Day3: 14/04/06 Munich
Schloss Nymphenburg
Pretty flowers...
Bee!This was another day of walking: we went to Schloss Nymphenburg (Nymph's Castle?!), which is a palace outside central Munich reknowned for its landscape garden. For more information about the palace, search "Schloss Nymphenburg" on Google or Wikipedia (I have forgotten the background info :) )
Our walk started from the U-Bahn station we alighted, which was at least a mile away from the palace. Before that we attempted to take a tram directly there but to no avail.
We did not intend to enter the palace itself; as I, at that point of time, thought that we would be going into the much bigger and more impressive Schloss Schonbrunn in Vienna. We bought combined tickets for the 4 smaller garden palaces, and we set off to walk the gardens.
The garden was really huge; we took one whole morning to finish it. However, sadly, there was still not a single leaf on the trees, and there was no water in the fountains. We could only use our imagination to visualise the beauty of it when it is summer. The only thing I used to console ourselves were the buds on the branches: Spring is near! But not here yet. We will see spring somewhere else.
The most interesting find in the garden palaces was that some lodges were richly decorated with Chinese and Japanese art, with wall paintings and tiles depicting scenes (though inaccurate) in the Far East in (inaccurate) Qing dynasty costume. One of the rooms was mainly warm yellow, with paintings of flower branches and cranes and felt really Far East. We were quite surprised by that at that time, only to learn much later (somewhere else) that these styles were popular during the 17th century among the aristocrats as they were 'exotic'.
After that it was Tk's most favoured destination: the Munich Botanical Gardens. Although it was not spring yet, the gardens were already in blooming. Flowers of all kind decorated the grass patches; on one simple piece of grass there can be 4 to 5 kinds of different colours. Numerous species of Alpine flowers filled a man-made hill; tulips, among others, were attracting camera shots. There were a lot of bees around, and after I took a very nice photo of a bee approaching a flower, Tk tried very hard to get one and he now has numerous of bees in his photo collection. It was here where Tk started his rose quest all over Europe: he was determined to find a rose plant with roses on it after he saw that the rose garden there had rose plants with branches only.
We went back early that day (by tram this time) as we wanted to confirm train timings at Hauptbahnhof for the next day's daytrip to Fussen. Our dinner was settled at the cheap Italian restaurant Pasta Basta round the corner (as record, I describe the location: just at the exit (w/o elevator) of Frauenhoferstrasse U-Bahn stn.). It was really cheap and good by German standards: I remembered not paying >7 Euros for a pasta and a beer. And, most importantly, this was the stage for the first Yj's outstanding story: He asked the waiter to translate the whole menu to English for him!! Tk and me were like, *_*: ... And there would be more Yj's outstanding stories to come....
Our walk started from the U-Bahn station we alighted, which was at least a mile away from the palace. Before that we attempted to take a tram directly there but to no avail.
We did not intend to enter the palace itself; as I, at that point of time, thought that we would be going into the much bigger and more impressive Schloss Schonbrunn in Vienna. We bought combined tickets for the 4 smaller garden palaces, and we set off to walk the gardens.
The garden was really huge; we took one whole morning to finish it. However, sadly, there was still not a single leaf on the trees, and there was no water in the fountains. We could only use our imagination to visualise the beauty of it when it is summer. The only thing I used to console ourselves were the buds on the branches: Spring is near! But not here yet. We will see spring somewhere else.
The most interesting find in the garden palaces was that some lodges were richly decorated with Chinese and Japanese art, with wall paintings and tiles depicting scenes (though inaccurate) in the Far East in (inaccurate) Qing dynasty costume. One of the rooms was mainly warm yellow, with paintings of flower branches and cranes and felt really Far East. We were quite surprised by that at that time, only to learn much later (somewhere else) that these styles were popular during the 17th century among the aristocrats as they were 'exotic'.
After that it was Tk's most favoured destination: the Munich Botanical Gardens. Although it was not spring yet, the gardens were already in blooming. Flowers of all kind decorated the grass patches; on one simple piece of grass there can be 4 to 5 kinds of different colours. Numerous species of Alpine flowers filled a man-made hill; tulips, among others, were attracting camera shots. There were a lot of bees around, and after I took a very nice photo of a bee approaching a flower, Tk tried very hard to get one and he now has numerous of bees in his photo collection. It was here where Tk started his rose quest all over Europe: he was determined to find a rose plant with roses on it after he saw that the rose garden there had rose plants with branches only.
We went back early that day (by tram this time) as we wanted to confirm train timings at Hauptbahnhof for the next day's daytrip to Fussen. Our dinner was settled at the cheap Italian restaurant Pasta Basta round the corner (as record, I describe the location: just at the exit (w/o elevator) of Frauenhoferstrasse U-Bahn stn.). It was really cheap and good by German standards: I remembered not paying >7 Euros for a pasta and a beer. And, most importantly, this was the stage for the first Yj's outstanding story: He asked the waiter to translate the whole menu to English for him!! Tk and me were like, *_*: ... And there would be more Yj's outstanding stories to come....
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