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On Monday we spent the morning at the Deutsches museum, which is renowned as being one of the highlights of Munich. It's a museum showcasing the successes of science & technology, not only in German history, but also more generally speaking. It's absolutely massive, & there's no way you could make it through the whole thing in a week, let alone in a day, or 3 hours! So instead we settled for a whirlwind tour through the wonders of pharmaceuticals, musical instruments, mechanical toys, & new technologies.
Around lunchtime we actually managed to meet up with Tom Rowley, Barbara, Ben, & their friend Paul Addison (Add, his friends call him) at a pub near the Viktualienmarkt. We decided to make the most of the fact that we'd actually managed to find each other, after 3 days or relaying messages & near misses, & we ended up spending the next 6 hours with them in that first pub (& then another) drinking beers, talking, laughing & reminiscing. Tom & I spoke about times at school, & Add told us about all the crazy things that they used to get up to when he, Tom, & Barbara were living in Munich together for a year or so in the 70s. Tom & Nigel discovered a mutual love of metal music, to Nigel's great delight, & he also finally had people (OK, boys :P) to talk to about sport…mostly English-Aussie cricket rivalry stuff! It was a really wonderful afternoon :)
By 7:00PM, having only had a couple of pieces of bread & cheese for "lunch" Nigel & I were wandering around, deliriously hungry, upon discovering that the place where we'd made reservations for dinner was really more of a bar than a restaurant & had only 4 things on the "menu", which consisted of the things the "chef" reckoned he could whip up. Hmm…fortunately on our wanderings we managed to stumble right across the Hofbrauhaus! And we figured, what better way to end our time in Munich than right where we began it :)
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Nigel's dad It sounds very much like you are having a ball though I have concerns about your livers. We are in Exmouth after a week in Coral Bay catching fish and snorkelling with those sensible enough to live in a sanctuary zone. Look after yourselves, though the liver can regenerate it does take a while. Love to you both, Rod & Kay PS Uncle Josh's mum passed away early today peacefully listening to Mozart.