One of the advantage of living in Munich is that it doesn’t take us long to drive to Italy so we occationally do it over long weekends. In German there is even a saying that, Munich is the Northern most part of Italy and Milan is the Southern most part of Germany, meaning that Munich or Bavaria has quite a strong connection to Italy, and the other way around.
We love coming down for skiing in the winter and for some city trips during summer time because the weather is always nicer and the foods are always better in the South ;-).
