Riding through Bavaria I got a bright idea for a new business in SA. Weeell...... copying the Germans truth be told, but I still think it could be the next big thing :biggrin: It's never been tried in SA.
I saw several flower farms with neat rows of all kinds of colourful flowers. Now here's the brilliant part, where I plan on making a killing in SA. They are SELF-SERVE, you walk around, cut what you want yourself, then go to the mounted pox in the corner of the field and put the money in. There's a price list on the box, so it's easy to figure out how much you owe.
Waddya think, all you business boffins? I'm looking for a partner. It's revolutionary, I'm sure I'll make a million :evil6:
I'll keep my day job until it really catches on though.
My plan in Munich this time was: go to a beer garden, eat some bratwurst and sauerkraut with giant pretzels, go to the Deutsches Museum's vehicle and aviation sections to see the excellent displays and the 1937 Auto Union specifically, go to BMW Welt, go to a beer garden, get a leg over, and go to a beer garden ;D
Day of arrival - unpack, shower, off to the beer garden - CHECK
My friend's place is close to the Isar river which runs through Munich from north to south. On sunny days it's a popular spot for sunbathers and brave swimmers, as the water is cold. And most of the sunbathers are nude. We cossed it on a high bridge, walking to the beer garden:
Munich is an excellent place to be in summer, there are bicycle trails all over the place, you can ride all day and never set a wheel on a busy street. You can see some of these along the Isar above.
In the beer garden. One of my favourite places in the world :biggrin:
And this is why:
Marienplatz is the central square in the old part of the city. It's a very beautiful and fun area. with lots of excellent restaurants and things to see.
We climbed something like 22 storeys to the top of the St. Peter's church up a narrow, winding staircase. Not the place to be if you're claustrophobic. It was a stunning day, a cold front had just blown through and cleared the air. You could see all of Munich laid out below like a 3D map, and 80 k's to the south, the Alps.
While we were oohing and aahing at the view, the bells right below us started ringing. I've been close to big old bells like that several times when they ring, and the sound makes me twitch and my hair stand up. Must be the tuning fork in my head. Your whole body vibrates and a shiver runs through you like an electric current. It makes you FEEL a different dimension. One not of this world.
My friend said that the tower was swaying from the heavy bells swinging back and forth a few metres below us, but mister know-it-all here just knew it was the gusty wind. Until she told me to stand with my back against the wall
The 1000 year or so old tower WAS swaying. Oh well. I figured it had done that for centuries, and if it fell over that day with my arse on top of it, my number was up and there's sweet fanny fuckall I could do about it.
All in all, a very moving experience.
A few days later I was there when it rained, accompanied by a lovely young fraulein. Once again my new little Nikon amazed me with the incrdeible low-light photos it takes:
Old Munich is a beautiful city:
But I like the newer part even better :biggrin:
What a city.
On another sunny day I went to the English Garden. It's a huge park in the middle of the city, like Central Park in New York or Hyde Park in London. Maybe even Joubert Park in Joeys. Except this one has several beer gardens, and people swim and sunbathe in various states of undress. A nice little stream runs through it, in some spots you can surely white water raft on it and I saw several people floating by so fast that I almost ran for higher ground.
But you have to be careful when taking dear old mum-in-law on a family outing, in some parts you see
naked people. Now I'm not a prude or easily rattled. Au contraire. I was very appreciative of some of the more genetically gifted young ladies working on their tans. But some skinny, wrinkled oke wandering by talking on a cell phone and waving his wedding tackle around wasn't high on my list of things to see in Munich. I wondered what the many muslim tourists, specifically many women in headscarves, made of it.
I had to go to the beer garden at the Chinese Tower to stabilise my pulse rate, hadn't had a skrik like that in a while.
CHECK
There I saw a sight that kept my pulse at about 190, but for the right reason this time :biggrin:
While I'm on the subject, allow me to say a few words about female beauty in Munich. I have been to many weird and wonderful places in my life. Obviously Munich, London, New York, Tel Aviv, Los Angeles, Brakpan, Cape Town, Reykjavik, Mogadishu, New Orleans, Benoni, Dubai, Chicago, Telluride and Arnhem.
And Solitaire, too.
But I've NEVER seen so many stunning women in one place anywhere else than in Munich. I didn't know that blonde and brunette beauty came in so many different shapes and sizes. Well I DID, but I'd forgotten cause I hadn't been there in four years. And I don't mean the painted ladies that count as beautiful in some other places I won't mention. Just healthy-looking, fit women with stunning features and no make up. I could only stare.
OK, where was I?
At even MORE beauty, this time man-made :biggrin:
While we're on the subject of not-so-nice visuals, I almost gave up drinking beer when I saw this in an otherwise excellent beer garden:
(Stare at the back of the chair for twenty seconds)
Come to think of it, the waitress who looked like a real-life Snow White rolled here eyes at me a time or two, maybe it wasn't such a good beer garden after all :laughing4:
OK now for beauty again :biggrin: