Day 86: ...And Cold Beers

Date: Sunday 22^nd June
Staying: Camping Thalkirchen – Munich, Germany
Distance Travelled: 0 Miles
Song of the day: Born Slippy – Underworld

To coin a phrase from the aforementioned song:

‘LAGER, LAGER, LAGER, LAGER ...’

Munich is truly famous for 2 things, Sausages and Beer. Now, Laurie and I have never been to Beerfest, and let’s be honest, aren’t likely to get there now. So, it seemed necessary that we indulge in another truly German experience of the Beer Hall.

Now being the pious people we are (OK, fair enough, I can’t back that up, but it sounded good at the time), we decided to see the main cathedral of Munich before the beer hall, so after service finished, we had a brief look in a very nice, modern church and then got down to business.

We visited the world famous Hofbrauhaus. This is basically a massive hall, full of wooden benches, with a band playing traditional Bavarian music in traditional Bavarian costume. You take a seat, and someone will come over for your order. I obviously had to get the litre mug, it seemed only right, and Laurie had a ‘small’ 0.5 litre, cause she isn’t a big beer drinker (of course, the small does dwarf a pint anyway). It is a fantastic place. They have girls walking round as pretzel sellers, dressed in traditional costume; they serve massive plates of sausage that the beer helps wash down. If they showed sport, I would have been in heaven and may never have left.

As it was, there was an F1 race on, so we headed back to the camp site and watched the race, then off to the river Isar, to join all the locals in trying to cool down.