🧵6/x A Pretzel Interlude. Granted it had been decades since I’d been to Munich and the bulk of my time there consisted of 5 nights in the Wiesn Lowenbrau tent, but I thought the pretzel thing was exaggerated. Well I was wrong about that, as we learned at the main train station! Pretzels galore! - ThreadSky

hawksbill.bsky.social • 17 days ago

🧵6/x A Pretzel Interlude. Granted it had been decades since I’d been to Munich and the bulk of my time there consisted of 5 nights in the Wiesn Lowenbrau tent, but I thought the pretzel thing was exaggerated. Well I was wrong about that, as we learned at the main train station! Pretzels galore!

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hawksbill.bsky.social•16 days ago

🧵7/x After a break to Prague, it was back to Munich city center. On our way to Marienplatz we stopped for lunch where I had an Erdinger Helles. This Bayern brewery, better known for Weissbier, was founded in 1886 and renamed postwar. No taps at this place so bottle beer for a change!

hawksbill.bsky.social•15 days ago

🧵8/x We chose nearby Giorgia trattoria for dinner…Spaten on tap so how could I refuse. Lovely Al fresco setting and expert tiramisu for dessert. This beer tourism thing was hitting a groove!

hawksbill.bsky.social•14 days ago

🧵9/x Separate agenda from my wife’s this day. I watched the Glockenspiel (“Glockenspiel, Glockenspiel, I can’t feel my Glockenspiel!) with another Ofest beer, Hacker-Pschorr Dunkel. A 2-brewery merger in 1973, and a history going back to 1417, they still sell beer in flip-top bottles!

hawksbill.bsky.social•12 days ago

🧵10/x After the Glockenspiel I walked to the hunting and fishing museum nearby. Full of German woodsman lore! Also look at the nice anthropomorphized animal charrettes! My wife had gone her own way for the day and I was left to enjoy this without her. 😹

hawksbill.bsky.social•11 days ago

🧵11/x Munich solo tour day continued, venturing to Pinakothek Der Moderne. Took in some Bauhaus design and the “Camping in the GDR” exhibit. Nice walk thru the city to get there including some old city wall gates. Peckish at the end, time for lunch!

hawksbill.bsky.social•10 days ago

🧵12/end Lunch at Marienplatz/Ratskeller A Franzikaner Dunkel, brewery dating to 1397, currently merged with Spaten and part of AB InBev. A nice gulasch soup with that and a white table cloth. Afterwards back to the hotel for our last night in Munich and morning train to Salzburg…March thread!

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