The Capital of Bavaria

Deutsches Museum

Unlike the name suggests the museum is only related to popular science. There are two floors dedicated to aviation and its history. One of the most interesting recent marvels of engineering is the cross-section of a Lufthansa plane and the cockpit of Airbus A320. On the upper floors, which there are four in total, there are exibits related to the Moon landing and German/American rocket science programmes.

In another part of the building there is also an exhibition fully devoted to ciphers and cryptography machines. Various classical ciphers are explained in the form of interactive actions - one can learn simple substitution ciphers like ROt13, ultimately enjoying a full ATM with some explanations. The mid-part is The Enigma machine - an important piece of World War II, as seen from the eyes of a mathematician.

BMW Welt

Germany was built on science and engineering, therefore after visiting the science museum I quickly ran into the metro to visit BMW Welt - a huge complex of BMW buildings featuring the main headquarters, the factory, a museum and a brand-new giant showroom. The museum has almost all of BMW cars and motorcycles on display, featuring record breaking machines - in terms of speed, innovation and comfort.

The museum felt a little awkward, for they haven’t accepted any cash payments. The only way to get the ticket to the museum was to use an ordering booth, which looked like the one in McDonalds. You pay and receive a ticket to then scan at the entrance, no human intervention. The museum is quite large featuring over 20 rooms, afterwards you can go through a bridge over a wide street to enter the showroom, which features BMW, Rolls Royce and Mini. The Mini one caught my eye as it had this gamers’ lair atmosphere.

Marienplatz

Back to the city centre I went for an evening shopping, bought some local groceries, visited the Apple store and took this photo of The City Hall, which I believe was inspired by The Brussels Town Hall in Belgium.

Infrastructure

Only when I stopped and left the train at Marienplatz did I realize, that I’m four stories underground and there are eight metro lines that meet here. It was surprisingly difficult to leave the station as the signs didn’t help with the navigation. The same issues arose when I later went to the train station in the evening. I was surprised on how weird the Main Station of Munich looked like, and by the fact that now it is a Muslim district, where many people hissed and yelled at me, presumably because I was the only guy with long, blonde hair in the radius of a kilometer.

It was typical for the Deutsche Bahn to be late, and the delays happened again. The train was supposed to leave at 19.13 to Innsbruck, it fällt aus, so we had to wait until 19.56 for another train to Austria. The whole waiting part was terrible, as there was no place to sit and charge phone in possibly one of the longest chain of stores I have ever seen.