4. Hitler's Munich, Poppies, St Peters, Vietnamese food.

Munich lives with its history.  This was where Hitler founded the National Socialist movement and it remained the party headquarters during the war, even while the government was run from Berlin.

It was a lengthy walk, covering places where resistance people were interrogated, the Hotel Torbrau where Hitler met with like-minded people, the Hofbrauhaus where he held his meetings, Dodgers Alley where people used to walk to avoid saluting to a Nazi memorial, and Hitler's office (the Fuhrerbau) where he met with Neville Chamberlain in 1938.
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 This is the building today - the eagles have gone.

There was also a memorial to the victims of the National Socialists.

We could see these places, safe in the knowledge that we were in modern Germany.

This weekend is the 100th anniversary of the end of the first world war.  There are poppies too in Munich, a recent thing I gather.

On a lighter note, we climbed the 316 steps up St Peters Tower, to a wonderful view of Munich.  There was some sort of bell up above us, but it was not hung for change ringing.  Fancy climbing all those steps for a view and not for bells.  But we did. Plenty of handrails for balance and not too much of a challenge.

The longer view.

 The autumn colours are lovely.

And Vietnamese for dinner tonight. I have noticed that the noodles are cut up - no long slurping here!  Perhaps it is just easier to eat them with a fork - we had to ask for chopsticks. The flavour was recognisable.  Presumably they could not get Vietnamese mint so used ordinary mint.  A bit of mental re-orientation was needed when the Vietnamese owner spoke to us in German!