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Nymphenburg was a tremendous highlight for our visits to Munich.  We have visited Nymphenburg twice, and both visits are included in this photo gallery.  Our first visit to Nymphenburg was on a very cold, wintery day with a fresh snowfall.  The temperature was down in the teens and it was breezy, so we bundled up pretty heavily.  We got some really pretty snow shots, but we definitely did not stay around outdoors very long.  But when we returned that same year in the late spring, we got a chance to see the palace gardens all green and were pleasantly surprised with some of the added attractions.  As we found the scene to be beautiful in its own right in both seasons, when we rewrote this chapter in 2006, we decided to include both sets of footage.  Hence, using the photo gallery format.

Getting to Nymphenburg was very easy.  The Nymphenburg borough was at the end of several streetcar and bus lanes running directly from the main Munich train station.  The primary road nearby cut across the canal, so we got a great view of the white palace in the distance.  We were surprised that even though Nymphenburg was famed as the birthplace of King Ludwig II, that fact was not made so apparent in the palace museum.  Also, Nymphenburg did not employ the same restrictive access procedures (guided tours only, etc.) that the other Koenigschloesser employed.  So, not only was this palace less expensive and less overrun with tourists, it was a more pleasant place to go.