Another weekend in Germany

Last week Friday I came home and Andre had received a lens he had rented for the weekend. A wide angle lens.

He still had some work to do before we could leave to go to Germany and so did I.

I had to work my way through a box of chocolates. That's hard work.

We arrived at mom and Jürgen's Friday evening. Saturday morning after breakfast we took the train to Munich. I had to be ready for a weekend of looking into this new lens. It makes you feel like a celebrity when you open the car door and someone takes your picture!

But soon it's not funny anymore.

We walked to the Englischer Garten where there was a Christmas market at the Chinesische Turm.

The plan was to try and keep Andre away from the shops. It was quite cold so we had sausage and then glühwein to warm us up.

The Englischer Garten is a very big park in the centre of Munich. It is bigger than New York's Central Park!

Here are some winter pictures of the park when I was there in December 2004. It looks different covered in snow.

We found some guys surfing in the garden! They've created this standing wave in the river and take turns to surf. It looks weird seeing guys walking down the street in the city in wetsuits with a surfboard under their arm! In the freezing winter!

They're not allowed to surf here...

Another Christmas market in Munich.

And the photographer is still doing his thing!

The Christmas market in front of the Rathaus in Munich was very busy. We just passed it quickly. We will go there again before Christmas and when it's a bit later in the day to see the Christmas lights.

We went for a beer at the Augustiner Brauhaus which is a warm and lively beer house. Well the guys had beer and us girls had hot chocolate.

Oberpolinger, a big BIG department store in Munich, had such a pretty light display outside. The colours kept changing.

I made Andre get a picture of the pink lights for me too!

The city was busy. I love this part of Munich. I like the atmosphere and I think the shops are way better than what we have here in Zurich.

We did end up going into one shop just before closing time. A camera shop of course for the photographers in the family. Here Andre is trying out another lens on me.

We had a great weekend! Thanks Ma and Jürgen! See you soon for Christmas!