A Great Excuse to Tour my City

After Zurich was Easter. My Easter was fairly low key this year. I went with Sam to the Munich International Community Church at 4:00 for their Easter service and afterwards went out to eat with the usual group of folks from church. In the past two times I had been there I had really appreciated how welcoming and friendly people were and I decided spending Easter in with people I’ve gotten to know a bit would be nice. It was.

The next day, Monday, my friend Brad from U of M came to visit for a bit. He’s currently studying in Zaragoza in Spain but had been given a week off on account of the Easter holidaying. With that time he came to visit me. Hooray! I’ve been rather fond of telling people that having visitors gives me a chance to see things in Munich I have yet to see. Brad’s visit fit that bill exactly.

Once Brad had made it safely to my room and dropped off his stuff, we ventured off to the city center for a bit of sight seeing. In doing so I finally got my aerial view of Munich. Take a looksie:






We walked through the Englischer Gartens, in all it’s naked-sunbather glory. Got another nice view of the city:



And went into the Frauenkirche, one of Munich’s most recognizable landmarks.






There are a lot of important Munich and Church figures buried in the Frauen Kirche. On top of Louis IV's (he was a Holy Roman Emperor) grave, in the back corner of the church, was a sculpture-clad sarcophagus that looked a bit like a wheel-less carriage. Here here:




One of the pieces of folklore about the church involves a story about the devil and the church windows. I can’t remember it all that well, but it has something to do with the devil making a deal with the builder that no windows were to be built into the church. When one stands in a particular spot at the entrance to the church they cannot see any of the church windows because they are blocked by pillars. As legend has it the devil saw this view and let the church be consecrated, only to take a step forward and see everything. In anger he left his footprint at the spot where you can't see any of the windows. It looks like this:



After a day of touring we went into the University area to eat some good German food before jumping then to the film museum where we saw a “Dirty Harry” movie. The film museum has been on a bit of a Clint Eastwood kick of late and, consequently, so have we.

Stay tuned team, more to come! Soon! Hopefully!?