Tour Diary: Munich and Schloss Nymphenburg

My Munich experience consisted of coffee, a walkaround, picking up stamps and buying a lens cap. Sometimes days are just dictated by thrilling errands. I still managed to get a good bit of the city in while I looked for the perfect coffee spot.

Back at the venue I decided to take my wandering further and go to the Schloss Nymphenburg. I saw the aerial view of the castle on a map and I was like, I’m so going there. Except I’d already been there. Ten years ago, I sat teasing the swans with my friends Heather and Charlie on an Interrailing trip. This fact only hit me as I walked up to the castle, sensing a weird familiarity, then it all came flooding back. A proper grown-up now, I refrained from heckling the swans, well not too much.

It’s an incredible palace which totally comes alive in summer, you almost feel like you can see frolicking cherubs or is that too many cereal bars? Even on the cusp of spring there’s fun to be had, the inside is the most ridiculous example of baroque styling I’ve seen and outside is a crazy landscaped garden, made to look like English woodland. It’s quite eerie. I walked for ages around the grounds, over bridges, past little lakes and adjunct castles. The fact that I’d been there about ten years ago and forgot sort of freaked me out and set off a few brain meanderings. There weren’t very many people and it was perfect for a lonely little walk and a think.