We’ve been very busy hopping about from one fascinating experience to the next, taking in as much as possible, and watching the days just melt away. Time is going by so fast that keeping up with my blog duties is proving to be more challenging than anticipated so unfortunately some destinations, as you can see, are starting to merge together in the blogs. Also, as luck would have it, we’re once again having WiFi issues and there are some days we can’t even “log-on”. It’s amazing how dependent we’ve become to the web-world for keeping in touch, administering our affairs, our photos and doing research, hopefully we get back to normal soon.
Munich was a blur as we were on-the-go morning to night the entire time we were there. We had a great campsite about 20 minutes from the centre of Munich. Not far from the downtown station was the famous Hofbrauhaus House where we managed to squeeze in three fun filled visits making many new friends while sitting at the long communal tables and soaking up the excellent atmosphere and beer. On Sunday we walked the entire 1972 Olympic Site which looks almost as fantastic today as it did in 1972. We spent some time in the stunning BMW Museum Building next to the Olympic site and really enjoyed the performance put on by the very talented BMW team motorcycle rider as he raced his Sport Touring bike through the building doing wheelies up and down the stairs and impressing the large crowd with his riding skills. On Monday we had a fast paced day touring the Deutsches Museum where we really needed two more days to do it justice. On our final day in Munich we visited the Dachau concentration camp memorial and walked away shaking our heads.
The drive to Nuremberg was lovely and on our arrival, we were surprise by its historical allure. In Nuremberg we visited “Courtroom 600” (which is still in use today) where the WWII war-crime trials took place. We thought this would be a quick trip but with the interesting attached museum it ended up taking much longer than expected. Later we went to the “Documentation Centre” museum (A massive unfinished building that Hitler was going to use as his “Congress Hall”) and then to the neighbouring “Zeppelin Field”. Both these sites and a number of others near-by played very significant roles during the rise to power of the Third Reich. The size and scale of this stuff staggers the mind. Today we had a fantastic drive to Stuttgart where we camped near the enormous Mercedes-Benz Centre right beside the test track for new cars. Tomorrow we plan on touring all seven spiralling floors of the modern Mercedes museum and then have a look at the Porsche Arena next door.