As the car was about to turn right out of the parking lot, it was stopped by a rude horn. Turning his head, he saw a black Audi speeding into the crowded and narrow alley. Yunluo hesitated for a moment. Well, it has been more than ten days since he returned to China. Yunluo should get used to this barbaric way of communication.
Reversing and waiting, a black Audi passed by and slowed down slightly in front of Yunluo's car. Through the car window, Yunluo saw a pair of resentful eyes, probably because Yunluo was reversing too slowly. His mood was not affected too much, which was the positive energy that travel gave him. After seeing so many calm, peaceful and modest attitudes towards life, his own life also slowed down unconsciously.
A very classic Chinese idiom "rushing to be the first" comes to my mind. I really hope it disappears from students' textbooks as soon as possible.
The self-driving trip in Europe is full of joy and is a very vivid lesson in self-cultivation. Even on the fastest German highway in the world, no one races against each other. Large cars, small cars, fast cars, and slow cars each go their own way without interfering with each other; even in a big traffic jam, no one goes against the flow, cuts in, squeezes in, or even turns around.
All the cars were well-behaved and parked slowly in their own lanes; when changing lanes, he would give way as soon as Yunluo turned on the indicator light; on the mountain road, no matter how slowly Yunluo drove, he would follow silently behind without honking or flashing high beams; when crossing the road, before Yunluo's feet stepped onto the zebra crossing, he would already stop steadily there and wait quietly.
It didn't take long for Yunluo to learn to be peaceful and modest, and in return he was greeted with waves and friendly smiles. Life is a journey that cannot be turned back, so why rush to get there, miss the beautiful scenery along the way, and ruin your good mood for viewing the scenery.
At midnight, the plane departed from Yunluo's city and flew over the Eurasian continent. It carried Yunluo to a new journey. In the morning, the plane landed at Munich Airport in Germany. Outside the window, the sky was just slightly bright, and a new day had just begun. Because of the time difference, Yunluo stole an extra 6 hours. Munich. Yunluo is here!
Munich, the capital of Bavaria (Bayern), the third largest city in Germany and the uncrowned capital of Germany.
Just like everyone has their own looks and temperament, every city has its own atmosphere and pulse. Munich's charm lies in the perfect combination of tradition and modernity. In a 40-minute ride, the train goes from the airport all the way to the city center. What flies by is not a forest of high-rise buildings, but retro short houses.
This is Munich, the locomotive of Germany's economic growth, but it has maintained the same lifestyle and status for thousands of years.
She is very conservative! In 1944, Munich suffered a devastating air raid, and the entire city was almost reduced to ruins by the Allies. After World War II, many destroyed German cities were rebuilt with reinforced concrete forests, but Munich stubbornly restored the medieval style.
She is very open! Since 1810, Munich has welcomed millions of tourists from all over the world with the world's most famous and largest beer festival. As long as there is no war, disease or other unpleasant things happening, the old brewery will set up a beer hall on Theresienplatz.
The music starts, the cheers start, the beer glasses clink, no matter where you are from, the enthusiasm here belongs to you.
She is very traditional! National traditional costumes have become synonymous with Bavaria. On weekends and holidays, men wear plaid shirts, leather bib pants, and felt hats decorated with goat hair. Women wear wide-collared corsets, tight vests and plaid long skirts, and drink in the beer garden under the chestnut trees.
She is very modern! The world-famous electronics giant Siemens and the automobile giant BMW are rooted in Munich. She is the most important insurance base in Germany, she has the world's most advanced international exhibition center, and she is the city with the most publishing houses in Germany.
She is very busy! Munich is located in the center of Europe, bordering the Czech Republic and Poland to the east, France, the Netherlands and Belgium to the west, Austria to the south, and Switzerland across Lake Constance. She has the busiest traffic artery in Europe.
She is very leisurely! No major German city has a more leisurely atmosphere than Munich. Time flows slowly on the open-air terraces of beer houses and restaurants. There are always so many leisurely people sitting in the cafes here who seem to have nothing to do.
Munich's classic and modern are perfectly integrated, and this is exactly what makes Munich so attractive to travelers like Yunluo.
Exit the subway station. The hotel is right next to the hotel. The hotel is in a great location, opposite the Karlsplatz at the west entrance, close to the Karlsplatz subway station, one stop west is the main train station, and one stop east is directly to the Marienplatz in the center of the old town. However, the room is small, and the price is driven up by the beer festival.
It was about eight in the morning when we arrived at the hotel. Don't expect to find a vacant room waiting for you during the beer festival, especially in this place where every inch of land is worth a lot of money. Yunluo and Yan Chenyu deposited their luggage and went out to look for food.
The subway station at Karlsplatz is already very busy. The middle part of the circular square is lined with several clothing brand stores, and the outer part is full of all kinds of food. There are small shops that only sell simple bagels, special bakeries that offer a variety of breads, pizza shops with various flavors, and coffee shops with good taste and environment. Yunluo and Yan Chenyu finally chose the original meaning of "at the monks (moenche)".
According to research, in 746 AD, monks built a monastery at the foot of the Alps south of Munich. Around 1000 AD, monks began to settle down in the area where Munich is today, and a market gradually formed around the church. In 1160 AD, Duke Heinrich built a city wall with today's Maria Square as the center.
The city gradually grew and developed. The Munich boy in a monk's robe on the city emblem also symbolizes the origin of the city's name.
Munich is a concentration of buildings of various medieval styles: towering Gothic, magnificent Baroque, and classical buildings that return to the ancient Greek style.
Wandering around is like browsing a living historical scroll. The old street connecting the two oldest gates in Munich, Karlstor and Isartor, divides the old city into two parts, and along the street are all kinds of fashionable brand-name stores and modern cafes.
The north of the street is where the nobles ruled and lived, with the imperial palace (residenz) as the center; the south of the street is the old handicraft industry and commodity trading area. In the old days, the lives of ordinary people and dignitaries were only one street away.
Not far from the street, the eye-catching onion-shaped tower attracted Yunluo and Yan Chenyu's attention. This is the most famous city symbol of Munich, the Frauenkirche Church. The 99-meter-high onion-shaped tower can be seen from anywhere. The exterior of the church is Gothic red brick.
When the tower top was built, the typical Renaissance onion-shaped roof was chosen due to lack of funds. At this time when the clouds fell, the north tower of the Church of Our Lady was under repair.
The day we arrived in Munich was just the end of the Munich Oktoberfest. I was really excited at first, but after checking the hotel prices in Munich that day, I couldn't be happy at all. The small hotels that usually cost 70 or 80 euros rose to 200 or 300 euros during this grand beer festival. It was a steal! Money! Ah!
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For this reason, he once wanted to avoid the Oktoberfest and skip Munich, but Yunluo loved to join in the fun after all. After deliberating for a long time, he finally chose to be slaughtered just to attend the big fair.
The weather was not very good on the day of arrival. It started to rain and blow in the afternoon. In the evening, I went out to see the weather and saw that the rain had stopped and the wind had died down, so I went out to "go to the market". I took the U4U5 from Karlsplatz Station to Theresienwiese Station. The subway was almost full of people wearing ethnic costumes to "go to the market".
At first I thought these people were all locals in Munich, or at least locals in Germany, but later I found out that many foreign tourists who came to the market were also very professional. They would buy a set of local national costumes to better integrate into the carnival atmosphere. As the crowd lined up to walk out of the subway station, it was raining at the Oktoberfest venue. The rain gradually got stronger, and after a few minutes, the heavy rain had caused the tourists to flee everywhere.
I wanted to find a big beer tent to hide from the rain, but I found that the tent door was already closed and there was no one to sit in. The people waiting in line at the door were also soaked. A large number of people rushed to the subway station, and the revelry ended early. There were also people in their seventies and eighties who stumbled slowly with bottles of beer in their hands among the crowds who were trying to hide from the rain.
He seemed to be completely unaware of the heavy rain. Yunluo held an umbrella and took a quick look at the warm and lively beer tents. Knowing that he would not be able to see them tonight, he returned home in disappointment...
The next day, the rain stopped and the sky cleared up. I was unwilling to miss the beer at the Oktoberfest the day before, so I changed my schedule temporarily and got off at the station Z, a small town that I was originally going to visit in the afternoon. There is still a winding road from the subway station to the theresienwiese square of the Oktoberfest, but there is no need to worry about not finding it. Just follow the crowd of people in national costumes and you can arrive at Theresienwiese smoothly.
At noon, the beer tent was already full. You should know that such a tent can accommodate thousands of people at the same time. The entire beer festival tent combined can accommodate nearly 100,000 people! The band played cheerful music in the huge beer tent, but the sound was often drowned out by the cheering people.
Young people stood on tables and chairs, raised their glasses, and shouted "cheers"; the waiters were already busy and happy, and even the thin waitresses could carry dozens of bottles of beer at a time and shuttle through the beer tent. (To be continued...)