After a lovely rail replacement bus ride through the solar panel filled country side we arrive in Munich. Catching trains and buses to get to our destinations was a great way to see the countries, I am glad we did it this way and didn’t catch planes unless we needed to.
Apparently the only incentives to do this is a 1% interest loan from the government and that the energy companies will buy your excess power for half the price you could buy it from them. And they weren’t just on hay sheds – businesses, shopping centres, schools and churches had them as well.
Anyway, we arrived in Munich to a massive crowd who gathered to welcome their football team Bayern Munich home after they had won the UEFA Champions League Final and the German Cup. Bayern only lost the UEFA Champions League Final. Apparently that’s a pretty good performance. It was a long weekend while we were there, and the city was having a huge party!
Not far from Munich is Dachau concentration camp. This camp served as a model for all later concentration camps and as a "school of violence" for the SS men under whose command it stood. It was a confronting place to visit. It is very important that no one ever forgets the atrocities that occurred in world war two.
Also in Munich is BMW headquarters and museum which covers all thing BMW.
It was interesting to see how BMW started out making aeroplane engines, then moved onto motorbikes and finally cars. There was rooms of engines with descriptions of the engineering improvements made between the models over the years. You could also listen to recordings of the engines being put through their paces. There were quite a few German men very engrossed and have some deep discussions (about the engines I assume) in these rooms.