We were treated to a feast this morning for breakfast by all four chefs in the kitchen! Andrea and I then headed off to the centre to explore the town. We’ve come to realize that Germans take their holidays and Sundays very seriously since everything is usually closed on such occasions. Mainly only some cafes and restaurants were open along the major streets. As we entered the city centre we across a cultural dance festival of some sort. We watched dance routines from Africa and mainly Eastern Europe. It was so interesting to watch such vast different styles of dance! Entirely different from what I used to do, expect some of the Eastern European moves like the doting step are rather similar to ballet character moves I remember learning!
We walked up the top of St. Peter’s Church for a rewarding view of Munich! Andrea counted every single step and in total there was 354 steps. This stair case would one hundred percent not be legal back at home though! First of all it was a very narrow passage and allowed for only one way of traffic, and there were way too many people for it to be safe in an emergency. Thankfully that didn’t have to be any of our worries! At the top we could see out into the city and we also got a glimpse of the cultural dance festival too!
Once we descended down we made our way into the through the city taking time to look at the opera house and art gallery. The architecture of these building was absolutely stunning! We walked what seemed to be police havoc! From hat I was able to count there was about14 police cars and vans and officers standing around the city, in particularly by the parliament building. Being curious I asked one of the officers and it turns out that they were preparing and there for precaution for the G7 conference that was being held in Munich on Monday. We made our way back to the English Gardens from yesterday and walked by people surfing in a current in the park river! Who would have thought that Munich would be the place to surf?! We made sure to grab an ice cream, which was rather difficult to find despite it being sunny, summer and in a park, before we sat down to soak up the Suns rays. We later made our way to the train station and back to Erlangen. We then decided that we needed to watch the rest of the movie we weren’t able to finish last night, don’t worry we managed to make it through it this time!