A visit from Gnoudesavanes

Native European Gnoudesavanes was happy to hear that I'd finally taken the great leap to move to Euroland, and he was even happier to hear that I wasn't moving to Paris. Mostly because as a Lyon native, he hates Paris. *cough* Anyway, armed with a list of things he wanted to see, he came to visit me this weekend. High on the list and with numerous repeats was *boire beaucoup de biere allemand* as well as *visiter le Hofbrauhaus* so the two were duly combined.

The Menu for The Hofbrauhaus am Platzl (Lowenbrau)

Enjoying his 1L stein with my Weissbier in the foreground.

We followed up lunch by walking around Platzl and then admired all the Porsches on Maximilianstr. 

We had a lot of fun in a specialist salt and spice shop down the street from the Hofbrauhaus. I'm sure we weren't supposed to taste the stuff but oh well! They sold Murray River Salt!!!

And on the topic of Australia....DAYLESFORD ORGANIC?!?!

It was a nice day so we walked all the way back to Marienplatz, got some Apfelstrudel from Wimmer and then later had some more Weissbier near the Staatsoper for afternoon tea. This time we had Franziskaner which I didn't photograph but it was pretty good. 


Gnoudesavanes made a number of observations during our trip around the city. Firstly, the city doesn't look the way he anticipated (Gothic), and that all the houses seems to look the same with the yellow, grey, pink colour scheme. Secondly, everywhere we walked (including my area of Maxvorstadt) seemed to be quite affluent and he asked where in Munich poor people lived. My reply, "They don't. I AM a poor citizen of Munich." And finally, he admires a city where it's perfectly acceptable to drink beer at breakfast, lunch, and in public at all hours of the day without condemnation. He's decided that would be worth moving here for.