Deutches Museum and off to Amsterdam
GERMANY | Sunday, 8 July 2007 | Views [349]
Spent the morning at the Deutsches Museum, the world's largest mueseum of science and technology. It was pretty awesome, even if only half of the exhibits had English translations. The aeronautical wing was amazing and I even sat through a Planetarium show in German. Didn't understand a word of it but the stars were aweseome nonetheless. Also had a really cool math wing with all sorts of puzzles and brain teasers (spent close to an hour on those...) and a huge musical instrument collection wtih all of the physics of each instrument family. Oh, AND they had a cryptography special collection including an original ENIGMA machine from WWII!!! I did a huge project on the Enigma for my cryptography class in college and know all about how they work and how the British broke the code (thanks to Alan Turing) but had never seen a real one. It was probably the defining moment of my day :-)
Started raining right about then so I ducked into a movie theater and they happened to be playing an English film at the time so I sat through Die Hard 4.0. No, I'm not proud of this fact but with my hostel ID I got in for half-price and it saved me from melting in the rain.
Now I'm back at the hostel to pack up my things before I head to the National Theater. The Munich Opera is doing an outdoor concert (if the rain doesn't return) starting at 7:30 and although I can only hear the first act or so, I still want to go because Placido Domingo and Rene Pape are singing. Then I'm off to the train station for my overnight train to Amsterdam where I may meet up with Steve Westdahl from Emory as he is in town doing some theater festival. We'll see.
Anyway, wanted to say hi and let you know that I've got one city down, four more to go and I'm doing just fine. This traveling alone thing isn't all that bad :-)
Tags: germany, munich, rain storms
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