Visit to Munich, Germany - 22 - 27 September 2015

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I travelled by train from Stuttgart to meet up with friends Tina and Kim at Freising, a little out of Munich.



Above - At the Deutsches Museum at Munich - the largest museum for science and technology in the world. A very impressive place. I spent two days visiting the museum.



Above - Early electric motors



Above - An A4 rocket (also known as the V2) - this one fitted into a stairwell.



Above - Original Enigma machines - 3 rotor and 4 rotor.



Above - One of Conrad Zuse's early computers from the 1930's. Note the data was punched onto 35 mm film.



Above - Street performers - Munich



Above - The first rocket plane and jet plane





Above - The mining exhibit was amazing - it was deep underground and it felt like you were in an actual mine.







Above - an old machine shop





Above - Röentgen's X Ray apparatus



Above - Hertz was using this apparatus when he discovered and investigated radio waves



Above - Galileo's lab



Above - The Red Barron used to fly one of these Fokker Triplanes.



Above - Blériot monoplane



Above - Living statue - Munich. The cup never ran out of water!







Above - Living Statue





Above - Some of the bike parking at the banhof at Freising



Above - Tina and Kim's very cute young daughter - Lille





Above - Day 3 in Munich - I went for a walk in the Bavarian Alps. I was supposed to climb this mountain - but I didn't have a good map (until I found this on on a sign) - and I ended up going around it.







Above - On day 4, we go on a ride along the Altmühltal



Above - We climb up to the top of a small crag - Tina, Lille, Kim



Above - The cycleway





Above - Kim and Lille







Above - at lunch



Above - At the fossil museum at Solnhofen





Above - Amazing detail in the fossils







Above - This is amazing - a fish in the act of catching an archaeopteryx



Above - pterodactyl



Above - archaeopteryx (the museum has 3 of the 11 archaeopteryx fossils fund so far)



Above - On the ride back - we stop at some roadwork - perhaps a good place to find some fossils? It was - we found a few (but no archaeopteryx)



Above - We stop of at this crag - it was very close to the cycleway!



Above - Kim leads up this climb



Above - Now it is Tina's turn



Above - Lille watches



Above - Riding back to the car

Next day I travelled by bus to Vienna

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