Windows on the World - M is for Munchen or Munich

This month I am participating in the A-Z Blogging Challenge where I will endeavour to post on this blog each day. I will be sharing photos of Windows that I have photographed on my travels and highlighting from A-Z the places where I found these Windows on the World.

I didn't realise that I had been to Munich three times (in 1994, 2006 and 2013)  until I consulted my diary to find dates to check in my photo folders. As I wasn't concentrating on windows and didn't have a digital camera in 1994 I have no window photos from that trip but I made up for that in 2013 when these pictures were taken.

Many of my photos have odd angles as they were taken in narrow streets or from a hopon-hopoff bus.

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Window Dressing

Pets Paradise

At the Lowenbrau

Better than sightseeing

Around ten years ago my niece moved overseas to live; since that time I have only seen her on half a dozen occasions. Yesterday, in Munich, my daughter and I caught up with my niece who is only six weeks older than my daughter.

I so enjoyed sitting down with the girls and chatting for four hours. When we felt we had worn out our welcome at one restaurant we moved onto another Being able to catch up with a family member was so much more rewarding than another day of sightseeing; I am so pleased that my niece travelled into Munich to meet up with us.

In Munich with my daughter (left) and my niece (right)

The Pictures tell the story

Some of the 300 snapshots I captured today show what we saw and experienced in Munich today

The natives took advantage of the sun at the beach in The English Garden

Some of them tried surfing in the river

The fence of treble clefs guarded the Residenz

A trio of doors

Bicycles rule

Lego at the SBahn

Marching men

We acquainted ourselves with a department store

Crazy columns

Our bus got too close for comfort

German Guard Dog

Leonine Guard

Santa's solar panel

Street art

Classic German  footware

A lost instrument

Thirst quenchers

Sausages and sauerkraut complete the German experience

Smooth transfer

I didn't know what to expect with our flight with Air Niki from Vienna to Munich this evening and was pleasantly surprised.

The plane was clean and new, the staff were young and friendly and  were decked out in pink polo shirts and jeans. The plane was in time leaving and during the flight we were served a drink and a sandwich.

On arrival we took an SBahn train from the airport to the city. Our trip was rather painless.

While our digs at the Holiday Inn aren't quite as ritzy as the Intercontinental they are clean, comfortable and convenient to the city and SBahn.

Bavarian Band