{"id":11530,"date":"2018-10-28T09:30:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T14:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traun-photo.com\/dan\/?p=11530"},"modified":"2018-10-31T17:00:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T22:00:51","slug":"munich-germany-day-8-bavaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/traun-photo.com\/dan\/munich-germany-day-8-bavaria\/","title":{"rendered":"GERMANY – Munich, Day 8 #Bavaria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Westpark<\/h1>\n

Westpark\u00a0is a large urban public park in\u00a0Munich,\u00a0Germany. It was designed by landscape architect\u00a0Peter Kluska\u00a0and completed in 1983. It hosted the\u00a0International Garden Expo 83\u00a0that same year. The park covers an area of 178 acres extending 2.6\u00a0km from east to west. The Garmischer Stra\u00dfe divides the park into an eastern and western section.
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I was very impressed by the number of parks in Munich; the amount of green space is amazing.\u00a0 The fact that there are beer gardens is most of that green space – double amazing!\u00a0 The origin of the planning of this trip to Germany centered around this day.\u00a0 Friends of our cousins in Texas (our travel companions on this trip) that live in Germany were married earlier in the year.\u00a0 Today was Fridric and Jessica’s wedding celebration.\u00a0 My wife and I were happy to make their acquaintance and were appreciative we were invited to take part.\u00a0 It was wonderful.\u00a0 The beer from the wooden keg was exquisite.\u00a0 Tapping the keg is a big\u00a0deal as well (see videos below).<\/p>\n

Rose Garden @ Westpark<\/h2>\n

The rose garden consists of\u00a0more than 20,000\u00a0roses\u00a0and 500 different rose species.\u00a0 – wikipedia<\/p>\n

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Wirtshaus am Rosengarten<\/a><\/h2>\n

Had a beer and snack prior to the evenings festivities<\/p>\n

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Japanese Garden<\/h2>\n

Four of the originally 23 national gardens of the exhibit are preserved. The very first authentic\u00a0Chinese garden\u00a0in Europe is a walled garden that might have been constructed for an historic scholar. Around a pond the walkways leads along the four seasons and four parts of a lifetime. The\u00a0Japanese garden\u00a0was a gift from Munich’s sister City\u00a0Sapporo\u00a0and combines elements from the\u00a0Heian period. A Nepali pagoda was carved by 200 master carvers and transported to Munich. A free standing Thai-Sala\u00a0hosts the first consecrated\u00a0Gautama Buddha\u00a0statue in Germany.\u00a0\u00a0– wikipedia<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This garden was beautiful.\u00a0 I was regretting not bringing my DSL to capture it.\u00a0 It was going to be a lengthy day and I didn’t feel like dragging it along.\u00a0 Mistake.\u00a0 Smartphones do a pretty good job capturing scenes, but no comparison to a DSL.<\/p>\n

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The Wedding Celebration<\/h2>\n

I didn’t get a whole lot of shots of the celebration because I was…well celebrating.\u00a0 The bride and groom had all sort of costumes for attendees to wear if they didn’t come dressed up.\u00a0 A very fun evening all the way around.\u00a0 Great people, venue, food and of course the beer.<\/p>\n

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I thought this door nob at the restaurant was interesting.\u00a0 Drucken; means “press\/push;” however it looked a lot like Drunken after a few beers.\u00a0 It was on the way to the bathroom.<\/p>\n

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Here, Fridric Taps the wooden keg of beer<\/h4>\n