Friday, May 6, 2011

SEP Munich, Germany – Marienplatz! – Day 1 – 05.05.2011

We woke up with the correct timing today. My previous bad “sleep late wake up early” policy has somehow become my current “sleep early wake up even earlier” habit! Jetlag helps, ha!

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From the window of our room, the building under construction is just a part of TUM!

Buffet-style breakfast is provided (not bad huh?). For the first day we somehow agreed on eat all we can during the breakfast since we have paid for it!

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My first round.

We went to school for some admin stuffs after that and we are going to meet Mr Grassl in the afternoon. He asked us to meet at a famous place in Munich called the Marienplatz. Well he said it’s famous but we have no idea about it at all. So after google-mapping we walked there, about 1 hour due to the followings on our way!

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A huge grass patch with small flowers all around, people are just sitting there and having picnic!

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Museum of sculpture. Tempted to go in!

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Another museum in the middle of a roundabout!

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One more museum there, right opposite the museum of sculpture!

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Dandelion. The size is quite big. They are everywhere too!

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The obelisk. Mr Grassl says it's some monument from Egypt.

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The flowers around the obelisk.

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Guess what? It's a bank!

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There are really a lot of flowers around Munich. Here's another!

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Strawberries at a stall. Really fresh and tempting!

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Not really sure what this building is…

And finally…

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The Marienplatz! (Left view)

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The Marienplatz! (Right view)

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The right wing of Marienplatz.

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Road post!

Mr Grassl says that normally around 1200hrs there will be full of tourists there, because of something will happen during that time!

We are leaving Marienplatz right away though, to view our accommodation. A place to live is always important, so we shall just come back the other day!

I must mention that Mr Grassl is very tall with long legs, and thus walk very fast! He likes walking we guessed, and we had some nice exercises following him.

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An ancient building near Isartor, looks new anyway. Mr Grassl says that this building was built to signify something related (I forgot!) to the Isar river, but now it's a museum.

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Random shot of street on our way.

We visited two apartments and had to decide tomorrow. The whole visiting finished around 2000hrs, but again the sky was still bright! Many shops had already closed and we had to eat some simple dinner at a pastry shop. The day was getting darker yet we were sitting outside the shop. Wind blew and we were just shivering… Haha, what a weird experience!

Ok, gotta decide something important tomorrow!

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