A Stroll in the English Garden, Munich I had enjoyed watching the surfers from the beaches in Portugal, but I never expected to see surfers in the middle of Munich! This is like nothing I have ever seen before. A section of the river has been dammed up to create a surfable wave. The surfers are a hardy lot too – they surf the wave day and night, summer and winter! No wonder it’s called the Eisbachwelle, the Ice Stream…
Königsplatz; Lenbachhaus, Munich Ah, the artful Oldies slipped another art gallery onto the agenda! This time, Lenbachhaus, which, I have to say, was well worth a visit. I loved the venue itself, where a modern extension is cleverly wrapped around one side of the original Lenbach villa. The main collection features famous names including Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, many of whom were part of the ‘Blauer Reiter’ group. I came away with the impression of a wonderful use…
Visits to BMW Museum and BMW World, Munich Even a Winged Wonder like me knows that Munich is the home of the world-famous marque, so it was pretty much inevitable that BMW would sooner or later appear on the agenda. Now, the Oldies are not particularly into cars. Normally, their only interest in motorised vehicles is purely as a means of getting themselves from A to B. But I never figured that the BMW Museum would bring out the petrol…
MUCA Gallery; Inge Morath Homage Exhibition Hah, I’m quite the arty birdy! When I heard the Oldies we were going to a modern art gallery, I thought I’d be out of my depth as usual. But I was chuffed that I immediately recognised the works of not just one, but two of the artists. Good old Andy Warhol is a very familiar face after our trip to Medzilaborce in Slovakia. Banksy, too, after our visit of the unofficial exhibition of…
Werksviertel District in Munich When the Oldies pitched up in Munich, I soon realised that almost everything here is on a much larger scale than I am used to. For a start, the Werksviertel where we were staying, is an enormous complex of buildings on the old Pfanni factory grounds. I’d never heard of it before, but this potato dumpling manufacturer is apparently a household name in Germany. The old works are now being converted and many new buildings added….