After breakfast, where once again we were the only ones, we caught the train to Munich again, so we could go and visit Hubert.
We could some shopping first and even found a shop with nice touristy things in it, rather than cheap and awful!
We went to visit Hubert, and he and Tim chatted some more about the thesis, and then we went on our way again - it was Hubert's first day back at work after 2 weeks holiday and he had 60 emails to read!
It was nice to be walking in Munich without enormous crowds. We did a bit more shopping and then decided to treat ourselves to lunch in the restaurant under the rathaus (town hall), which was very nice, though quite expensive. We both had wiener schnitzel. There was a strange party of people at the next table - a guy who appeared to be Russian, or slavic of some kind, who seemed to be out to lunch with his family. He seemed intent on showing off how much money he had, and kept making ridiculous demands of the waitresses. We felt very sorry for the waitresses.
After doing a bit more wandering and some more shopping we decided to go and visit the home stadium of Tim's favourite football team - Bayern Munich. So we caught the underground (the U-bahn) to Fröttmanning where Allianz Arena is, and discovered that despite the name, the U-bahn isn't always underground. The station at Fröttmanning was an enormous space age thing that reminded me of Olympic Park station here in Sydney - not surprising really! We walked about 10-15 minutes in the freezing bleak weather to the stadium, which can only be described as bizarre. It's a great round thing that looks like it's covered in a round puffy jacket - some people have likened it to a tyre. We were able to walk right in, and also visited the fan shop, which was huge. We discovered that there were tours of the stadium but they went for an hour and we wouldn't have had time to get back for dinner.
We could some shopping first and even found a shop with nice touristy things in it, rather than cheap and awful!
We went to visit Hubert, and he and Tim chatted some more about the thesis, and then we went on our way again - it was Hubert's first day back at work after 2 weeks holiday and he had 60 emails to read!
It was nice to be walking in Munich without enormous crowds. We did a bit more shopping and then decided to treat ourselves to lunch in the restaurant under the rathaus (town hall), which was very nice, though quite expensive. We both had wiener schnitzel. There was a strange party of people at the next table - a guy who appeared to be Russian, or slavic of some kind, who seemed to be out to lunch with his family. He seemed intent on showing off how much money he had, and kept making ridiculous demands of the waitresses. We felt very sorry for the waitresses.
After doing a bit more wandering and some more shopping we decided to go and visit the home stadium of Tim's favourite football team - Bayern Munich. So we caught the underground (the U-bahn) to Fröttmanning where Allianz Arena is, and discovered that despite the name, the U-bahn isn't always underground. The station at Fröttmanning was an enormous space age thing that reminded me of Olympic Park station here in Sydney - not surprising really! We walked about 10-15 minutes in the freezing bleak weather to the stadium, which can only be described as bizarre. It's a great round thing that looks like it's covered in a round puffy jacket - some people have likened it to a tyre. We were able to walk right in, and also visited the fan shop, which was huge. We discovered that there were tours of the stadium but they went for an hour and we wouldn't have had time to get back for dinner.
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This second photo hopefully gives you some idea of the puffy covering on the stadium - you can see the lit stairs in the bottom part of the photo.
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It was incredibly bleak, though amazingly not snowing, and this is a photo of a windmill that was right beside the stadium carpark, on a hill. I have not doctored the photo in any way, just to show you how dreary and cold it was. Brrrr!
We caught the U-bahn back into the city and changed for an S-bahn back to Possenhofen. There actually seemed to be more people staying there that night!
