Munich Day 3: Germany vs Portugal

Mandy:

We started off the morning by meeting our Munich Greeter Yvonne at the Haidhausen neighbourhood for an authentic German breakfast. Yvonne is a very friendly IT freelance journalist and she taught us a lot about the Munich culture. She explained that although Hofbrauhaus has become very touristy, 50% of the visitors are actually still locals because of organized daily/weekly meetings called stammgäste. Each reserved table has a wooden painted flag hanging on top of the table. Yvonne also showed us 2 traditional Munich houses that dates back to the 19th century. The small and short houses were homes for families of around 15 people =\

Delicious breakfast

19th century Munich houses

Couple photo by the Isar river

Our greeter Yvonne

We decided to part with our greeter to go to Viktualienmarkt to buy some snacks for our trip to the English Garden. I was surprised to see a fruit stall had lychee, longan, jackfruit and durian! The durian was 18 euros a kilo though, lol. We bought some raspberries, strawberries, fresh fruit smoothies, post cards, Muji pens and we were off to the English Garden! We were short on time since we were meeting Andreas to catch the Germany vs Portugal world cup game so we didn't really explore the English Garden. We found a spot and chilled out. Two locals were sunbathing but it really wasn't that hot, haha. 

fruits galore

Beautiful day at the park

Norm lounging as always

Mandy eating fruit like always

strawberry

Writing to my lucky friends

Our plan was to meet Andreas and arrive at the largest beer garden, Hirschgarten, before 6pm to get a seat before the football game. Hirschgarten is the largest beer garden in Germany and possibly the world. It seats 8000 people but we still could not find a spot!! Germans really take their football seriously. Alas, we couldn't find a spot and had to take the metro back to the city to find a pub that had room for us. By the time we sat down, Germany already scored 2 goals but at least we saw them score another 2 and won the game! =) 

8000 Germans....

....8000+ litres of beer

schnitzel