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On Saturday I decided to go sightseeing in Munich, because I haven't done it properly yet! I was so lucky with the weather, it was warm and the sun was shining all day long. My day: Nymphenburg Palace i. e., "Castle of the Nymph (or Nymphs)", is a Baroque palace in Munich,Bavaria, southern Germany. The palace is the main summer residence of the former rulers of Bavaria of the House of Wittelsbach. Lots of swans Nymphenburg Palace, around 1760, as painted by Bernardo Bellotto. . The Great Hall- ceiling And few more ceilings Asam Church is a church in Munich, southern Germany, built from 1733 to 1746 by the brothers Egid Quirin Asam and Cosmas Damian Asam as their private church. Due to resistance of the citizens, the brothers were forced to make the church accessible to the public. The church is considered to be one of the most important buildings of the main representatives of the southern German Late Baroque. It is much more...different to see with your own eyes. So many details and pictures, it was amazing! Small, but interesting part of a big wall-painting inside the church On my way to English Garden.. So simple but beautiful Everyone was enjoying Vegetarian lunch in the park On my way to Pinakothek Art Museum, I also saw.. Munich Residenz is the former royal palace of the Bavarian monarchs of the House of Wittelsbach in the centre of the city of Munich, Germany. I had no time to visit the museum this day, but will definitely do it before I return to Finland! Just look at this picture... Marienplatz is a central square in the city centre of Munich, Germany. It has been the city's main square since 1158. A quick view over Marienplatz from the St. Peter's church Königsplatz (King's Square) is a square in Munich. Built in the style of European Neo-Classicism in the 19th century, it is a center of cultural life. As a beautiful and monumental place, the Königplatz was used during the Third Reich as a square for the Nazi Party's mass rallies. It's next to my school! Finally the Pinakothek Art Museum. This time I visited only the Alte Pinakothek: 14th-18th century art. Next time will visit the Neue Pinakothek: 18th-19th century art. There is also a whole building for the modern art, but I'm not very interested in it.. I like Munich :) Don't you?
Tomorrow starts my wholesale company introduction-learning time for the next two weeks. I will see and learn all the phases of the wholesale work, logistics etc. This is what my exchange school is all about-wholesale and trade. And on Easter holiday I am planning to go to Austria, Salzburg. But this is for later ;) Our destination we did not complete. We are not any experts in mountain hiking(climbing). We just picked one cool mountain with a proper lenght and time, and to be honest... we just liked the picture from the top... BUT..it's not summer yet. It's spring and there is still SNOW, and not just white sweet soft snow. The route on the top was icy, slippery and very dangerous. We thought that maybe it gets better soon, so we continued...and in a 10 min we all suddenly got panic and realised how dangerous it was to go up. Only 25 min seperated us from the top. Everyone else, who were hiking there had proper boots with nails and other equiment. I had just some nothing-special hiking shoes and the other two had running shoes.. The route in this picture is almost okei, it got even worse. Unfortunately, we didn't make any good picture up there. I guess we were just too scared Some gravestones up there...very encouraging! On the right...It was a looong long way down before the real forest started again... Luckily the rest of the trip was easy-medium, fun and sunny :) When the horror began..the red colour shows that it's not easy ..coming down :) finally we walked to train station Altogether 17 km and about 5-6 hours
I have been travelling few times already around Germany alone, but this time I was with a nice Estonian girl, who is an exchange student from Tartu University living in Augsburg at the moment. I wrote to community in Facebook, Estonians in Germany, is there someone who wants to join with me sometimes? She wrote to me and in a few days we went on a trip together. Although the weather wasn't the best, it was really fun day. First we went to Nuremberg (Nürnberg) and then to Rothenburg ob der Tauber. Both were like fairytale-towns, with really old churches, castles and other buildings. Some pictures for you: NÜRNBERG St. Lorenz church Nuremberg castle Old town of Nuremberg Fountain ROTHENBURG OB DE TAUBER those sweet streets... Hobbit must be living here :D German cuisine
It's tuesday, 10.03.15 and I had a day-off from school today, due to the German classes today. Good timing, because the weather was awsome, it was warm and sunny. I couldn't stay at home, so I went to visit Neuschwanstein castle and the old town of Füssen near by the castle. I bought a Bavarian day ticket from the ticket machine in the Munich railway station, which cost me 23 euros. The tour ticket cost 11 eur for a student (12 eur for others :D ). One way was about 2.45-3 hours by trains and busses. Early bird Bought the ticket, you can see the castle on the background Neuschwanstein Castle was built between 1869 and 1886 under King Ludwig II of Bavaria. This kind of castle in these years?! It is very interesting story behind that castle.. King Ludwig was forced onto the throne before he was 20, and, in just two years, suffered a crushing military defeat which was a huge blow to Bavaria. The young King appeared to also have a rather troubled personality. So, rather than tackle his disappointments and failures head-on, he immersed himself a fantasy-world of building fairytale castles. The king was a romantic, a friend and suporter of composer Richard Wagner, and he hired theatrical set designers rather than architects to design his castles. Neuschwanstein Castle is the ultimate result of his obsessions (or, some would say, his gathering insanity). King Ludwig grew up in neighbouring Hohenschwangau castle.This perhaps explains his adult fascination with Medieval folklore and history - he had been a real little prince, who had grown up in a real little castle. Neuschwanstein Castle, perched on a rugged hill in front of the Alpine foothills near Füssen, in southwest Bavaria, Germany. This cliff-top creates more than its fair share of headaches for modern maintenance-men. Natural erosion and weathering is destabilising the bedrock beneath the castle, a potential ecological time-bomb. This is being managed by netting the cliffs, and searching for engineering solutions. Neuschwanstein in 1886- Every part of Neuschwanstein reflects the troubled and eccentric life of King Ludwig. Had it been completed, the palace would have had more than 200 interior rooms, including premises for guests and servants, as well as for service and logistics. Ultimately, no more than about 15 rooms and halls were finished The Throne Hall was inspired by Byzantine churches and in particular the All Saints Court Church in Munich. This combination of church and throne room illustrates Ludwig's interpretation of kingship: he saw himself not just as a king by God's grace, but also as a mediator between God and the whole world. This idea is also expressed in the cupola, which is decorated with stars, and the floor mosaic beneath it, which shows the earth with its plants and animals. "Neuschwanstein throne room" by Joseph Albert As in all the residences of Ludwig II, the king's bedroom is particularly sumptuous. The leitmotif is the legend of Tristan and Isolde, and the two main characters feature not only in the murals, but also in the carvings on the door and the ceramic figures on the tiled stove. The state bed in the neo-gothic style and the seat coverings are in blue silk, with embroidered and appliquéd lions, swans, crowns, lilies and the Bavarian coat of arms. "Neuschwanstein bedroom" by Joseph Albert In 1886, King Ludwig was declared insane. Whether or not he was truly mad is an issue for debate: it suited his court to try and depose him on grounds of mental health. After his diagnosis, he was forced to leave the castle, and, three days later, he died in extremely suspicious circumstances. Historians don't know for sure how 'Mad' King Ludwig died. We do know that he died in 1886, and his body was found floating in Lake Starnberg - alongside the body of his psychiatrist, Dr Gudden. One of the official theories was that Ludwig had killed his psychiatrist (there were marks of struggle on Gudden's body), and Ludwig had then either committed suicide, or drowned accidentally within the lake after the struggle. It's also unlikely he would have drowned, as he had been a strong swimmer from an early age. At the time of Ludwig's death the palace was far from complete. He only slept 11 nights in the castle. Partially because of the vast debts incurred, just weeks after King Ludwig's death, his family opened the castle to tourists. And some pictures I took from the old town of Füssen, which is near to the castle.. Some Pictures and text from Wikipedia and Google and also from www.neuschwanstein.de
Was Great day again, but now I have to cure my flu I've got from not wearing enough clothes! Bye! My first weekend in Germany and I went hiking totally alone! I had been lost if I had not met my guardian angel. Haha, actually he was an older man, whom I asked help at the train station before I went to Tegernsee. While waiting the train, I heard some announcement from the speekers I didn't understand, so I asked the nearest person to translate. He said that I have to change the train at the station named "Rchtshsjsd*lvnsv**zccr." Actually the name was something else, but this is what i heard and remember :D The words in their language are very long and difficult to understand and pronounce. For me at least. Luckily he understood right away that I will be lost. So he said that he is going to the same place and have to change the train also in the same station and that I can follow him. So we started to talk in the train and he couln't believe that I am going hiking alone and with NO MAP. I didn't even know where I was going exactly. I said I have no equipment, only water and food, but I am not any beginner also and I can walk long distances with no problems. So he wrote down some routes and mountines I could go to (also few other places I can visit some other day). When we finally arrived to destination, he helped me to buy the map. I used my last cash for the map. But I needed cash, because my VISA-card don't work here. He gave me 40 euros and his IBAN number and said that I will need cash, if I want to buy food or water or something else and he trust me and know that I will send the money back later. He even said that he have no doubt. I couldn't believe how helpful and friendly some can be. Luckily I had my Nordea codes with me and I made the money transfer immediately. He showed me the start and the direction and we said goodbye to each other and I thanked him for all this help and time and then we both went our ways. Thanks to him I had such a great day, everything went so well and the route was amazing! Thank you again! Taking pictures already in the train Going higher and higher I was hiking alone, so I had to take all the picture myself :D Beer-brake Almost there Jee, finally the top of the mountain Tegernsee town Waiting for the train back to Munich 5h of walking up and down, taking photos and walking town to town around the lake. Plus the hours I spent resting and enjoying the view Good night!
Yep, I have to take cash out of the ATM to buy food from the supermarket. Even Lidl doesn't accept my Nordea VISA card. Luckily SOME stores do accept VISA cards, but I think these stores are only in the city centrum, where the tourists usually are. So today I finally got my kitchenware and I can cook my own meals again. Thats good, because at my school, there is no free lunch like in Finland. Here's only a little coffee shop, where you can buy drinks, chocolate, some breads and that's almost it. Students take their own food with them or they go out for a lunch. So it's cheaper to take my own food with me. I went to the supermarket today, where they didn't accept my visa, so I had to find the nearest ATM to take cash out, but I was lost and I walked 2 hours...maybe 5-7 km all together when I finally find the store again. I love Germany for their super great and wide organic food assortment and not only in biormarkets or bio-shops, but in regular supermarkets too! This is what I got for about 17.60 eur : zucchini 1 kg 1,99 eur cucumber 0,89 eur a piece free-range eggs 1,39 eur/10 eggs black pepper 0,69 eur baby spinach 125g 0,99 eur avocado 0,99 eur a piece onions 1,5kg 0,55 eur ORGANIC minced meat 400g 3,19 eur ORGANIC tomatoes 500g 1,49 eur ORGANIC mushrooms 250g 1,59 eur ORGANIC bananas 1,2 kg 1.76 eur ORGANIC goat's yoghurt 400g 2.09 eur PS. I can do 4 different meals with a 400g of minced meat. Me, Before I was lost for 2 hours :)
Yesterday we arrived to Munich. I was expecting a nice warm spring here, but it was quite cold, rainy and windy. As it was Sunday, we discovered that ALL the shops and malls are closed all day long on Sundays and we had no food with us and I was starving as usual :) But we found some restaurants and fast-food places to buy some food. The place we live is a guesthouse. I have a little room with my own bathroom. My "kitchen" and wardrobe are in the same closet :D We also don't have anything to cook with, we don't even have a fork to eat with or a glass to drink from.
You'll always find dark chocolate and some herbal tea at my place. I have a nice new Tv here, but unfortunately in Germany they usually don't have subtitles, they have recorded their own traslation on top of the original voices..so i don't understand anything. But I don't watch Tv anyway, so it's not going to be a problem for me. Today was our first opening schoolday. We met our classmates and some teachers and ofcourse our headmaster. They all were friendly and very helpful. We had also two very nice German girls showing the school and the city centrum and helping us to buy a pre-paid card and a transportation card, so now we have everything basic we need. At some point they had to go back to school, but we could go home. It took so much time to buy the pre-paid card, because here you have to do a contract for a pre-paid card.....why? I don't know. So we had no time to visit any supermarket, where we could buy some normal food. Luckily we found Lidl on our way home. But we still want to find something like K-Citymarket or S-market kind of stores. Food is cheaper here, much cheaper than in Finland, that's really good! I also found my heaven: ORGANIC SUPERMARKET....and even the organic food is cheaper here compared to Finland or Estonia! ...but still not cheap at all for a student...
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