Seven ideal breaks from Munich conferences, congresses and fairs

The best MICE events are intense, varied and exciting, so it's good to take some time to relax. This is especially easy to do in Munich.

White sausage is one of the most famous culinary legends of the Bavarian capital - and rightly so. Anyone who hasn't at least once eaten white sausage with pretzel and sweet mustard - preferably, but not necessarily late in the morning - is missing out on something essential.

Good white sausages can be bought anywhere in Munich, but very good ones, perhaps even produced in your own sausage kitchen, are very rare. Perhaps the best of them can be tasted at Wallner, the wholesale market restaurant in Untersendling. Marienplatz is just a few metro stops away. But be careful: the food at Wallner starts and ends quite early. Everything is like at the wholesale market.

Gaststätte Großmarkthalle, Kochelseestraße 13. Monday to Friday from 7:00 to 16:00, Saturday from 7:00 to 13:00.

Munich is one of the few cities in the world with a population of more than a million people, right through which flows a turbulent river, and not only that became navigable thanks to the locks. The southern 8 km section, where the Isar River flows through the city, was restored to its natural state in 2011.

The river is at its most beautiful at Flowers, an area slightly north of Tierpark, where it meanders between several large islands with tall trees and extensive pebble beaches.

A tube ride from the city center to Flowers takes only about ten minutes, and this trip is worth it.

Right next to the Haus der Kunst art museum, the Eisbach, a crazy offshoot of the Isar, bursts out of an underground channel, forming the most famous standing wave in the world - very -very far from the sea on Munich's Prinzregentenstraße. Just stand there, watch the surfers, be amazed - and maybe shout like the locals: “Alohabediehre!”

You can see the Eisbach wave on the Prinzregentenstraße between the Art House and the Bavarian National Museum. It's a good ten minute walk from Odeonsplatz.

The most famous bar in Munich and the most famous bartender in Germany - if not more. The high school of stylish mixology cultivated by Charles Schumann and his waiters, easily accessible by metro from any direction, is difficult to understand.

Those who remain respectfully obliging will reap respect. Others can always enjoy a walk through the magnificent courtyard garden right behind the restaurant.

Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 2:00, closed on Saturday. Sunday, 17:00. to 2 a.m., Odeonsplatz from 6 to 7. Easy to get there by metro.

The English Garden, which begins right behind the Hofgarten (Court Garden) and the Haus der Kunst art museum in the heart of the city, is one of the largest city ​​parks in the world - even more than New York's Central Park. By the way, it is called the English garden because it is laid out in the natural style of English landscape gardens, and not strictly geometrically, like French Baroque gardens.

In the southern part, as far as Kleinhesselocher See, there are always big open-air parties during the summer months for Munich's many artists. In the northern part, on the other hand, you often find yourself alone surprisingly quickly, but are still in the center of a big city.

The fastest way to reach the southern entrance from the city center is via Odeonsplatz and Hofgarten.

Munich has a lot of beer gardens, and many of them are beautiful. But the best music is perhaps heard in the beer garden of the Chinese Tower in the English Garden. Matthias Achatz and his band play here on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays after lunch, and on Sundays from 12:00.

In Bavaria and its surroundings, trumpeter, arranger and orchestrator Matthias Achatz is considered one of the best brass band conductors. Moreover, he and his band are sitting on stage not far away, but at a height of a good seven meters, on the second floor of the Tower, which gives the music a much greater scope and grandeur than is usually the case. An amazing experience.

English Garden 3: Take the metro to Universität station and then walk through the English Garden.

Munich is a Catholic city. But the only true saints are the anarchic comedian and brilliant patterer Karl Valentin and his congenial partner Liesl Karlstadt.

The small but wonderful Valentin Karlstadt Museum in Isartor is dedicated to their wit, which reveals the spirit and soullessness of Munich more than any guidebook, no matter how thick: “I would like to, but I didn’t dare.” By the way, 99-year-olds accompanied by their parents enter for free.

Im Tal 50. Open daily from 11:00 to 18:00. On Sundays from 10:00. Closed on Wednesdays.