#petuelring

Toms Kaffee-Moment: Petuelring, 9:46 Uhr

Nicht immer sind die Ausblicke von den Taxiständen verlockend. Am Petuel-Stand sieht man zwar auch das nord-östliche Ende des Luitpold-Parks, im Blick hat man allerdings auch zwei Bausünden aus späterer Zeit. Die könnten auch in einer postkommunistischen Metropole, wie Belgrad oder Sarajevo stehen. Macht nichts, denn einen guten Kaffee kann nichts entstellen!

Hi everyone!  Grüezi mitenand!   Hallo allerseits!   Üdv mindenkinek!   Ahoj všetci!

Hi everyone, my twenty-years-ago journey is soon to be over, only two more stories including today.  No more cold weather from January 2002.

I woke up in my room at the hotel in the Schillerstraße.  My room was facing a neighboring building so no noise from Schillerstraße.  Breakfast was on the second floor.  Because it was still cold and snowy outside, I decided to not leave the hotel until at least 9:30 AM.  And any plan I had to visit Nuremberg, I decided not to risk it.  

I took the U2 to Frankfurter Ring.  I forgot that if I wanted to go to Europa-Industriepark in the north of Munich, I would need to take the U2 to Am Hart to get a bus.  I walked the rest of the way to Am Hart.  There were two free busses to the former Walmart, now called V-Markt, and the other to the former SUMA megastore now called "real,-".  I knew of these superstores from the days when I lived in Munich, and this is where I could buy things for much cheaper than closer to my apartment.  In V Markt I bought some chocolates and a one liter beer stein.  It was kind of generic without any particular beer brand like Spaten, Hofbräu, Hacker-Pschorr, Löwenbräu and Augustiner.

In January 2002 there was no direct MVV bus connection between either the V-Markt nor real,- stores.  Walking seems to be the only option, other than to take a bus to either Am Hart or to Kieferngarten, then board a bus to the other store, which can take time.  Sometime when the V-Markt was sold, the dedicated shuttle bus was discontinued, and more or less is served by MVV bus lines 140 and 141.  Real,- has since been sold and operates under a different company.  Bus line 178 goes from Real,- to the Kieferngarten U Bahn station, likewise to Frankfurter Ring and Petuelring.  The shuttles I remember from 1997 and 1998 have become essentially obsolete.

About 12 PM I took the U-Bahn back to Hauptbahnhof and Schillerstraße.  It was getting too cold and too snowy to do much for a while, so I took a nap for an hour or so.  It did not last too long.  About 2:30 PM I left for the Saturn Hansa electronics and music store, located about Theresienwiese and Oktoberfest site.  There I bought some music CDs, including from Herbert Grönemeyer, Edoardo Bennato including guitar chords that came with the CD, and a single from Gorillaz.  I dropped those off at the hotel at 3:30 PM and went on to BMW Lenbachplatz.  It is located near Karlsplatz, Maximiliansplatz and the Alter Botanischer Garten.  One thing of the most interest at the BMW dealership, was the brand new "E65", otherwise known as the 7-series.  More about it in "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_7_Series_(E65)"

I did not go to the BMW museum at Olympiapark in January 2002, because I had already visited it in July 1997 and again in July 1998.   After Lenbachplatz, it was time to find some way to cross the Isar and make a circuit ending at Sendlinger Tor.  I took the tram line 19 stopped at the Nationaltheater to see the city`s opera house.  Then I took another tram 19 across to Max-Monument to see the Maximilenium which is the Bavarian State Senate building across the Isar (the destination of a certain letter that Aloysius was supposed to deliver but instead he ended up drinking several liters of Hofbräu Original), and then Max Weber Platz and changed to a line 16 going to Arabellastraße.  I boarded another one going to Romanplatz in the northwest.  The tram went along Wiener Straße which has some nice neighborhood buildings.  It crossed the Ludwigsbrücke back into downtown and on to Sendlinger Tor.

About 4:30 PM it was getting dark so I could not spend too long.  Eventually I managed to get the Sendlinger Tor stop, walked to Marienplatz, turned right, and after the toy museum, I walked down Parkassenstraße, then Pfisterstraße, and what should I see but the original Hofbräuhaus.  It looked interesting but I thought at the time it seemed a bit touristy.  I instead went somewhere back on the Kaufingerstraße.  

I would have to pack up my belongings, so that I would have to decide what to throw away so that I would not be charged with excess baggage.  I needed just one more change of clothes for the journey home the next day.

Next and final story:  Surprise, you`ve been overbooked

Hope you will join in tomorrow’s adventure!

Ich hoffe, Ihr nehmt am morgigen Abenteuer teil!

Remélem, csatlakozol a holnapi kalandhoz!