After I took the picture looking down the canal towards the centre of Munich, I turned and walked up the canal and into the grounds of the Nymphenberg. It is very much the Bavarian Versailles. It was built over a span of a couple hundred years by successive Wittelsbach rulers of Bavaria. It is the summer palace on which would have then be the distant outskirts of Munich. As it was I had jumped on the U-Bahn at the Hauptbahnhoff and taken two separate streetcars over a 15 minute span and here I was.

The palace itself as you can see spans the horizon and swoops forward to envelope you are you approach. In the summer I am sure the fountains and canals would be gorgeous. They are equally impressive in the winter, with friendly Eisstukers on the ponds and ever persistent geese wandering around.

	The additional picture besides from within the palace, King Ludwig I after adding wings to the palace is most remembered for two things: 1. An amazing string of extra-marital dalliances that are fully documented in the remarkable "Hall of Beauties" as the picture below shows.   2. He is also remembered as being the ruler overthrown in 1848 during the revolutions that swept Europe. His last mistress as King was the scandalous Lola Montez. That's her portrait on the lower left of the picture.   I wish I had more pictures from inside the palace itself, but you are not actually allowed to take pictures inside. Whoops. The palace grounds themselves actually encompass hundreds of acres out behind the palace and include a variety of smaller palaces scattered throughout woods, canals and walking paths. The weather, which as you can tell from the difference in the sky between the canal picture and the palace picture, is very changeable. In fact I left the sunshine and wandered for an hour and a half in the falling snow stopping for a lunch at the royal greenhouses.