Ingrid and Malcolm's Life in Luxembourg: Louise and Ian in Munich

Sisters

Finally after months of counting down, my sister Louise and her husband arrived from Perth. We have not seen them since we left Australia 21 months ago. We were set for three hectic weeks and realised that it was not time to start the much needed diet! We had three days in Munich before we were to head to Paris.

The first day we went for a drive which in itself felt weird as they kept thinking the large trucks on the roads were going to hit us as they were on the "wrong side" of the road. We went to Schloss Nymphenburg and walked around the gardens as well as going into the Hunting Lodge, Bath House and then the carriage house to look at Ludwig II's spectacular carriages. It was then time to give them a real taste of Bavarian culture and we took them to Hirschgarten which is the largest beer garden in Bavaria.

The second day was a Sunday when it would be quieter in Munich so we went in and did a walking tour of the city, followed by lunch in a large Augustiner beer garden then we went for a "Third Reich walking tour" where Deb joined us.

The third day we set out for BMW Welt and the Olympic Tower. We were booked in for a factory tour and we were going to go to the museum but it was closed on Mondays. So we walked around BMW Welt, went up the Olympic Tower (147 metres high) and then the factory tour. The tour around the factory was amazing we were mesmerized by the robots that they have there and could have stood watching them for hours. Their precision was amazing.