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Published On: Mar 02, 2008 09:04 AM
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Sun - March 2, 2008
Munchen and more, February 22nd -25th
ITS ALL SO NEAT AND
TIDY
I am a bit behind with the old blog lately, well yes
we are making a movie, that definitely takes some time out of our expeditions.
so I believe I last posted on Wednesday 20th, ok so here 's the next weeks worth
of business.
Spotted the donkey again on Thursday, he is part of the Transpo dept we think, ate in the local restaurant off the studio, not the pizza joint but the "mititea" place, pronounced mit-tit-tay, its a traditional sausage type thing with beef and pork , no doubt fried in something and if you like, served with french fries, the sausage and chips lunch.
I will skip the rest of the studio stuff as its slowwww going , at least it was then ( its not now)
Friday 22nd... yay, early flight ( 7am) to Munich from Bucherest 1/1/2 hr flight got in to Munich at 8am ish, I love time travel (when its useful), and Munich airport, being German and all, is super efficient and organised and clean and everything is working lovely, out of the airport on the S bahn, to the U bahn, and Bobs yer uncle, I am at the hotel having breakfast with the 2 L's by 9am, fan bloody tastic.
So good to see them, they have camp set up , neighbourhood is well canvassed and we are off to explore some more, first stop pastries, cant go to far anywhere in Europe without pastries and coffee.
Jumped on the U bahn down to the Marienplatz to see some giant Glockenschpiely tourist thing, impressive building, lame glockenschpiely thing. wandered around a bit , Lily got the biggest pretzel in the world, she ate it then wore it consumed a lot of it and then I consumed it, then the rest , we tossed.
heres the glockenschpiely thing and the giant pretzel. and some other snaps
We did some other Schnitzel related things that day, and walked up the top of a church to see that view in the picture above, we then headed back to our neighbourhood to eat, it feels abit like the upper west side of NYC where we are staying, a bit , not convinced yet but similar
Next Day, breakfast in the hotel, great coffee machine, good food, yum, heading out to the Deutsches Museum to see some old German things,
WELL!!! lots of great things in here, boats and planes and rockets ( V2) ( bad) my dad told me about those, we'll skip that subject for now, great museum, Guttenburg bible, first printing presses etc, I learnt that Rudolf Diesel invented the diesel engine, I though the fuel came first, huh!! who knew?..... highly recommend this museum, next off to the "auto" section of the museum, a bus ride and a walk away.
This place is a car ( and train) paradise, first production petrol car ( benz), amazing collection of german firsts, international cars, the old NSU's trains, wacky bicycles, mopeds, Fiats, buses
just endless, almost too much for one day, in fact it was , we were dead tired, we dragged ourselves back onto the U bahn and back home and ate Sushi wooohoo and then passed out.
cue the museum pictures
most of them are at the auto/train museum, the Guttenburg bible is cool but it's in a drawer covered in glass and ......well the Messeschmit is right there ....
theres a ton more pictures, I will post them all to another site soon
Ok, so Sunday, we go for a stroll in the Englischer Gardens, big open park near our neighborhood, bit like central park, now it feels even more like the upper west side in the 70's.
anyway, usual joggers and such, and bicycles did I mention bicycles?, everywhere, special lanes on the sidewalks, special lanes on the crosswalks, don't get in their way ....its trouble, you will get run down.
Back to the park, lovely day very sunny, we head over to the lake, we see these signs with Mother and daughter walking side by side ( special lanes for mothers?) anyway L2 decides that on these paths this is how you must walk, as things are very orderly and organised here, this must be the way.
Funny walks aside we head to the lake for some pedal boat action, and then into the Beer garden.....yes, it seems that Sundays in the Beer gardn is very very traditional, almost religious I would say, hundreds of people , getting giant beers 1/2 chickens big sausages/ pretzels, pate, odd meat things, and giant beers, I have to say I could go for some of this on a Sunday back in the US, could be a thing....
heres me an Lil at the lake side beer garden
and then we wandered over to the "chinese pagoda" beer garden
Packed, gotta love those germans , ooompah bands and all at this one, great family fun, and oh did I mention the giant Beers,
we like Munich,
Later Sunday, Lil and I headed off to some distant pub to watch the Carling cup final, both being die hard chelsea fans, we were ultimately disappointed in the 2-1 loss, and trudged our way back to the hotel, Italian food for din and then, sleeeep
Monday, last day in Munchen for me, I am back to Bucherest this evening at 9pm, so we wander about , buy an english newspaper to get some news, saw this arc de triumph ( every city seems to have one)
except this one still has WW2 damage on the sides and front
more of this type thing later.....in Bucherest
did some shopping, and more wandering about, back to the hotel packed up,
had to say a tough good buy to the 2 L's , very hard indeed, they will be back in a few weeks, to Bucherest next time.
down the U bahn to the S bahn, check in at a machine at the airport foyer, straight to the passport control, (no stamp) and to the gate , man thats efficient and so neat and tidy too.
( BTW Frankfurt airport is the complete opposite)
arrived in Bucherest at -00-15 Tuesday
Spotted the donkey again on Thursday, he is part of the Transpo dept we think, ate in the local restaurant off the studio, not the pizza joint but the "mititea" place, pronounced mit-tit-tay, its a traditional sausage type thing with beef and pork , no doubt fried in something and if you like, served with french fries, the sausage and chips lunch.
I will skip the rest of the studio stuff as its slowwww going , at least it was then ( its not now)
Friday 22nd... yay, early flight ( 7am) to Munich from Bucherest 1/1/2 hr flight got in to Munich at 8am ish, I love time travel (when its useful), and Munich airport, being German and all, is super efficient and organised and clean and everything is working lovely, out of the airport on the S bahn, to the U bahn, and Bobs yer uncle, I am at the hotel having breakfast with the 2 L's by 9am, fan bloody tastic.
So good to see them, they have camp set up , neighbourhood is well canvassed and we are off to explore some more, first stop pastries, cant go to far anywhere in Europe without pastries and coffee.
Jumped on the U bahn down to the Marienplatz to see some giant Glockenschpiely tourist thing, impressive building, lame glockenschpiely thing. wandered around a bit , Lily got the biggest pretzel in the world, she ate it then wore it consumed a lot of it and then I consumed it, then the rest , we tossed.
heres the glockenschpiely thing and the giant pretzel. and some other snaps
We did some other Schnitzel related things that day, and walked up the top of a church to see that view in the picture above, we then headed back to our neighbourhood to eat, it feels abit like the upper west side of NYC where we are staying, a bit , not convinced yet but similar
Next Day, breakfast in the hotel, great coffee machine, good food, yum, heading out to the Deutsches Museum to see some old German things,
WELL!!! lots of great things in here, boats and planes and rockets ( V2) ( bad) my dad told me about those, we'll skip that subject for now, great museum, Guttenburg bible, first printing presses etc, I learnt that Rudolf Diesel invented the diesel engine, I though the fuel came first, huh!! who knew?..... highly recommend this museum, next off to the "auto" section of the museum, a bus ride and a walk away.
This place is a car ( and train) paradise, first production petrol car ( benz), amazing collection of german firsts, international cars, the old NSU's trains, wacky bicycles, mopeds, Fiats, buses
just endless, almost too much for one day, in fact it was , we were dead tired, we dragged ourselves back onto the U bahn and back home and ate Sushi wooohoo and then passed out.
cue the museum pictures
most of them are at the auto/train museum, the Guttenburg bible is cool but it's in a drawer covered in glass and ......well the Messeschmit is right there ....
theres a ton more pictures, I will post them all to another site soon
Ok, so Sunday, we go for a stroll in the Englischer Gardens, big open park near our neighborhood, bit like central park, now it feels even more like the upper west side in the 70's.
anyway, usual joggers and such, and bicycles did I mention bicycles?, everywhere, special lanes on the sidewalks, special lanes on the crosswalks, don't get in their way ....its trouble, you will get run down.
Back to the park, lovely day very sunny, we head over to the lake, we see these signs with Mother and daughter walking side by side ( special lanes for mothers?) anyway L2 decides that on these paths this is how you must walk, as things are very orderly and organised here, this must be the way.
Funny walks aside we head to the lake for some pedal boat action, and then into the Beer garden.....yes, it seems that Sundays in the Beer gardn is very very traditional, almost religious I would say, hundreds of people , getting giant beers 1/2 chickens big sausages/ pretzels, pate, odd meat things, and giant beers, I have to say I could go for some of this on a Sunday back in the US, could be a thing....
heres me an Lil at the lake side beer garden
and then we wandered over to the "chinese pagoda" beer garden
Packed, gotta love those germans , ooompah bands and all at this one, great family fun, and oh did I mention the giant Beers,
we like Munich,
Later Sunday, Lil and I headed off to some distant pub to watch the Carling cup final, both being die hard chelsea fans, we were ultimately disappointed in the 2-1 loss, and trudged our way back to the hotel, Italian food for din and then, sleeeep
Monday, last day in Munchen for me, I am back to Bucherest this evening at 9pm, so we wander about , buy an english newspaper to get some news, saw this arc de triumph ( every city seems to have one)
except this one still has WW2 damage on the sides and front
more of this type thing later.....in Bucherest
did some shopping, and more wandering about, back to the hotel packed up,
had to say a tough good buy to the 2 L's , very hard indeed, they will be back in a few weeks, to Bucherest next time.
down the U bahn to the S bahn, check in at a machine at the airport foyer, straight to the passport control, (no stamp) and to the gate , man thats efficient and so neat and tidy too.
( BTW Frankfurt airport is the complete opposite)
arrived in Bucherest at -00-15 Tuesday
Posted at 02:18 AM Read More
Sun - February 10, 2008
First Saturday and Sunday
catch up, shop and explore
Saturday, Shopping,
Alex drove us out to the Giant Blue Swedish Place where you get all your cheap bits and pieces for the apt that only has 3 of the basics in the cupboards. If there hadn't been so many overly dressed women with shiny bits attached to their black clothes I could have been in the Giant blue Swedish store in Oakland, its just the same down to the food in the restaurant and the buns on the way out the door.
Electronics store next, printer/copier purchase, success , moving on.
Grocery store, always fun in a foreign market, funny names for products, colorful packaging, cheerios in a bag etc, ordered meat from the deli counter, very brave.
back to the apts.
Took a walk down Calea Victoriel,......insert text from tourist site........... Calea Victoriei is Bucharest's oldest and arguably, most charming street. Built in 1692 to link the Old Princely Court to Mogosoaia Palace, it was initially paved with oak beams. The street became Calea Victoriei in 1878, after the Romanian War of Independence victory. Between the two world wars, Calea Victoriei developed into one of the most fashionable streets in the city.......end text....... you can see the many layers of architecture in this city right on this street, from the early to mid 1800's right up to the oppressive Ceausescu era apartment buildings, so many beautiful old structures just wasting away. and others restored and maintained as government or civic buildings, The Plaza where old Ceausescu was shot is a popular spot, as is the giant oppressive Parliament building which is not actually on this street, it is apparently the second biggest building in the world next to the Pentagon ( square footage).
here's some of that Architecture , the Central Library
A Freedom Monument ( I think)
fading beauty
An arcade inside the above building
This too
And in an adjacent passage, this arcade straight out of Blade Runner, or not
And the mighty Pile, The Parliament building, wow that is big!
Walked around in a big circle and headed back to the apartments, COLD wind, freezing face, I see why everyone wears a hat,
Spoke with L&L on the ichat video, cool, grabbed a bite with MG,
time to catch up on the sleep.
SUNDAY 10th FEB
Slow start, very slow, managed to catch up on the time zone,jet lag issues, read some, watched some Obama news
went for another exploratory walk, this time in a different direction,
check this out, sort of spooky looking!
A fixer upper for sale
Let sleeping dogs lie, they were all fast asleep, all tucked up
and a touch of the old cubism in a modern world
BRrr freezing cold by the end of the walk, a few snow flurries and back to the apt to watch the game,
and heres L &L on the video hook up watching the game too!
Sporting the colors.
and thats about it, caught up and ret ta go for Monday!!!!!
ciao
Alex drove us out to the Giant Blue Swedish Place where you get all your cheap bits and pieces for the apt that only has 3 of the basics in the cupboards. If there hadn't been so many overly dressed women with shiny bits attached to their black clothes I could have been in the Giant blue Swedish store in Oakland, its just the same down to the food in the restaurant and the buns on the way out the door.
Electronics store next, printer/copier purchase, success , moving on.
Grocery store, always fun in a foreign market, funny names for products, colorful packaging, cheerios in a bag etc, ordered meat from the deli counter, very brave.
back to the apts.
Took a walk down Calea Victoriel,......insert text from tourist site........... Calea Victoriei is Bucharest's oldest and arguably, most charming street. Built in 1692 to link the Old Princely Court to Mogosoaia Palace, it was initially paved with oak beams. The street became Calea Victoriei in 1878, after the Romanian War of Independence victory. Between the two world wars, Calea Victoriei developed into one of the most fashionable streets in the city.......end text....... you can see the many layers of architecture in this city right on this street, from the early to mid 1800's right up to the oppressive Ceausescu era apartment buildings, so many beautiful old structures just wasting away. and others restored and maintained as government or civic buildings, The Plaza where old Ceausescu was shot is a popular spot, as is the giant oppressive Parliament building which is not actually on this street, it is apparently the second biggest building in the world next to the Pentagon ( square footage).
here's some of that Architecture , the Central Library
A Freedom Monument ( I think)
fading beauty
An arcade inside the above building
This too
And in an adjacent passage, this arcade straight out of Blade Runner, or not
And the mighty Pile, The Parliament building, wow that is big!
Walked around in a big circle and headed back to the apartments, COLD wind, freezing face, I see why everyone wears a hat,
Spoke with L&L on the ichat video, cool, grabbed a bite with MG,
time to catch up on the sleep.
SUNDAY 10th FEB
Slow start, very slow, managed to catch up on the time zone,jet lag issues, read some, watched some Obama news
went for another exploratory walk, this time in a different direction,
check this out, sort of spooky looking!
A fixer upper for sale
Let sleeping dogs lie, they were all fast asleep, all tucked up
and a touch of the old cubism in a modern world
BRrr freezing cold by the end of the walk, a few snow flurries and back to the apt to watch the game,
and heres L &L on the video hook up watching the game too!
Sporting the colors.
and thats about it, caught up and ret ta go for Monday!!!!!
ciao
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