Last weekend I traveled north to meet my Dad in Munich. A little apprehensive about my ability to call a taxi and get to the airport, I woke up very early for my 6:50 flight. Luckily, I was successful in calling the cab driver and was picked up at 5 o'clock. Ten minutes later I was dropped off and ready to go. Only one problem (don't worry I remembered my passport)... The airport wasn't open. I quickly learned that regional airports don't open until about an hour before their first flight of the day. So I stood outside and greeted all the airport employees as they entered the building at around 5:45.
After an uneventful day of travel, I arrived and met Dad at the airport in Munich. On Friday, we saw the Residenz (home of Maximilian I) and walked around the city. We enjoyed a couple of pints at the the Hofbrauhaus and ordered soft pretzels
the lady walking around. We then walked across the street to the Augustinerhaus to try the Augustiner (voted the number one beer in Munich by the travel books my Mom loves).Saturday was a bit busier. We started the day by going to Olympic Park and going to the top of the Olympic tower. Unfortunately it was cloudy but on a nice day the view overlooks all of Munich and extends out to the Swiss Alps. After wandering around Olympic Park, we headed to the nearby BMW Museum. Despite neither of us having much interest in cars, we found the museum very interesting. Here's some pictures from the museum...
The last stop of the day was at the Deutches Museum for Science, Technology, Anything you could possibly imagine. If you very interested in this stuff (Which Dad was... a lot of it just went over my head), make sure you go early in the day because we were there for nearly 2 hours and only saw the smallest fraction of the museum.
Back in Parma now... Get ready for my huge critique of Italian food.
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