My brother and his family -- Bill & Bonnie and Sarah, 14, Claire, 11, and Simon, 6 -- were near the end of their yearlong sabbatical in Munich. They tell all about their year in Europe at their Gruen-Tolman Sabbatical web site. 

  Rick & I arrived in Munich in the afternoon, after about six hours of flight delays because of thunderstorms near Washington, D.C. Our luggage was lost, then found, and would be delivered the next morning. This saved us the trouble and expense of getting a taxi van to take our boxed bikes to Bill & Bonnie's apartment. We took the subway from the airport. 

  Bill pointed out the nearby Friedensengel (Peace Angel) to help us get oriented. We walked through a corner of the Englischer Garten into the Altstadt (Old Town), stopping to watch surfers on the Eisbach, a tributary of the Isar River, where the flow creates a continuous wave. 

Bill and Lynne in Marienplatz.

This tiny church, Asamkirche, is very ornate. Another Asamkirche link.

Rick & Lynne at Nurnberger Bratwurst Glockl, a biergarten next to the Frauenkirche cathedral.

Hofgarten

Friedensengel

At Odeonsplatz, Lynne rubs the lion's nose for good luck.

Neues Rathaus (New Town Hall) Marienplatz

  On the way home we walked through crowds of people encamped on the sidewalks outside the gates at Konigsplatz to hear an open-air concert by up-and-coming Russian soprano Anna Netrebko. It was intermission so we didn't hear any of the performance.