Velkommen!

Welcome to Munich, home of Schloss Nymphenburg, palace of Kings. Probably. I didn't pay that much attention to the real history of this palace - I was too taken by the amazing decorations.

The palace in the photo above is the entrance. Then out the back is a huge garden filled with other buildings that are all amazing in their own right. There is a chapel whose walls and ceilings are covered in sea shells. There is a stables area with the most ridiculous, I mean fancy, carriages I have ever seen.




The pictures above are all from the Amalienburg building, a hunting lodge that was decorated in Rococco style and also in Chinoiserie (Chinese-inspired) style. I wanted to move in. Except that the dusting would have been a bit much.




The photos above are taken around the centre of Munich. Clockwise from the left, there is a gravestone along the side of the Frauenkirche, the Karlstor which is one of the original gates to the city, the view from the Frauenkirche dome and a random Free Tibet protest we happened to wander by.

One day in a place is not enough to really know it or to know much about it. But one day in Munich was pretty nice anyway.