GERMAN EFFICIENCY......NOT

Beautiful day yesterday, rained all day today. Planned for it with a comprehensive 3 route HoHo bus tour.

Visited all the major sites in Munich, which I have to say is a very nice place. BMW world & offices are impressive, you must be paying too much for those wagens. Perhaps DT has a point. Went for lighter grub today, not sure we succeeded with an Asian bowl for lunch followed by coffee & cakes German style at 4pm. Our last HoHo was a Swabian trip that was scheduled every 2hours from 10:30. We were wandering near the HoHo terminal at 13:30 & up pops an unscheduled bus. We hopped on, as you do, & off we went. Not many people on it, being unscheduled - German efficiency1.

Got back to hotel this evening to pack & sort out trip to airport on Sunday, don't wanna mess up, what with clock changes to discover that rail trip planned now has bus replacement service due to leaves on line or some other stupid excuse - German efficiency2. Re-plan now going ahead.

That walking man's a big boy, BayernFC supporters pretty happy in town today, top of league by 6 points, HK to get his first trophy?

EIS ZWEI G'SUFFA

 Here we are in Munich, journey had it's ups & downs. The train journey & everything leading up to the flight were all great, not so good the rest of it. Boarded early, started to push back and the dopey man operating the tug turned it at too great an angle & got it jammed on the nose wheel. Finally got it released but now the Captain wouldn't go any further until it was checked by an engineer to confirm it hadn't over rotated. Half hour later we started to taxi again & flew off to Germany wondering if the nose wheel would collapse on landing. It didn't! At Munich we got lost on the way to passport & had to re-trace our, so instead of being first in the queue we were last.

This is the town hall, it has an animated mechanical clock where knights joust & beer barrel makers dance.

Beautiful little baroque church that was once a private chapel for the Asam brothers

Hofbrauhaus beer Keller holds about 4000 people. Apparently there's a sign inside that says Gooners not allowed 

These are the clock characters in the town hall

Had a nice meal in the Pschorr beer Keller. Lovely place that brews it's own beer and only sources produce locally around Munich. Had traditional German fare, sauerbraten and pigs hock with pickled veg. Amazing I got the beer to balance on the food like that.

CAN WE GO?

Off to Munich this morning, not sure if we going when we run into a red light at the exit from the apartment. It was OK it went green soon after. Public transport to Heathrow but weaver train late so we would miss our connection on to the Elizabeth line. Driver saved the day & cut out all the scheduled stops between Seven Sisters & Liverpool Street. Good for us but other passengers not impressed. Otherwise perfect trip & now lounging in business class room at Heathrow.

Other good news pension increase of 1.7% & postcode win - woohoo.

Can't decide to do Nazi walk or HoHo, let's see what the weather brings.