Remember our travel theme for Munich? Beer and cars? While we spent many hours at the BMW museum, we probably spent an equal amount of time enjoying the beer. They hold Oktoberfest in Munich for good reason. Look at the bucolic garden above in which Benjamin is enjoying a liter (?) of beer. And look at me below enjoying a stein.
We also enjoyed several Bavarian desserts that looked like large fried pancakes. Beware, each dessert serves about a dozen.
As it was becoming clear that we needed a mob to finish our dessert, the skies opened up and hail pelted down. We made a dash for the covered patio, but even that covering couldn't hold out this summer storm. So we made a dash for our hotel while everyone else sensibly went inside and we got thoroughly soaked.
That hotel is the Torbrau, the oldest operating hotel in Munich. It's been operation since - wait for it - 1490. They have updated the interior; the showers and faucets work very well and it is all modern chic in each room.
The hint that it's old is the miniature elevator which fits two comfortably and had to be shoehorned in between the stairs, and the scene of drinking debauchery that has been recreated at the base of the stairs, I guess to illustrate your stay at the Torbrau had it been 1490. It's like the Torbrau version of the Disneyland Pirates of the Carribean ride.
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