...expanding my brain...

So not having a job in this new city of ours allows me to wonder the streets all day and look at all things beautiful.

Today I went to the Alte Pinakothek, which is an art museum situated in the art area in Munich. It is one of the oldest galleries in the world and houses one of the most famous collections of Old Master paintings. The museum galleries were designed to display Rubens's "Last Judgment" , one of the largest canvasses ever painted, (size 608,5 x 463,5cm). It is amazeballs.

The name, Pinakothek, alludes to the time period covered by the art — the Neue Pinakothek covers 19th century art and the recently opened Pinakothek der Moderne exhibits modern art, all galleries are part of Munich's "Kunstareal" (the "art area").

The Last Judgement, 1617. Peter Paul Rubens.

and here are some other masterpieces I saw today...

Peter Paul Rubens, Albrecht Dürer & Leonardo Da Vinci

Next week I am doing the Neue Pinakothek and the Pinakothek der Moderne. Its really exciting and fun.

...just for you Debs...

So the other night we were sitting outside playing this board game and I heard a rattling in the garden. When I looked I saw a hedgehog, yip a real life crawling cute little spiky hedgehog in Sven and Colleen's back garden...we tried to feed him some lettuce but had no luck, then took out the camera and snapped away...check it out.

...couch/bed/hello guests...

Wollie and me have been strolling around furniture shops to find a suitable couch for our new flat. We want a big nice comfortable couch that can also be used as a sleeper couch, so that we have space for all our friends. I just found this one on Pinterest...if we get this then 2 extra guests can sleep in our new housie.me loves it!

...beerhangover 2.0...

On Monday and Tuesday, Colleen's friend Vanessa came to visit and we did some exploring on Monday and ended up at the Hofbräuhaus Munich on Monday late afternoon. Its one of the biggest tourist attractions of Munich and oh boy I understand why. We drank so much beer and shots and ate traditional german food while listening to another Umpa band. It was too much fun.

Then we had to leave because we started banging on the table and the "bouncer" came and reprimanded us and Sven started to get all cocky with him so the "bouncer" told our waiter to not serve us anymore beer. oops.

We had to find our way home which turned out to be a bit of a struggle, as we all wanted to get onto different trains.

The following day we were all super hungover and couldn't get much done. The boys ended up working from home in their PJ's and we watched numerous episodes of Glee. But later in the afternoon we got off our growing butts and went exploring again.

PS: Jlo...I found your favourite street and cannot wait to take you there....

...Belated birthday, I love presents...

Yesterday Colleen and me went to meet her friend, Colleen, at this shopping center in Trudering. After the coffee date we just had to go to H&M and look at all the prettiness in the shop. I walked out with this pretty ring that Colleen bought me as a belated birthday gift. I love it! Thanks friend!

 

I also bought these awesome little socks at the DM, which is like clicks, check it out they even have pads at the bottom so your foot has some protection...me likes!

...i want to ride my bicycle...

This is the bicycle I want to get for my Germany days....with a big basket in the front and then I can cycle around town in minty green style.

...apple pie...

On Tuesday we decided to make apple crumble, which is totally easy. Colleen has a theory...she says  the reason people here in Germany eat so much apple pie is because the apples taste so horrible. So in order for them to eat the apples, they need to make something out of them...therefore they make apple pie, so we also tried it. Check it out, it was delicious and we stuffed our faces!