Where's Bertie? He's feeling a bit cheeky sitting right in front of Schloss Nymphenburg, in a position that's at the opposite end of the discretion scale from where we were parked earlier in the week at the Englischer Garten. (Exact location: 48.16016, 11.50563)
Weather: Not a cloud to be seen all day. Temperature up to the high twenties this afternoon.
One of the things I like so much about Germany is that anywhere that there's a body of water there will likely be a path running alongside it. Last night we were parked within a minute's walk of the River Amper, so this morning we took a bit of exercise southwards, along its west bank. It was a shame it lacked bridges, so we couldn't return along the opposite side.
All very pleasant, and set off nicely by that sky.
It was gone noon by the time we'd returned to Bertie, had elevenses and made our way (via a petrol station - diesel 125.9c/litre) to Schloss Nymphenburg on the west side of Munich. I knew from the map that the gardens here are vast (180ha, I've since been informed), but we had no idea, until we arrived, quite what a huge palace complex it is.
The intention this afternoon was just to take a walk around the gardens (good, but not a patch on Schloss Schwetzinger which we visited last year, but then these gardens are free), but once here I felt inclined to take a look inside as well (€6 a head just for the main palace; if I'd read our guidebook first, I probably would have gone for the ticket covering the museum and various buildings dotted around the gardens too).
It's not possible to fit the whole symmetrical complex of buildings into one snap. This is just a bit of it.
The main building, built as a summer palance, dating from the mid-1600s. King Ludwig II was born here and later died at the Starnberger See, where we were last week. We visited his most famous residence, Neuschwanstein in 2014.
Looking from the top of the exterior entrance steps to the palace's great hall, down the length of the 'canal' that runs through the grounds.
Looking from the far end of the main water feature, back the 0.85-mile back to the palace.
Just a small snapshot of the grandeur of the great hall
The publicly accessible bits of building only amount to 20 rooms on the first floor, but it was enough to give a taster, without danger of getting 'schlossed-out'. We would, perhaps, have got more from our visit if we had opted for the audioguide, but each room had a multi-lingual information panel, so we didn't go uninformed.
All in all, a good day of touristing today!
(Today's aside: Our Austrian neighbour from last night's Stellplatz popped by before he left this morning. Chatting ensued, during which he asked from where in GB we came. Our nearest town is a small place and even within England it's common for people not to know it, so when abroad we generally just go for 'north of Birmingham' - close enough in the grand scheme of things. Today we were taken aback by our neighbour saying that he used to be a primary school teacher and he once made a visit to a school in a town in England. Yep, that school was in our little town. Small world.)
Weather: Not a cloud to be seen all day. Temperature up to the high twenties this afternoon.
One of the things I like so much about Germany is that anywhere that there's a body of water there will likely be a path running alongside it. Last night we were parked within a minute's walk of the River Amper, so this morning we took a bit of exercise southwards, along its west bank. It was a shame it lacked bridges, so we couldn't return along the opposite side.
It was gone noon by the time we'd returned to Bertie, had elevenses and made our way (via a petrol station - diesel 125.9c/litre) to Schloss Nymphenburg on the west side of Munich. I knew from the map that the gardens here are vast (180ha, I've since been informed), but we had no idea, until we arrived, quite what a huge palace complex it is.
The intention this afternoon was just to take a walk around the gardens (good, but not a patch on Schloss Schwetzinger which we visited last year, but then these gardens are free), but once here I felt inclined to take a look inside as well (€6 a head just for the main palace; if I'd read our guidebook first, I probably would have gone for the ticket covering the museum and various buildings dotted around the gardens too).
The publicly accessible bits of building only amount to 20 rooms on the first floor, but it was enough to give a taster, without danger of getting 'schlossed-out'. We would, perhaps, have got more from our visit if we had opted for the audioguide, but each room had a multi-lingual information panel, so we didn't go uninformed.
All in all, a good day of touristing today!
(Today's aside: Our Austrian neighbour from last night's Stellplatz popped by before he left this morning. Chatting ensued, during which he asked from where in GB we came. Our nearest town is a small place and even within England it's common for people not to know it, so when abroad we generally just go for 'north of Birmingham' - close enough in the grand scheme of things. Today we were taken aback by our neighbour saying that he used to be a primary school teacher and he once made a visit to a school in a town in England. Yep, that school was in our little town. Small world.)
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