Munich Rathaus with famous Glockenspiel

Monday

Late morning arrival, then meeting friends at the train station, ending with dinner at the famous Hofbrauhaus München.

From the hotel

HB (Hofbrau Haus)

Friends Jeff and Maureen

Tuesday

A visit to the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial

Main Entrance

Greeting: “Work will make you free”

Prisoner Uniform

Roll Call

The Barracks

Sleeping Accomodations

Crematory

Memorial Sculpture

Wednesday

A day trip to Salzburg, Austria, on the train

City Hall

Mirabelli Palace

The start of “Do, Re, Mi,” remember?

The “tunnel” also in “Do, Re, Mi”

The River Sal

Mozart Birthplace

1823 Heinrich Heine Quote Above:
“Wherever they burn books they will also,
in the end, burn human beings.”

The Cathedral

Cemetery where the family hid

at the end of Sound of Music

The Schloss and the Funicular

From the Schloss

Panorama

The Funicular

Rezidenplatz

Thursday

A more relaxed day, staying in town. Took the Munich Hop-on, Hop-off bus tours and very much enjoyed seeing parts of the city previously unseen.

Heading for the bus

Karolinenplatz Obelisk

Museums (Note the different column styles)

Odeonsplatz

Reiterstandbild König Ludwig I

Konigsplatz

Munich Rathaus

Nymphenburg Palace

Famous O2 Building

Olympiapark Munich

BMW World HQ and Museum

(Four Cylinders)

The famous “Walking Man “ statue

Siegestor (Victory Gate)

Karlsplatz

“Foodfest Thursday” in the shopping center

near the hotel

Friday

Off to Regensburg by train and

board our ship

Well, there’s already been a wrinkle. Because of low water in the Danube, our ship can’t get upriver to Regensburg. So we will go there anyway, and they’ll bus everyone to the ship in Passau. Then, am Morgan, they’ll bus us back to Regensburg for the city tour.

The old bridge in Regensburg,
from the 12th century.

Marianne, a newfound friend from the Houston airport, lives in Regensburg, picked us up at the train station, and gave us a quick tour, including the old sausage shop, Historische Wurstkurchel in Regensburg which is considered the oldest continuously operating sausage restaurant in the world, with over 850 years of history. Located on the Danube near the Stone Bridge, it has served charcoal-grilled sausages to locals and visitors since the 12th century.