La Précieuse Ridicule

... so a nice occasion to post some more photos!

These were taken on Friday, the first of August. Just after classes our teacher, Berthold, took us on a long walk along the river Isar to the south of the city - out of the city, actually. Surely, there was a visit to a Biergarten on that occasion! Even to two of them. One is famous for its live jazz music (unprecedented for a Biergarten!), the other, as we were told, hold for several years (for a decade, if I am not mistaken) the title of the best one in and around Munich. So - there was a little fall of rain, but during most time the sun was shining brightly, the river was radiating its rays, the wild rocky woods with beeches reminded me of my beloved Carpathians. And the beer was just as bitter and fresh as it should, and the cabbage and sausages and pretzle so delicious...

All photos can be clicked for larger size.

( Many photos, some text )

Don't you dare thinking that there was but beer on this tour! We did see a very important historical building. Here is the very cottage which Ludwig I presented to his mistress Lola Montez for their secret meetings. A politically important cottage, then!

The trip to Salzburg took place on my seventh day - or my first Saturday - in Munich. We took advantage of those "Bayern-tickets": you pay only 29 euro and five people at the same time can travel during 24 hours all around Bayern and Western Austria. I went with Tanya from St. Petersburg, a very nice girl - and Daria from Moscow, so the expenses of each were only 10 euro - absolutely amazing, for the trip to Munich airport costs the same!

We took city maps at Hauptbahnhof and went down to the city centre. In ten minutes we found that we've already left half of the map behind us:) - Salzburg is really very small. It was raining, but in less than an hour that was over.

Our first glimpse of Salzburg

( MANY photos )

I don't have much time or, more important, wish to write here - so I shall probably only tell a bit about places I've already visited.
So far... Biergärten in Englischer Garten and Hirschgarten (or had I already written about the latter?), Hofbräuhaus, Alte Pinakothek, - and "Mamma Mia" at the oldest Munich cinema. Also a Hungarian restaurant (they offered decent business-lunch with HUngarian dry wine) - and fancy, everybody there was speaking Hungarian! I understood so many words... for example, "meghalt" - I hope you know what it means?)) (it's from "Unstillbare Gier" - that's what finally occured to the girl in 1617). I hoped much that they were not using this word about their clientele;) I thanked them in Hungarian, and so on - and they were rather amazed.

I liked Alte Pinakothek pretty much. Especially those wonderful Flamish landscapes and French pastels. And - twice especially, if one can say that - portraits of noble people (or probably mere Bürger) of old.

Unfortunately I could found but one of these picture in the net. I assure you, there were much more Markgrafen and so on and so forth. Not all of them were actually to my liking, but those who were - so noble, so handsome, so clever, so self-assured... Just to imagine that all these people once lived and belonged to their age... I guess you will understand me.

And for you I have this painting. Some say that this can be Velázquez' self-portrait. If this man were fair-haired... then I could name him Ysidro:)
Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velázquez
Young Spanish Gentleman


As for "Mamma Mia" - very nice, advise you all! All this singing and constant dancing and breathtaking landscapes...

As for today, I am visiting Glyptothek (a collection of Greek and Roman sculptures) - and a theatre in Gärtnerplatz, they are giving Verdi's "Die Räuber" (don't know the Italian title, but this is after a play by Schiller). Unfortunately there were no tickets left for "Die Meisternsingern von Nürnberg"! *weeps* - I wanted to visit this performance especially... Anyway, anything goes.