Downtown, Old City Munich September 16, 2019

Yesterday was a warm and long walk to the Old City part of Munich, which is also the "busy city" and downtown.  We began walking out of our peaceful neighborhood

and headed through the neighborhood where we passed a local bar/eatery getting ready for Oktoberfest which starts in THREE DAYS - we planned our departure to avoid the crowds! DW could not resist striking a pose.  What you don't see are the two pallets behind this one, also filled with a variety of kegs.  We learned that the wooden kegs will be tapped on Tuesday and Thursday this week (it's Monday today) and are part of the build up to Oktoberfest.  We will be back!

After walking quite a ways, the buildings began getting larger...This was the enormous and quite empty city square and we sat on a bench and took in the space for a while.  

Just beyond this square, we arrived at Marianplatz which is surrounded by multiple baroque buildings and a lot of commercialism which is busy and popular with tourists.  Difficult to take pictures because the buildings are enormous.

The Rathaus-Glockenspiel of Munich is a tourist attraction in Marienplatz, the heart of Munich. the Glockenspiel is in the tower of the New Town Hall at Marienplatz at and sounds at 11 a.m., noon and, except in the winter, also at 5 p.m.  We managed to miss all of these arriving after noon and leaving around 3 pm.  Munich's glockenspiel is the largest in Germany and 4th largest in Europe - its difficult to stand far enough away from the building to take in the whole structure including the steeple.

Danny in he middle of the crowds as we waited for the glockenspiel (never happened) eating a pretzel to keep his strength up.

       
       
Below is part of a sculpture in the middle of the square - I photographed it to capture the clouds. Just one more amazing weather day to experience during our three weeks of touring.

                   Passed this really sweet Vespa on the way home - unique color caught my eye.

We were out of place not wearing lederhosen and dirndls this week - traditional dress is making a huge comeback especially before Oktoberfest - there were pop up stores selling entire outfits.

 Last but not least a stop at the same bier haus we passed earlier to have a couple of German brews.  Not a lot of choices of taps but very refreshing.