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  • Fancy Show Church

    This church was built by church builders basically as a showroom to sell their talents. So pretty much everything in it is fake but looks impressive.

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    Jesus was locked up behind bars, and not very happy about it.

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    This angel was about to strangle himself, but the skeleton stepped in.

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  • Residenz

    The Residenz is the old royal palace in Munich. It was badly damaged during the war and reconstructed from pictures. They are still restoring parts.

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    This statue is wearing an elephant hat.

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    This is the grotto. They made a courtyard in a fancy palace look like an elaborately decorated cave.

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    Caves are apparently decorated with seashells.

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    Lots and lots of sea shells.

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    In very unnatural colours.

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    I can’t tell whether this guy is supposed to have horns or a crown.

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    This is a big empty hall where rich people used to eat.

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    It has a big collection of carved heads of dead people.

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    The ceiling has old paintings of all of the cities in the area. Munich was much smaller back then.

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    Royal bedrooms never look very comfortable.

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    This is the 18th century version of taking a picture of in a lab coat in front of test tubes filled with food colouring to make them seem sciencey.

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    This is a depiction of the annual banana harvest. The bananas are in the background and they are obviously collecting pineapples, but the label said it was a banana harvest so it must be true.

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    There were lots of weird rooms with weird paintings and mirrors.

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    This seems like a way to break a very expensive clock.

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    I don’t remember what this is, but it looks shiny and expensive.

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    This is the head of John the Baptist. There are only eight of those in the entire world!

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    This is the fancy room where the relics used to be stored.

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    This is the secret doorway out of the King’s bedroom.

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    This is the king’s bedroom. The fence is for the audience who got to watch him go to bed and wake up in the morning.

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  • Fall in Munich

    Look at all the pretty colours and all the leaves.

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    Even though it was freezy cold it was pretty out so that made it bearable.

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    We have no idea what the monuments or statues were of but the walk was very pretty.

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    This building stuck out of the trees. It was something that was important enough to be on the map, but not important enough that we bothered to visit it. Or remember what it was. But we haven’t become lazy or anything.

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    There  was a river that flowed through the park.

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    It was pretty.

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    People were surfing on the river.

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    Which seemed cold and dangerous.

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    But there was a long lineup of people in wetsuits waiting to try.

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    This is some Bavarian government building.

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    It was a pretty day for a walk in the park.

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