Thursday in Munich: Zoigl Trip - Part 6 of 13

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Thursday in Munich

Zoigl Trip - Part 6 of 13 

The rain returned. We were expecting this, and earlier in the week slotted the Deutsches Museum for this morning. The Deutsches is pretty much Germany’s version of the Smithsonian, except that much of it is in one huge main building, with two other locations around Munich (plus locations in Bonn and Nuremberg). 

The Deutsches main location is way too big to cover in one day. They changed the entrance location from when I was there almost 20 years before, so we hit the massive air and space hall first, which I had missed before. Lots of other people made this their rainy day plan too, so it was crowded enough to be a little tight. 

After having our fill of the museum, we lazily made our way back to the hotel, checking out Bavarian clothing stores on the way. Lunch was in the Viktualienmarkt, at a random place with an enclosed, rainproof seating area.

There is an economic maxim that if you are in an area with one or two restaurants, none of them might be good, let alone great. But if you are in a place with a huge number of restaurants (any Chinatown for example), any and all of them will be good at a minimum. This held true for the Viktualienmarkt, where we picked the place because it was covered and had available seats. This place also had the full line-up of Paulaner beers on tap, so I had a dunkelweizen, a style that tends to be elusive, even in Munich.  

After a break at the hotel, we investigated real Munich life by stopping in a couple of supermarkets, ending up in a strange underground subway station, shopping mall, library combo thing.

 

Later that evening we headed to Der Pschorr. Among the big Munich brewery beer halls, Der Pschorr is an anomaly. Augustiner, Hofbrau, and Schneider’s beer halls in Old Town are all cozy, old, and weathered by decades of nonstop people, beer and food. Hacker-Pschorr’s hall is sleek, ritzy, and very modern, with two floors of dining, and a catering hall on the third floor. The beer to get there is the wood barrel Edelhell. The food, a bit artsier than the other beer halls, was solid but a little pricey. The huge place was jumping all the time we were there. 

And that would be enough for one day, as it was an early start tomorrow to meet Rich at the train station for our Zoigl adventure in the Oberpfalz. 

Deutsches Museum – The Museumsinsel, Museumsinsel 1, 80538 Munich

Der Pschorr, Viktualienmarkt 15, 80331 München, Germany