> The bunk bed has not toppled over and I am feeling very refreshed after a good night's sleep disturbed only by Jony shouting at me during the small hours to stop snoring - who moi? I had offered ear plugs to J&C but they declined maybe not next time.
> Charlie and his sat nav take us in on a very good route into Munich and to the BMW HQ where I do the 'Premium' tour which takes in the museum, the plant unt der BMW Weild (world). The latter is a little too over the top - we are not that keen on BMW's even if they are BMW Mini and BMW Rolls-Royce. The latter is represented by the most ugly thing you ever saw - 1000 & 1 nights special edition - but has been sold, presumably to a sheik or, more likely nowadays, a Russian. Going round the plant was interesting, very mechanised with robot arms doing intricate manoeuvres with only human activity putting all the innards together, wiring looms, seats, etc..
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> We have a walk around the Olympiapark after which Jony dams with faint praise saying that it is not bad for 1970's architecture (I thinks it is great but must admit that it is looking rather tired and it is mainly unused). The presence of a fun fair in the middle also doesn't help the artistic appreciation.
> We meet up with my German friend, Tillmann, outside the head office of the Munich Reinsurance Company with whom I have been dealing for many years. I don't think the Herr Direktors would want to see me come in through the front doors in my present, unkempt, biker state. Tillmann leads us make to his house where we will be staying until Monday. It is a lot further out than I remember and there are more traffic lights than you would think possible but we get there and after a quick reviving cup of tea we are into a Bavarian meal washed down with Bavarian beer, apart from Jony who asked for German white wine on the pretext that Charlie should try some as it was a favourite drink of his grandfather's (possibly, grandfathers') but manages to try a lot for himself!
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| Charlie blending in on the approach to the BMW experience. |
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| P looking cool outside the ubercool museum |
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> We have a walk around the Olympiapark after which Jony dams with faint praise saying that it is not bad for 1970's architecture (I thinks it is great but must admit that it is looking rather tired and it is mainly unused). The presence of a fun fair in the middle also doesn't help the artistic appreciation.
> We meet up with my German friend, Tillmann, outside the head office of the Munich Reinsurance Company with whom I have been dealing for many years. I don't think the Herr Direktors would want to see me come in through the front doors in my present, unkempt, biker state. Tillmann leads us make to his house where we will be staying until Monday. It is a lot further out than I remember and there are more traffic lights than you would think possible but we get there and after a quick reviving cup of tea we are into a Bavarian meal washed down with Bavarian beer, apart from Jony who asked for German white wine on the pretext that Charlie should try some as it was a favourite drink of his grandfather's (possibly, grandfathers') but manages to try a lot for himself!
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