Blogs from Munich, Bavaria, Germany, Europe - page 120

ok, leaving off from rome sightseeing. it was one of the guy's birthday so we had a fun night at the bar at the campsite. we stay in cabins most of the time. so far it's been between 2 and 5 people. some have bathrooms, otherwise it's a communal toilet block. oh by the way, italy doesn't use toilet seats!! just the cold porcelain bowl - very uncomfortable but oh well. anyway, greg's birthday was good. he turned 19 and was not too well the next day but he definitely had fun the night before!! i wasn't going to stay long - onlq til they played a bad song, but they never did. left rome and went to venice. i'm in love with that city. it's gorgeous - so romantic. we went in at about 3ish ... read more

Germany lives in a fantasy world -- it's a kind of Emperor's New Clothes story, but there are no little boys, so nobody ever sees past the transparent lies of the con-artists. Just look at the new BMW 3-series, introduced with a lavish floor show on March 3 in the old bicycle stadium at the Munich Olmpic Park. The show started with a warmup bit of patter byMonica Lierhaus, a lithe German sportscaster of 25 or so in a series of sculpting, slit-skirted dresses. She talked about how carefully she normally evaluates requests to endorse products, only wanting to endorse products she personally knows and cares about (gimme a break!), but how easy it was to agree to endorse the new Beemer because she has always loved them and drives them herself (gag me!). Then she ... read more

Sounds crazy but when you meet Katy's mom your only option is to eat like crazy. I ate 2 huge lunches at their house and didn't have to eat again, but of course we did. We drank a great meal at the HofBrauHouse. We spent one day visiting Ludwig's catles, very nice and super snowy. We visited Dachau (a concentration camp) on the 60 aniversary of Auschwitz, very sobering. Overall Munich proved to be a vry fun place to visit and it lived up to my expectations that all of Germany should eb covered in snow...... read more

Up at 6:15am this morning, which was way too early, though I was first in the showers, which was the best thing. I was fully refreshed then when we all had breakfast. Today we depart Venice and head through the Austria Tyrol, passing Innsbruck, and onto München (Munich), the capital of Bavaria, in Germany. We stopped off at Krisallwelten Crystal Gallery, just past Innsbruck, the capital of the Austrian Tyrol. This was a weird place, as it wasn't actually clear why it was there. It was more an exhibition place on crystals, where you could buy pretty much anything in crystal. I bought a small crystal for 30 euros, and it looks really good in the sunlight. From here we had a few photo stops, and then arrived at München at around 4pm. Our first port ... read more

FC BAYERN TRAINING@SÄBENER STRAßE 1443　ICE 1090　München-Pasing 　　昨晚那台灣客又夠搞笑的，自己是最後一人上床也不關燈，我想那兩名Dortmund人正在苦笑，我唯有自告奮勇爬下床關燈好了。夜晚9時才飲可樂，所以遲了入睡。 　　昨天之前的行程設計是Füssen，但清早起來又想，我可以先到Säbenerstraße看Bayern的練習，之後可以到車程較近的Augsburg+Nürnberg，豈非一舉數得？ 　　S-Bahn離基地很遠，我帶來的簡圖只有幾條主要大街，中間的路要自由發揮。雖然被一條L型的街擺了一道，但還是給我摸上了。 在發現自己即將摸對了門、從側門進入場地，發現越來越多的球迷時，腦裡想著的是：我竟然到了二十多歲才學那些小孩子去追星！！ 　　網頁說練習9:00開始，我到場時已經是9:25，但仍未見球員出現。我見大門口有一大堆人聚集，於是也跟了上去，又無端給我鑽進了最前的位置，但又有何用？等了很久，球員從另一個出口進場，我只好先上商店，買了Frings的金色球衣（€75！！），可惜長袖版還有約4星期才上市，等不及了。 　　我再走到場邊，望了很久也不見Scholl的蹤影。我左邊的女人（傳媒是嗎？）架起「大炮」，不斷轉來轉去發炮，有時鏡頭幾乎架在我的頭上。我問她"Ist Mehmet Scholl nicht hier"她說不在，因為「他年過三十。」唉！ 1500　ICE 1090 （con’t）之後換場作盤扭練習，我最想看的Frings，Salihamidzic常背向我，我們給鐵絲網隔著，拍照很不方便。最好笑的是當Santa Cruz入球時，對面立即會有一班女士尖叫；Salihamidzic本來一直背著我們的，但當有小孩用極嬌嗔的語氣叫'Brazzo'時，他也忍不住轉過臉來露一露有趣的笑容。 當天的程序是這樣的：一隊球員魚貫進場，擁有最多歡呼聲的是Michael Ballack，之後便要數到Roy Makaay。首先在旁邊草... read more