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Yes my friends this post is about the one and only Munich or as we German speakers like to say München.

For my internship I am supposed to work 5 days a week and most people get the weekends off so they know that every Friday they finish work and don’t have to be back in the office till Monday, well my internship is a bit different and my days off are generally random and since I took off an extra day 2 weeks in a row my days off are seldom.  BUT last Friday I didn’t have to work and Thurs I finished around1, so on Tuesday I decided I would go visit the wonderful Bavarian city of München and visit my friend Joe who is doing an internship there.  I basically fell in love with the town!

When I first got there Joe met me at the Hauptbahnhof (for you English speakers out there that would be the main train station).  The first thing I noticed was that the city is HUGE!  It’s only a bit smaller than Berlin so I shouldn’t have been so surprised, but after living in the tiny city of Heidelberg for 5 weeks it was a bit shocking.  We went to the main part of town Marienplatz.  Here is where you can see the Alt Rathaus and more centrally the Neu Rathaus (old and new town halls).  The Neu Rathaus has a Glockenspiel (like in Frankenmuth!) and it goes off 3 times a day.  But Joe took me to a few churches instead of waiting to see the clock ring it’s bells and doing it’s show.  The first church we saw was Frauenkirche and this is where Pope Benedict was the Cardinal in München!  It had a plaque for him and also one in honor of PJPII  and it was of course beautiful!  We were about to climb the tour but we literally JUST missed it because the lady let 2 people go and then as we turned to go she said it was closed for the night (lamsies).  So we continued on our walk through the city and we walked to Odienplatz which is where the old kings used to reside and there is an amazingly beautiful church there! seriously, breathtaking!  But they were praying the rosenkreisbeten (rosary) so we felt rude looking through it and left.  We basically just wandered around for an hour and he pointed out different things to me and then we headed to dinner.  He took me to the Hofbräuhaus, home of the

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