My first activity today was a Third Reich walking tour of Munich. The weather was pretty cold, not Calgary cold, but more like Toronto, it's not that cold, yet wet in a bone-chilling kind of way. The good side of that was that my tour was one guide to four folks, and one ducked out part way. The tour way really interesting, and covered a bunch of places and buildings that were significant to Hitler and the Nazi party. I'd recommend checking it out if you happen to be heading to Munich shortly, for example, if your name rhymes with Beth Crill.
After the tour, I finished off the day at the Munich Jewish Museum. It was definitely interesting if not quite what I expected. I guess I thought it would be a little bit more historic and less artifacts. I did learn a lot, which is good, and lots of it was in English. The set-up of one exhibit was pretty funny. They had stories to read on these lighted round pillars, and you could rotate them as you went. There was German on one side and English on the other. Sounds like a genius idea until you get a few people reading and someone rotates. I guess no one thought of that.
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