You can't see it but it is SNOWING. Landscape is quite a bit different from Sevilla!
I always have to find some Buskers in our travels. Munich has much hipper versions. Cello and Kora, which is a West African Guitar. Pretty cool sounding duo here. They bugged out when it started to snow!
This was the strangest thing. A statue of Orlando di Lasso, who was a Flemish composer from the 1600s if my Music History memory serves me (spent most of my college Music History lectures snoozing). Anyway, attached to this statue was an ongoing tribute to Michael Jackson. When we first came upon this I thought it would be Prince. But no! WEIRD! We later found out from our guided tour that Michael Jackson used to stay at the hotel across the street. Rooms were $1500 a night. We would have stayed there but our hotel was a bit cheaper!
This is funny...Tobi's Maiden name is Christ...what can I say? This is where I found her while I was away watching the street musicians. You can see four Christ's in this picture. Kinda cool. And YES, she did buy some bling in there, which is not your typical Tobi!
Giant Metal dude....what more can I add?
We toured a toy museum. Yes, that was my find! Tobi was a good egg and went along. I made some new friends.
I can relate to this little guy in the Toy Museum.
Hans Zimmer Concert
Well, we made it to the Hans Zimmer concert, which was at the sight of the 1972 Olympic games, which was in the MIDDLE OF NO WHERE! Great show, huge audience of both young and old. Hans had a large core group along with an orchestra and choir. VERY loud and VERY entertaining. It did my heart good to see folks getting into Movie Music with a full orchestra and choir! There is hope for the future of music. Also great that a slightly overweight, balding, middle-aged composer can be a rock star! The concert was over three-hours with an intermission.
Lion King complete with three featured vocalists!
More Hans. We were in the 20th row. Not too bad. A little loud though for my aging post rock-and-roll ears.
We took a trolly, at bus, and also walked up to the Olympic park. It was snowing a bit. When we got out of the concert, which was over three hours, it was a full blown blizzard and dark. We did find our way back thanks to Tobi and asking folks standing on the street where we should go. Just our luck that the trolly tracks were being repaired by our stop so naturally we had to also take a bus and then switch back to the trolly. All the people we asked were very helpful! We made it back to the hotel at midnight.
Tobi at the Olympic park. The concert hall is at the back. Very cool venue and the concert was packed! It was also nice that Tobi could translate for me at the concert. Hans spoke German as he was originally from Frankfurt. Although he has lived in LA almost 30 years!
Munich Day 3 and still snowing! We went on a free tour (3 hours) today. Our guide was from England and VERY sarcastic. I loved him immediately! Here is the Polka band at the Hofbrauhaus where drinking beer is a serious sport! Too bad Tobi and I don't like beer. It would have been interesting to try the beer here. The guide had some GREAT stories about the Octoberfest here...WOW!
This is the Hofbrauhaus again. Our guide pointed out that the blue and yellow triangle patterns directly above the hanging lights were at one time Nazi Swastikas. I did not realize that the Nazi movement started here. Because this was an historical site they could not remove the Swastikas so they had to paint a new design over them. We also learned that if you give the Nazi salute in Germany you face a large fine and jail time!
Tobi posted a great video (on FaceBook) of these guys surfing in the river in the English Garten in Munich. It was 34 and quite cold today. But they were still there.
This is the Chinese Tower Beer Garden, in the English Garten, in Munich Germany! Figure that one out!
On to London!!!
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