Possenhofen - with a day trip to Munich

There was a large group of teenagers plus three adults who stayed overnight and left this morning. Tim spoke to one of them and they were a singing youth group. We made sure we got our breakfast before the hordes cleaned it all up!

We walked to the station to catch the train to Munich for the day, and just caught the train, only to discover that we needed to validate our ticket (after buying it) in a machine on the station, not on the train. We got off two stops after we got on, to validate our tickets, and then had to wait 20 minutes in the freezing cold for the next train. When we finally got into the city we got off at Marienplatz, which is just outside the Rathaus (Town Hall) where the famous Glockenspiel is.

We happened to be there at 11am when it went off, but it sounded very sick, and it took a long time for the figures to move - we wandered off, deciding it needed some work!

We started our morning by going to the Fire Department Museum where Tim saw lots of exciting things (he used to be in the NSW Rural Fire Service). Then we walked back to the main shopping area where the crowds were becoming enormous (the sales were on).

Then we found our way down one of the most expensive shopping streets to the Egyptian Antiquities Museum where Tim went berserk taking lots of photos for school (he teaches Ancient History). A selection of the photos are below.

After the museum we did some shopping, and barged through the crowds from shop to shop. There were lots of lions around the place (in the same vein as the Berlin Bears) all decorated in themes and colours. I don't know what the significance of them were. I have included the photo of the lion below specifically because Tasmania is missing (those poor Tasmanians have no home yet again).

When we had finally had enough we caught the train back (once we'd found the right platform to catch it from), except we got on a train going to Starnberg, which is the right direction, but one stop before ours. So we ended up waiting on Starnberg station (once again in the freezing cold) for 20 minutes for the next train to take us one more stop. There were some ambos taking a youngish girl away on a stretcher when we got to Starnberg - we don't know what happened.

Once we finally got to Possenhofen, as we walked from the station to the youth hostel we speculated about how many guests in total would be at the youth hostel that night. I guessed 10, Tim guessed 6. When we saw the carpark, it was only our car and the guy on staff's (who we had nicknamed Otto). When we went for dinner Otto told us that it was just us!

After dinner we retired to the 'bistro' in the hope that Otto might serve us some drinks, but he nicked off. So we went into the conference room next door to the bistro, where there was a tv, and watched telly all evening - even an episode of Inspector Rex that we hadn't seen before (though unfortunately without the subtitles that SBS obliges me with)!