Day Five, Or Friday the 13th ...
(Actually, the 13th is usually my luckiest day.)
A little word of advice for those of you considering a vacation to Germany - most places (like museums) open at 10 AM and close at 8 PM. And sometimes they never open on Sundays.
So I took my time getting ready to sojourn today, and made my way down to the Isar River. Munich straddles this river, and a diversion of it supplies water to the artificial lakes in the English Garden. On an island in the river stands a huge building dignified with the name of German Museum.
Now, you`ve probably gotten the idea that I like museums, and this place almost vacuumed me up never to be seen again. It has an entire tugboat and a sailing coastal fishing vessel on display inside their Maritime Hall, along with a working windmill (you know, the kind the Dutch use) sitting just outside. Their aircraft hall has a beautifully restored Junkers Ju-52 trimotor transport plane.
Computers? How about the first German computer, built by Zuse in 1944? Or Dr. Geiger`s first radiation counter? And of course it has a lot of other things in it as well, as the museum is dedicated to everything - chemistry, physics, power machinery, electricity, you name it. There´s an annex up in the northwest suburb of Oberschleissheim, and I will be visiting that Saturday afternoon (I couldn`t score tickets to the FC Bayern München game). What cheeses me off a bit is that they`re opening a transportation annex near the Oktoberfest meadow of Theresienwiese - but it opens on the day I leave!
Speaking of the Theresienwiese, I did get out there to take a few pictures of the forlorn and empty pavilions, as well as the towering bronze statue named 'Bavaria`that looks down on the field. It must be thirty feet tall, I swear.
Well, nothing much to talk about for today, so I'll try out another biergarten and rest up for my trip tomorrow to Dachau. Ought to be interesting, as well as disturbing.
A little word of advice for those of you considering a vacation to Germany - most places (like museums) open at 10 AM and close at 8 PM. And sometimes they never open on Sundays.
So I took my time getting ready to sojourn today, and made my way down to the Isar River. Munich straddles this river, and a diversion of it supplies water to the artificial lakes in the English Garden. On an island in the river stands a huge building dignified with the name of German Museum.
Now, you`ve probably gotten the idea that I like museums, and this place almost vacuumed me up never to be seen again. It has an entire tugboat and a sailing coastal fishing vessel on display inside their Maritime Hall, along with a working windmill (you know, the kind the Dutch use) sitting just outside. Their aircraft hall has a beautifully restored Junkers Ju-52 trimotor transport plane.
Computers? How about the first German computer, built by Zuse in 1944? Or Dr. Geiger`s first radiation counter? And of course it has a lot of other things in it as well, as the museum is dedicated to everything - chemistry, physics, power machinery, electricity, you name it. There´s an annex up in the northwest suburb of Oberschleissheim, and I will be visiting that Saturday afternoon (I couldn`t score tickets to the FC Bayern München game). What cheeses me off a bit is that they`re opening a transportation annex near the Oktoberfest meadow of Theresienwiese - but it opens on the day I leave!
Speaking of the Theresienwiese, I did get out there to take a few pictures of the forlorn and empty pavilions, as well as the towering bronze statue named 'Bavaria`that looks down on the field. It must be thirty feet tall, I swear.
Well, nothing much to talk about for today, so I'll try out another biergarten and rest up for my trip tomorrow to Dachau. Ought to be interesting, as well as disturbing.
posted by Walt at 11:51 AM
1 Comments:
I hope you are going to set up a photo blog when you get back. I love to travel vicariously through others. ;)
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