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Confusion in Munich on Christmas day

Merry Christmas again!

We spent Christmas day in Munich and a few useums had reopened. Unfortunately, the BMW museums wasn't one of them even though the tourist information place outside the Munich train station told us they would be open. So after a short subway ride to Olympic Park and a long walk around in cold during which we got directions from several locals and spole to several other cold, confused tourists (lots os people expected the museum to be open and no one could find the actual entrance) we found out that it was closed. We never did find the entrance - I was pretty surprised there were no signs except for one that said 'BMW museum' in front of an empty parking lot.

Confused and cold, we got back on the subway and headed toward Marienplatz. There we found the toy museum which was a waste of 10 minutes for us. 3 euros each seemed like a fortune considering to the size of this place. I suppose if you really liked teddy bears or toys you could spend 20-30 minutes in there...

Then we went to Stadt Museum which was quite good. Surprisingly for a large museum almost none of the signs had English translations but we enjoyed looking at the musical intstruments and puppets anyway. This museum was free on Christmas day so that made up for the 6 euros we wasted on the toy museum.

In between museums we had more Bavarian food and Munich beer in a beer hall. We're not sure what we'll end up doing for dinner. Last night we had kebab since nearly evervthing was closed. We noticed many places closing at 3:00 today so we may be in for some more kebab or something...

Tomorrow I probably won't get to blog as we'll be at the castle all day...

Posted by James Trotta at December 26, 2007 3:17 PM | TrackBack