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July 7, 2006
Bavaria: The Texas of Germany
Imagine if someone told you that his vacation to the United States involved going to west Texas, attending a rodeo, watching a high school football game, getting a ride in a pickup truck, and then hanging out shooting beer cans off a tree stump with a handgun? On one hand, you'd want to shake the guy's hand for having the "authentic American experience," and on the other hand, you'd fall over in laughter given that all he experienced of the USA was the sort of stereotypes of the country that he's seen on television.
That's what visiting Munich has been like. I've gone to beer halls. I've drunk out of large beer steins:
As you can see from the top photo, I listened to a German oom-pah band play music while dressed in lederhosen. Heck, I even tried on some traditional German clothing at a local store and checked out the local Bavarian palace:
It's everything you think you'd find in Germany. In short, I've had a great time here, but I'm glad that I saw some other parts of the country, first. Parts of downtown Munich feel a bit like what I would expect at the German section of EPCOT® Center, but it's still wonderful.
Posted by Dean at July 7, 2006 3:47 PM
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