 850 years (no tiny mustaches however). The streets were packed. Sausages were being sold on every corner. And the Bavarian beer flowed into mugs detailed with icons of the city: Bavaria, Olympic Park, Deutches Museum, Hofbrau Haus.
P.s. The last two images aren't totally honest: we each posed with the other's beer so it looked like we had double... and the drink was actually Radler (which comes from the word for bicyclist), a combination of lemonade and beer that cyclists drink in the biergarten so they don't get drunk.
Needless to say some of the locals got dressed up in their finest traditional clothing... spanning most of the 850 years (no tiny mustaches however). The streets were packed. Sausages were being sold on every corner. And the Bavarian beer flowed into mugs detailed with icons of the city: Bavaria, Olympic Park, Deutches Museum, Hofbrau Haus.
P.s. The last two images aren't totally honest: we each posed with the other's beer so it looked like we had double... and the drink was actually Radler (which comes from the word for bicyclist), a combination of lemonade and beer that cyclists drink in the biergarten so they don't get drunk.
