5.17.13 Munchen

5.17.13 Munchen

As our journey through German Media continues, our location changes. We find ourselves leaving Berlin bright and early, around 5:30 am to catch our 8:30 departure on Berlin Air to Munich. We sadly say goodbye to our wonderful and spicy tour guide Lorena. She instilled us with much knowledge of the vast city and was very patient with our group. Once in Munich we met our new tour guide. Arnod, which is pronounced like Arnold without the “L” and with the German pronunciation of “D” which makes a “t” sound.

We quickly check into our new home away from home, Europascher Hof. Then it was off to a walking tour through the center of Munich’s tourist area, by our new guide. This area features shopping, both traditional Bavarian, Modern European and tourist shops. The middle of the walkway is lined with stands selling fresh produce and other products.

Sadly we did not have time to do any shopping today but we did get the chance to eat at a lovely restaurant where I finally got potato pancakes, something that I have been looking forward to the entire trip.

After a quick bite to eat, we were off the Munich Tourism Office to hear about their Public Relations. As we arrived a young woman who didn’t look much older than us greeted us. She ushered us into a conference room with a long table lined with Munich Press Kits. Isabella Schopp the young women who greeted us, then introduced herself and described the packets we were given and what her job was at the tourism agency. One of the first and what I think is the most interesting thing that we learned about Munich, during this lecture, was that if we wanted to film or photograph in the city and then use those photos for our website and or portfolios we needed a permit. This wonderful young lady secured these permits for us before we arrived so we needed not to worry.

Isabella informed us about the city as it is today and of its past while describing how the tourism agency sets up Press trips for journalists. Journalists arrive at their hotels to find press kits similar to the ones we received already in their rooms. The agency then gives the journalists tours and helps them with anything else they may need like the permits we received.

After the media visit we had a short break to go to the hotel and freshen up before dinner. For the second time today we went to a traditional Bavarian restaurant. Here we were fed sour krout, pretzels, German potato salad and a variety of meets including white sausage and something that happened to look like spam. The braver of us students tried a little bit of everything but I think the consensus was that we all enjoyed the pretzels the most.  Of course these interesting flavors were washed down with various types of beer, which seems to cost about the same price as water here in Munich.

Now the majority of us are off to bed as we are still tired from the early morning and flight from Berlin

Guten Nacht!