Possenhofen - with another day trip to Munich

During the night two more guests turned up, so we didn't have the whole youth hostel to ourselves for the whole night!

We caught the train into Munich again after breakfast, and as it was a Sunday there were no shops open, spent the day museum hopping. First we went to the State Greek and Roman Collection, though there didn't seem to be any Roman stuff there at all. A selection of antiquities on display is below.

This was after we accidently directed two Poms in the wrong direction to an exhibition they were after. We also discovered that contrary to our guidebook, exhibitions/museums do cost on a Sunday, though less than on other days.

After the museum we decided to brave the underground rail system and catch the train to the next museum. It went without a hitch, though the train driver didn't really seem to enjoy his job, at least if his announcements were anything to go by. We then walked to the next museum - the State Archaeology Collection, which we did the wrong way round (from latest to earliest periods), and Tim bought some Roman coins for his ancient history colleagues.

We then caught the train back into the centre of town, wandered around a little, found where Hubert (one of the two academics we met in Freiburg) worked, and walked along the most expensive shopping street in Munich (Versace, Prada, Gucci, Chanel, Armani etc) to the Ethnography Museum, which when we got there was so busy we decided we couldn't be bothered.

So we wandered back and caught the train back to Possenhofen. It was interesting that even though no shops were open (not even the tourist ones) there were still lots of people walking around, and there were thus buskers out, including the American Indian buskers (complete with feather headdresses) that we had also seen the day before.

When we got back to the youth hostel it appeared that is was just us and Otto again, but after dinner when we were watching tv (nothing worth watching) another guest turned up, to our and Otto's surprise.

Before dinner Tim went for a walk (I stayed warm inside and knitted and watched a German cooking show) and found the local schloss where Sissi grew up. He also walked along beside the lake, Starnbergsee, and watched the ducks freezing in the water.