September 28th (Part 1)
September 28th, 2006 at 10:29am
| Started off the day with a 5 k walk to the BMW museum. The museum is currently undergoing a huge redevelopment with a monstrous new complex a few months away from completion so they had set up a small exhibition over the road in some portable huts. There were only a few vehicles and bikes but for 2 euro it was worthwhile.
The museum is in the Olympic park which is quite stunning with rolling green hills ponds beautiful gardens and some of the most striking sporting facilities which architectural features are still cutting edge some 34 years after the games.
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we took the ride up the tower it was quiet foggy so views weren’t that good. They were advertising the tower as the world tallest rock museum….mmm should have been the worlds crappiest rock museum. They had a few backstage passes from acts which played the stadium, a piano Elton John used in a concert there and some newspaper cuttings of some of the recent performances there over the last few weeks like Robbie Williams, Madonna and Pink and a photocopied letter from the Beatles.
We then went on a self guided tour of the main Olympic stadium which was pretty interesting.
we headed into the main city area got a sausage and litre of beer, now Oktoberfest isn’t the only thing that has been happening in Munich this month. They have just had a visit from the Pope- the place has gone crazy for him. He has his picture or merchandise everywhere they love the guy.. don’t know if he was in town for Oktoberfest or just a few sausages and beer….we should have bought that Pope T-shirt and pope beer mug. |
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The city is decorated with these lion statues. It was one of the art projects for the World Cup. There are hundreds of them all differently painted and all doing different things they really brighten up the place. We liked this one he was drinking a beer. |
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| We then headed back to hotel via the new Allianz stadium. This is the bubble stadium which changed colours which you would remember from the world cup soccer.
a quick shower and on the train to Oktoberfest. ……. |
