Saturday trip

Yesterday I made a little trip to Munich to see a couple of things. Unfortunately, weekends are my only opportunity to do this, but hey, it’s cool I have this opportunity at all.

Firstly I went to English Garden to see what it’s like during the summer. I met some guys dressed up like pirates and asked what wass the deal. I learned that one of them was going to get married the next day. The groom had a cart and was supposed to sell the content of the cart within 30 minutes and get 30 euros. Anybody could buy anything for whatever price the buyer was willing to pay and the groom had to accept it [”nothing”, however, was not considered to be a legal price]. If the groom didn’t manage to get 30 euros, he would have to sing karaoke. When I met them it was 7 minutes to go and 12 euros left. I don’t think he made it. I spared him half a euro but took around 3 minutes. However, his buddies probably had a great time listening to his performance.

I also went to Olimpiapark, to see the view from Olympiaturm. The platform is 185m high so if the weather is fine you can spot Bavarian Alps. Yesterday the weather was not that fine, but still I snapped some photos. I also visited Olympiadorf [Olimpic Village], to see the colorful bungalows students live in. [More bungalow photos on Flickr]

I also made the mistake of going to Olympiaeinkaufszentrum. It was horrible, twice/thrice as many people as in Poland, very low ceiling [kind of like in an underpass], total mess.

However, going to Olympiaeinkaufszentrum has a stellar point as well, and this is seeing Westfriedhof and Georg-Brauchle-Ring subway stations. This FloSchMUC guy has marvellous U-bahn photos on Flickr. Definitely worth a peek. Yup, I’m using Flickr not only to upload my pictures, but to find nice places in Munich too;-)