White Munich

My last weekend was spent visiting some friends in Munich and although it was my second time in Munich, there was still lots to see and do. I really appreciate Yucheng for accomodating me and going out of his way to make my stay really wonderful. Thanks dude. Thanks Yi Bin, Kelvin and Deen for taking time off their busy studying schedule to hang out with me too. Munich was beautiful, covered in snow, making it almost feel like Christmas skipped 11 months. We really enjoyed our Saturday out in the snow; failed at making snow men, harmless snow ball fights and rolling down slopes. If only we had sleighs. Yeah, this was apart from visiting Residenze (Duke's home), the Deutsches Museum and shopping.







The view from Peterskirche (St. Peter's Church). In the background stands Frauenkirche with her two majestic bell towers visible from all over Munich city. By the way, I almost got frost bites up there!






The Deutsches Museum is the a must-see for any visitor to Munich, especially the technical dudes. It was my boss Dr Scherf who urged me to visit this place and it was definitely worth while. Live-size displays and planes, engines, machinery and many models to view. It will take a week to cover every single display but you will definitely be bewildered by these engineering mavels and there's so much to learn. If you only have 2 hours, you cannot miss the mining section which consists of 400m of tunnels dug beneath the museum to replicate actual mines with machinery inside. Awesome!

We met up with Gerri and her boyfriend who came down from London to visit me and ski! Well, they did much more skiing than hanging out with me haha. Here, we had drinks and supper at Augustinerbrau keller, a typical Bavarian beer hall. Lots of shouting going on in the background.