Munich–January 23, 2017
So, today, as most of the museums were closed, I decided to go out to the end of the subway line (or at least as far as I could go on the card I had bought). I was headed to Grünwald, and had to take the tram to Max-Weber-Platz, but I got off early at the Maxmonument (monument to King Maximilian II) stop instead. Here are some pictures up to that point. Since some of the pictures were taken through the tram window, they may not be tremendously clear.
Here are pictures at the monument.
I decided to walk to the Max-Weber-Platz, which involved going over the Isar River via the Maximilian Bridge:
At the other side of the bridge is the Maximilianeum, a building housing a foundation for gifted students:
Once I got to the tram transfer stop, I got lucky; if I hadn’t tunred my head to the left, I would have missed this artwork outside a real estate office, of all places:
So, I got to Grünwald, and walked around for a while, taking pictures somewhat at random. The first picture is from the tram on the trip there. One interesting sight was a blue and white striped pole which, if I read my German correctly, was set up by the Boys’ Club of Grünwald:
By that time I had gotten to the high point of the city and passed the church and the hotel near the castle, which has these plaques on it:
I was not able to get to a place where I could get any good pictures of the castle, so here's all I got:
From there, I took a side path for bicyclists and walkers that had a sign saying that an S-Bahn stop was only 2.5 kilometers away. I got this picture along the way:
Unfortunately, that was the only sign, and after a half hour of walking, I had no idea what was going on. Luckily, I met a couple of women who were walking their dogs, and they told me that the station I was looking for was on the other side of the river, so I had missed a turn to the left to get to the bridge. They had finished their walk, so they walked back with me to their place, then pointed me in the direction of the tram station, which was only about five minutes away. And that was, to a large extent, the day.
Food
Dinner consisted of currywurst, fries, and a salad at Henry’s Deli (site in German). Very good meal; the picture I took with my camera did not turn out well.
Dessert was a chocolate coconut bar from Münchner Zuckerl (site also in German), a Linzer tart, and yogurt from a convenience store at the train station.
Signage
Here is a rhyming slogan on the side of a bus. It translates loosely to: “Going to Parsdorf means saving money,” which does not rhyme at all.
Here is a clever linking of the first letters of the Schwarzreiter Restaurant.
This ghastly sign is for a children’s dental practice.
I really liked the shape of the letter K in this sign.
A clever use of the bubble motif for this soft drink advert.
This sign is in front of some sort of children’s center.
Finally, these signs that show a nice use of the old fraktur style of German lettering. The first one reads “Solnhofener Klosterbrot,” and the other one is for a printing company: “Isar-druck Grünwald.” On the first one, you have to look very closely to see the difference between the lower case “f” in the first word and the lower case “s” in the second.