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Monday 29th July
My other son and I chose to head over to Munich. I could book QF reward tics with Iberia 3 days ahead (20,000 pts per tic)
Vigo via Madrid to Munich

Some pics from the train journey
Trains
Scenery
Bridges
San Simon
Looked like a millionaires paradise
BUT
it was actually a concentration camp for communist, republican, socialist and anarchist political prisoners. It remained in operation until 1943

Island of San Simón - Wikipedia

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29th July
Was a mad dash to the Madrid IB Lounge but reality of flying Y With Zero food, a flight gate far flung from the Lounge because it’s a Regional jet (think QantasLink bombardier) and a late arrival in Munich and a one stop train to the airport based hotel

Space age pace

 

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Tuesday 30th July
Dynamic Art at the airport
Love it when a person “enters the picture art”



Sendlinger Tor down by the cheaper hotel. Tiniest room ever. Backs onto a fire escape and an IT Hub and no air conditioning

 

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The Rathaus
Wonder of artistry and a “sneak” up the back steps …the library there is centuries aged
We were horsing around
Loads of wooden sculpturing and stained glass windows so a couple of examples
Even got in a horse ride
And then there was the exhibition of the piano Instrumentalism

 

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So a bit more “Hanging Auf” with the doves of peace

 

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Time for that Quintessential Deutsch Abendessen (Wiener schnitzel).
The German part of course is only the beer. Schnitties were invented by the Austr(Al)Ians right ?





Oh with a side of U-Bahn and Strassenbahn

 

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After 32 year ‘wait’
finally do a visit.



The original tour brochure “promised” we would see the Munich Olympic stadion
But the bus zoomed by and the tour director said
“If you look to the left you won’t see the Olympic Stadium cause that be hiding over there on the right”
Zoom zoom zoom
He had no intention of stopping for a walk-by (advertising BS at its finest)

That said the 2024 version saw the Tower closed and as you can see the lights were well and truly Orf

 

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Wednesday 31 July
Munich

(Uploading the next photos as we Missed the midday train to Georgia
So in the rather empty Al Boraq Forest class lounge here where Ingrid Bergman asked for a re-run of “As Time Goes By”

Next trains at 2pm)

Meanwhile

Munich

Sendlinger Tor


The. Church in the Mall
St. Johann Nepomuk, better known is a beautiful Baroque church



Some local art

 

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31 July
Getting my full strassenbahn fix
Balloon loop seems like a kids dream

 

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31 July
Late breakfast at a funky café


Leberkase
Oh it’s wonderful
Reminds me of nights out at the Adelaide Fringe at the circus down by the Festival Theatre


Orf to Nympehenburg in the streetcar tram and we are greeted by fish
The

 

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Nyphemburg was the Summer Residence of King Ludwig amongst others. The monarch was booted out after WW2

 

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Truly opulent
How the top monarchy tier spend their easy
Plenty of artists commissions
That’s the palace economy. Every country FIGURATIVELY has one

 

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The backyard BBQ

Sadly we had to walk down the road and pay for our own Bavarian Beer

 

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1 August and it’s a lovely breakfast before a rail day trip down the Starnberger See

Sendlinger Tor the other side
An English lady stopped us today as we admired this church from afar to tell us it was the church the plane carrying the Man United team crashed into back in the 50s. She was loving living down by one of the Bavarian Sees!

 

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Thursday 1 August
A rail trip means some train photos and some interesting buildings
Starnberg ferry too

 

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Bernried
Local vending machine was selling fancy chocolate !
Perhaps it could go with the strawberry ?

 

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Buchheim Museum
My neighbour was born nearby and his father recommended this adventure
It was absolutely superb !
Loved it
Lunch first

 

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Always good to see heads in the sand and heads in the clouds



And our !’heads’! just enhance the experience of art

 

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A selection

 

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Buchheim was a poster boy for Goebbels as he wrote a book about life on a U-boat
So life after the war become one of circus and and the collectors riding on other animals