I woke this morning and realised I had enjoyed the festival so much last night that leaving the hotel before 10 sounded far too energetic. The day long drizzle meant the English Garden probably wasn't going to be as pumping as I'd hoped. We decided it would either be the new Pinakothic or the Residence. I left it up the kids and Castles trumped art.The Wittelsbach family commenced the residence over a thousand years ago. Each generation kept adding their...

Little old towns not designed for cars, and illiterate tourists that don't yet understand the less common road signs make for a comical enough combination. Add an early morning marathon and you end up with a scene straight out of the Grizwald's - at least that's what I imagine we looked like, creeping down an ever narrowing street in the citroen, before opening out, red face, onto the town square. Any earlier and the marathon runners would have only a...

Our final day in Munich and Bavaria turned on the sunshine big style. An unintended stroll through Gypsy town got the adrenaline pumping first thing in the morning, which made breakfast in a picturesque shady courtyard all the more relaxing.It took a bit but we eventually tracked down our hop-on-hop-off tour bus and set off to see it all from the top deck. First a stop at the enormous Schloss Nymphenburg, then BMW World where I resisted to urge to accessorise the...

We took a stroll down to Marienplatz for a lazy breakfast before I headed back to the most exciting part of the planned Munich activities, a brewery tour of Franziskaner! Unfortunately my tour guide lacked my enthusiasm, he stayed in bed to nurse his head cold, at least I'm pretty sure thats what the security guard was trying to convey with those gesticulations conjoining his nose and a mess in a hanky. Whatever, its holiday time and I'm in a city that se...