We got up early and had some breakfast in the hotel and then it was off the the Mercedes Benz Museum.. This museum is brand new and it was like nothing we had ever seen. The striking 8 floor glass and concrete architectural masterpiece housed the finest collection of any museum (of any kind) we had seen anywhere in the world.
The display was amazing, everything looked like jewellery. There would have been tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars in the collection.
The building itself was a piece of art and housed the full history of Mercedes Benz company with full size buses, trucks and cars on all levels.
As with all museums there was a gift shop.. Again it was the most beautiful we had seen with Benz bears, tshirts, snow domes, big pencils and every Mercedes Benz car. It was 4 floors with every model for sale and on display- there was about every colour and assessor y. We got a few brochures which were basically hard cover books.
The highlight of the gift shop were the model like car sales girls.. Rex Gorrell has got a lot to learn about staff…they were hot. The museum also had some famous cars- they had the real Popemobile, and Lady Di’s Benz- not the one she crashed in but a nice little sports version.
We took a while to work out how they got the buses and trucks in and worked out they must have had huge lifts in the 8 storey high foyer which lifted the 40 foot machines up into the display area. It must have been an amazing task.
After the Benz museum it was back in the car for the 2 hour drive to Munich
We got to the hotel about 4 and headed into town on the subway which took about 10 minutes. Munich is a nice old town with plenty of historic buildings and a nice shopping district- but the place is built around beer halls- they are everywhere and beer is tasty and cheap.
We went to the world famous Hofbrahaus which was huge beer hall in city. Remembering Oktoberfest was on up the road the place was still chockers with people chanting songs and doing the zikki zacki.
The beer was tasty and served in heavy glass litre mugs. We only had the one and a giant pretzel an then did a bit of a tour of the city at night visiting a few establishments.
