Category Archives: Munich

The past weeks

Berlin, GeoCaching, Munich, Nuremberg

Being on parental leave and partially in the offline world over the past weeks has caused my blog to run a bit dry. So being back in Munich it’s a good time to wrap up some of things that happened.

I’ve had my first ever geocaching giga event (Mia san Giga!). In fact, the whole world had its first giga event on 16 August 2014. Though I only stayed shortly at the main event, I, together with some fellow cachers (greetz), used the day to do some more geocaching and had a nice walking tour somewhere south of Munich.c5556ad3-370b-4077-9349-49e3ab7ed949

After that, we took off for some holidays in and around Berlin, which turned out to be surprisingly disconnected from the online world, again full of geocaching and filled with meetings … with friends, not work (greetz to everyone).

On our way back home, and due to the twelve hours of horrible traffic on the southbound highways we had already faced, we decided to have a little break and stay for one night in Nuremberg. We got ourselves a room in a well located Youth Hostel, right next to the old castle and used the time to see some parts of the city.

Now we are back in Munich trying to get back to a bit of routine …

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Berlin, Munich

IMG_20140801_110230Today, I changed the license plates of my old and new Hyundai from Berlin plates to Munich plates. I had to destroy the  Berlin Bear seal on my old plates myself. An emotionally moving moment, which the Bavarian clerk did not fully grasp. She tried to calm me down by offering me the Münchner Kindl as substitute, but as you can see, she failed to know their own seals. It ended up to be the lesser coat of arms of Bavaria. Well … in her defence, the Kindl ended up sitting in one of the papers I got , but still.

In the end, I have to say that I was quite impressed by the efficiency of my visit at the authorities. Despite the waiting time (57 people in front of us and today no advantage in bringing the your little son), the whole procedure, including office work, payments and pressing/printing the new plates only took 20 minutes. The fact that we jumped on the wrong train afterwards, did probably cost me more time after all.

Excitement

LMU, Munich

… well … at least a little bit of entertainment.
I was volunteered to call 112, smash the window and hit the fire alarm button at the institute today … yeah :)

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Musical welcome to Munich

Munich, Music

After about a month in town I finally had my musical welcome … Laurent Garnier was playing at Rote Sonne yesterday night!

Business as usual (in the good way), it was a loud night, it was a long night, it was a great night. Though in fact he ‘only’ played for about four hours this time. Dunno what got into him ;) It’s just particularly funny as the location (which was quite nice btw.) announced the gig with, amongst other, the following quote: “Selten endet ein Set von ihm vor sechs Stunden”. Meaning that, rarely one of his sets is shorter than six hours!? In his defence, the club was already quite empty when he stopped around six in the morning.

Anyways, it was good to see that he would at least show up in Munich (not necessarily famous for electronic music).

As said, the location, Rote Sonne, was quite decent. Sensible sound, the usual amount of annoying I-need-to stand-still-on-the-dance-floor-with-my-drink-in-my-hand, I-need-to-score-tonight and we-need-to-dance-in-a-circle people, but around four in the morning most of that sorted itself out.

It f****ed up my Saturday morning, but I am happy :)