Recently, Florian was in an article talking about his hometown, Munich, it's a nice questionnaire where you have the chance to know what he thinks about his city and points out his favorite spots. Before you find out his thoughts on his Munich, join me on this brief presentation of München/Munich.
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Munich is the 2nd most popular city in Germany, capital of Bavarian since 1503 its architecture is a mix of styles ranging from Baroque to Gothic, from neoclassical to postmodern. If you think you have never heard or didn't know much about Munich before Florian, you might be wrong. Munich is not only famous for its sightseeings, but also for its industry, football (soccer), culture and its influence can be noticed in different parts of the world.
To start with, Schloss Neuschwanstein located in Füssen, Bavarian. The inspiration for Cinderella's castle, most of the girls, who once dreamed about being her knows that, but apart from the fantasy, the castle looks really amazing and definitely worth a visit in a life time. Then, Munich has BMW, FC Bayern Munich - Champions League winner, season 00/01 (if Robben wasn't in the squad I could cheer for them, sorry still bitter about that Brazil x Netherlands FIFAWC2010, footy fan can't help), I wonder if it's Florian's club..... as soon as I find out I'll let you know. And then, of course, The Oktoberfest - Bavarian Beer Festival - (starts in the end of September ending at the beginning of October, this year it's from September 17th until October 3rd) lots of days of good beer, food, fun.
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| Schloss Neuschwanstein BMW museum http://www.neuschwanstein.de/ http://www.bmw-welt.com/ |
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| FC Bayern Munich Oktoberfest http://www.fcbayern.t-home.de/en http://www.oktoberfest.de/de
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The influence of Munich, as I said before, can be noticed in some other places, here two pictures to ilustrate: one from Puerto Varas, city from South Chile, close to Patagonia, and the other one is from the 2nd biggest Oktoberfest in the world, according to the organizers, it's here in Brazil, 2hrs away from my place, it starts 3 days after the official one in Munich. You almost can't tell it isn't in German, right?! *Curious facts. But, unfortunately, in none of this places you can find the real bratwurst! hummm......yummy! I've never been to Munich, while living in Germany the farther I went south was Dresden, missed Munich. But these bratwurst can be appreciated everywhere in that country.
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| Puerto Varas, Chile Oktoberfest, Blumenau, Brazil http://www.ptovaras.cl/ http://www.oktoberfestblumenau.com.br/ |
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| Bratwurst yummy, yummy!
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Right, so all of that is Munich, I mean, there is much more of course, but that was just an introduction for what will come. "Florian David Fitz: Mein München (My Munich)". The article is from last April posted in the German site, http://www.sueddeutsche.de/
In the paper, Florian says that the "fancy/glamor" Munich doesn't attract him, he prefers the "simple" Munich, its parks, rivers, beer, the smell of Steckerlfisch in the beer garden. That's why the sightseeings weren't mentioned before, Florian does that: Eisbach, English Garden, Nymphenburg Park, Isar river. He tells the readers what he likes and dislikes most in Munich, what he thinks it's still missing in Munich. By the way, there are no translation for the answers for those questions, so you will definitely learn something new like I did, specially Dahoam, means home, simple as that, but it says all. It's a very nice reading where you can understand a bit more of Florian based on his answers to the questionnaire and see how nice those places are. Original article Full article translated
Check the pictures and links for your virtual sightseeing around Munich. If you are a lucky one to be in Europe in the next month, you have 3 reasons to visit Munich: the sightseeings, Oktoberfest and Männerherzen 2 (next post); the sequence for Florian's first blockbuster will be on the cinemas by next week in Germany, so you might even have a chance to bump into Florian hanging out in the Munich quarters. I'm not a lucky one this time, so I have definitely put Munich on my "places I must visit" list.
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| English Garden |
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| Isar River |
While I was searching for Eisbach, as soon as I saw the pictures, the place looked familiar to me, then I remembered from where, Jason Mraz' video. The video shows Jason in Munich and Amsterdam, you clearly see the Eisbach and the English Garden, where he is biking. Therefore, I finish this post with the video, it's a good soundtrack for a trip around Munich. Enjoy it!
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