English Garden

This guide to Munich's English Garden follows a narrow, ice-cold channel of the river Isar where a standing wave formed by accident in the 1970s turned into an underground obsession. It traces a teenager named Quirin Rohleder, chased off with a confiscated board in the late 1980s, and the decades of surfers who kept riding despite bans and sirens. You'll hear how the city wrestled with what to do about the danger. Stand at the rail near the bridge to watch riders peel off the wave one after another.