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European Delivery, April 2002

April 27th

On Saturday, we slept in a bit and then headed over to the Deutsche museum. I had been hearing so much about this museum, about how it was like the German version of the Smithsonian, how it took days to go through all of the exhibits, and very importantly, how they had a crash test car from BMW that was an E12 5 series (I have a 1981 528i E12 5 series). I wanted to take alot of pictures of the crash test car and was really looking forward to all of their exhibits. But, sorry to be a complainer, but I wasn't impressed at all by the museum. Its old. It was under alot of construction. And most importantly, the automotive exhibit was partially under construction for 6 months! And the E12 crash test car was part of this so I couldn't see it! After trudging through the exhibits scowling, we got through almost the whole museum in a matter of 2 hours. This was due largely to the fact that some exhibits had no English descriptions at all (many did however, so it wasn't that bad). And also I noticed that many of the exhibits that were interactive, i.e. they had buttons you would push and stuff would move or do things, didn't work! I hate that. So we were finished at the museum at around 1PM. We took the train down to Marienplatz (the historical center) again and had some coffee at a cafe. But we were OD'd on Munich and ready to go home. We ended up at the hotel early and my wife took another nap. I went out and took alot of photos of cars in the parking lots around the hotel. That was where I shot the majority of the photos of cars during the trip. It just goes to show how much car watching there is in Germany because in that short time walking around, I saw 3 Audi S8's, an Audi RS4, a Ferrari 550 Maranello, a Lancia Integralle, an E30 Touring, and an Opel Speedster, among others. This may be due in part to the splendid accomodations we had at the Munich Sheraton that I would highly recommend. Click on the link below for a directory listing with all of the car pictures I took. They're definitely worth checking out, there's some cool stuff in there.

April 28th

On Sunday, we woke up bright and early to head to the airport. We were ready to get back to the good old US of A. We decided to save money over a taxi and took the train to the airport. It wasn't that bad. But as a final parting shot for our trip to Germany, I realized on the way to the airport that I had lost my $150 Oakley e-wire sunglasses. That pissed me off royally.
Checking in our bags was painless though and we had time to go to Burger King for some food. It turns out they don't have breakfast at Burger Kings in Germany, at least not this one we went to in the airport. Oh well. We even had time to visit the duty free shop in the terminal. Definitely go there on your way back to the US if you want cheap booze. Its disgusting how much cheaper stuff is without the US taxes.
We boarded our plane and settled into the comfortable business class seats for the 9 hour flight back to Chicago!

Wow, you actually read this far?! O.K., here's the car pics link.

Car Pics

April 27th
	On Saturday, we slept in a bit and then headed over to the Deutsche museum. I had been hearing so much about this museum, about how it was like the German version of the Smithsonian, how it took days to go through all of the exhibits, and very importantly, how they had a crash test car from BMW that was an E12 5 series (I have a 1981 528i E12 5 series). I wanted to take alot of pictures of the crash test car and was really looking forward to all of their exhibits. But, sorry to be a complainer, but I wasn't impressed at all by the museum. Its old. It was under alot of construction. And most importantly, the automotive exhibit was partially under construction for 6 months! And the E12 crash test car was part of this so I couldn't see it! After trudging through the exhibits scowling, we got through almost the whole museum in a matter of 2 hours. This was due largely to the fact that some exhibits had no English descriptions at all (many did however, so it wasn't that bad). And also I noticed that many of the exhibits that were interactive, i.e. they had buttons you would push and stuff would move or do things, didn't work! I hate that. So we were finished at the museum at around 1PM. We took the train down to Marienplatz (the historical center) again and had some coffee at a cafe. But we were OD'd on Munich and ready to go home. We ended up at the hotel early and my wife took another nap. I went out and took alot of photos of cars in the parking lots around the hotel. That was where I shot the majority of the photos of cars during the trip. It just goes to show how much car watching there is in Germany because in that short time walking around, I saw 3 Audi S8's, an Audi RS4, a Ferrari 550 Maranello, a Lancia Integralle, an E30 Touring, and an Opel Speedster, among others. This may be due in part to the splendid accomodations we had at the Munich Sheraton that I would highly recommend. Click on the link below for a directory listing with all of the car pictures I took. They're definitely worth checking out, there's some cool stuff in there.
April 28th
	On Sunday, we woke up bright and early to head to the airport. We were ready to get back to the good old US of A. We decided to save money over a taxi and took the train to the airport. It wasn't that bad. But as a final parting shot for our trip to Germany, I realized on the way to the airport that I had lost my $150 Oakley e-wire sunglasses. That pissed me off royally. Checking in our bags was painless though and we had time to go to Burger King for some food. It turns out they don't have breakfast at Burger Kings in Germany, at least not this one we went to in the airport. Oh well. We even had time to visit the duty free shop in the terminal. Definitely go there on your way back to the US if you want cheap booze. Its disgusting how much cheaper stuff is without the US taxes. We boarded our plane and settled into the comfortable business class seats for the 9 hour flight back to Chicago!