München

Strong beer festival at Paulaner am Nockherberg
1 March 2008

Every year during the fasting time all the beer breweries in Munich celebrate the Starkbier festival. During the short period, they brew the Starkbier (Strong beer), a type of dark beer with more than 7% alcohol. Among them, Paulaner brewery is the most popular with their Starkbier "Salvator". We went to the Paulaner am Nockherberg restaurant on 5. During the festival, there is €1 entrance fee just to enter the beer garden area. The situation is similar like oktoberfest, many people are wearing dirndl or lederhose. 1 Maß beer(1 liter mug) costs € 7,95 and the food price are quite acceptable. I ordered a Steckerlfisch(grilled Mackerel), which cost me € 9. The other food also cost from € 8 - € 13, just like normally. But be careful with the Starkbier. Because of the higher alcohol percentage, many people told me not to drink more than 2 mugs.

Today went to the Museum Lichtspiele cinema in Munich. This is a small cinema near Isar Tor, in which the film "Lust, Caution" in the original version in mandarin with german subtitle is still played.

The cinema is small and unique. The movie was played in "Kino 2", a relatively small cinema hall with about 60 seats. It has unique decoration with hanging lamps with a normal bulbs and also several greek stile statues. Very unusual for a cinema.

Well... the movie was very great and the cinema was good enough, probably because it is not an action movie.

Hier sind die Liste mit Anzahl von offiziell angemeldeten Süd-Ost Asiaten, die ich in KVR München gesehen habe:

• Indonesien: 403
• Malaysia: 98
• Singapur: 126
• Thailand: 1465
• Vietnam: 3507

Also, die Zahlen sind aus der Stand bis zum 31 Januar 2006.

Auf dem Aushang in KVR stehen Anzahl von allen Staaten, aber ich habe nicht alles gemerkt.

Also... heute bin ich zum Konzert von den Juliette and the Licks in dem Georg Elser Hallen gegangen.

Frag mich nicht wer die sind... sogar nach dem Konzert kenne ich ihre Lieder noch gar nicht...

Tja... aber es ist OK... Dirk und Vodj wieder zu treffen war ja sowieso der Hauptgrund. Dass das Konzert besser war als ich dachte, ist der Abend ganz gut gelaufen.

Walking to the top of the olympia hill...
Photos using fish eye lens courtesy of Roy

After Nymphenburg castle, we went directly to Olympia Park. After snow fall, many people will go to olympia park, mostly to play sledge on the olympia hill and to watch the amazing winter the panorama from the top of the hill. Well.. now I proof it to be true. The view of the whole area was very beautiful. Everything was covered with snow and the lake was frozen too. It was a sunny day, we could see the city and even the Allianz Arena from there. And as expected, there were many people playing sledge. It looks fun... I think I'll buy one someday.