Hey folks iits
time for the first real report. We had to lift ourselves out of our
jet-lagged beds. We had an interesting breakfast and then counquered
the 1 foot square shower in our appartment. We set off a bit groggy
and not in the best of moods. Our first destinaition was the Deutsches
Museum of technology. We saw more machines than we had ever seen in
one spot. The museum covered topics from aerospace to cars to bridgebuilding
(and many more, all in amazing detail). It was absoulutely amazing
to see some of the fighters that I had only read about. We saw the
first real jet fighter, the ME-262, and saw one of three streamlined
30s 328 BMWs. It was very cool. We had lunch at the Mueseums
resturaunt and observed the screaming teenagers running through various
social gyrations. We had seen our fill of machines and we were ready
for some peace and quiet. We took off for Nymphenburg, a good imitation
of Versailles. We walked the entire canal on our already tired feet.
We thought we had read that we could rent some bikes and ride around.
But it turned out we couldnt. Oh well. So we looked briefly
in the main palace and then took off to look at the grounds (todays
picture is taken on one of these nice paths). We looked around at
various different houses (they called them huts but they would be
at home in the Hamptons). They were pretty cool and if you got over
the gaudy decorations they were really nice spaces. After Nymphenburg
we took off for our appartment. We found that there is a tram line
stop right near Nymphenburg. It turned out that this tram line would
put us within a stones throw of our apartment so after a brief
wait we sank into the seats and went back.