I have so many pictures of our last AWESOME days in München, you English-speakers call it Munich, that I will use the invitation for letter M!
But first, some out of my "older" collection, to give you an idea...
Marienplatz with the "new" Town Hall and the Marienkirche (Munichs symbol) behind
We have strolled down here so often... when this photo was taken, I was off to get my Canadian passport in 2018. LONG before Covid... where has the time gone!? It seems like another era of life! But, all buildings are still standing
The "Eisbachwelle" -the wave in the "icy creek" right in downtown Munich. Surfers LOVE this spot!
"Nackerte" in the English Garden
The Englischer Garten in Munich is a huge park close to downtown, where side-arms of the Isar flow. Since some decades it became almost a tradition to sunbathe here naked. But you may leave your clothes on, as well!
German (!) Gondola on the channel behind Schloss Schönbrunn
last summer, DH and I enjoyed the river Isar, almost within downtown Munich
M for München... 
Now here are pictures of Munich, in our last 3 days:
The Olympia-park of Munich. The men strolled around there in the night when we arrived at thursday
My beloved oldest son Felix lives since exactly 1 year now, since his last birthday - in his long-dream-city Munich, the capital of the German Free State of Bavaria.
Yesterday, it was his birthday again, and to celebrate him, DH, our youngest son Nici and I visited him in his place. And once more (we had done this several times now, and it always is SUCH fun and joy!), he showed us around "his" city! ...while it got 36°C in the shade at his day of honor- and so we stayed inside mostly, and explored Schloss Nymphenburg, that is just 1 km away from his flat.
Birthday-morning, with coffee-to-go and pastry in front of Schloss Nymphenburg. Watching the GIANT carps in the channel...!
The porcellaine-manufacture "Nymphenburger Porzellan" is sharing the history and the place with the castle. We strolled through the sales exhibition of it and where in awe about the (often 300 year old, but contemporary, also) designs and the artistic paintings. If I could afford it, I would collect the not painted series "Rokoko" that indeed is 300 years old (but produced still new). As you can see, the not painted or gilded plate still costs 380 Euro- while, when it is decorated (in unbelievably detailed) floral hand painting and gilded with very exquisite ornaments, 1 plate costs 8470 Euro. And certainly is worth it! ...While I like it more pure. But, I still appreciate the stunning art, immensely!
The awesome chandeliers and -painted ceiling in the large, 2 story ballroom of Schloss Nymphenburg
small selection of salons in the castle, as also in the "Lusthäuser" (Pavilions) located in the huge park, belonging to the castle
one especially outstanding example of the interior of a Pavilion- encrusted with paintings and carvings, decorated with silver leaf
Pans grotto, in the park of Schloss Schönbrunn
Gilded horse-sleighs, regal carriages, and gold-embroidered, jingle-bell-encrusted horse gear in the Royal stud-museum of Schloss Schönbrunn
...totally stunned but exhausted afterwards, in a "Biergarten". Biergärten are common in Bavaria and Munich is famous for having several big ones. It is always a garden, but often a park-like huge restaurant-garden, always al fresco, where you can rest under huge old buckey-trees and have a simple, typical meal (as sausage-salads with Bretzel, grilled pork-knuckles with very crispy skin, half grilled chicken and potato salad, grilled sausage etc) and you get your beer (or here: Radler, a 50/50% mix of beer and lemonade) in a Masskrug. Or a "halbe Mass", which is 1/2 liter. (The true Mass contains 1 liter, and on the 1 and only Oktoberfest, that is located also in Munich, you ONLY get a full Mass!) And: We do NOT call those huge jars "stein"!
...This is a small part of what we have experienced, and a VERY small part of Munich. But my heart was flowing over, and I had to share!
(Oh, I almost forgot: Next letter is either "N" (when you choose the German name München)
or "H", when you choose "Munich"!
)we manifested free tickets for “Acrobatic Swan Lake” (if I’m not mistaken the circus graduates had their performance on the same day).
