European Vacation/Bauma

Dave was asked to go to a huge construction/mining show held every three years in Munich called Bauma. We decided to take a few days before and go exploring as neither of us had been to Europe before. We arrived at 10:00 am and met Wen from Chicago getting off the plane. He helped us exchange our dollars for Euros and buy tickets for the train.  We took the S8 to Central Station and the U2 to Josephplatz. We met Rachel and she walked us to our apartment and gave us the key. After a nap we took the train back to Central Station and walked through the mall. We found a buffet on the top floor and ate some soup, salad and a potato quiche dish.  We were asleep by 9:00.

View out our window. You can see the little grocery store bottom right and the train station was about two blocks from the store. Very convenient location.

Little kitchen with the mini-fridge. We had apples, toast and cheese for breakfast.

Thursday we took the train to Marienplatz and saw Peterskirche. We waited in the central plaza to watch the clock tower and climbed a tower in the church to see a nice view of the city (through the fog).

                                         Clock tower in Marienplatz

                                    Climbing the tower

                         View of Munich