After one last night in my miniature hotel room in Stuttgart, I found myself being taken south to Munich. First stop, Munich's flughafen where, in one area, three classic aircraft are on permanent display. While I was there, the three-engine Fokker passenger plane -- which looks oddly like a low-wing version of the Ford Tri-motor, and sat near a Constellation and a DC-3 -- had a Mercedes-Benz 170D of the same vintage parked close by. This was one of the first passenger cars with a Diesel engine...
Then we were on the road, first a stretch of autobahn -- always a fun experience! -- and then onto secondary roads that led into Alpine foothills. The small towns of Bavaria are charming, to say the least; this was either St Quirin or Tegernsee; don't remember which...
Sadly, I had little time to savor the beauty of the Alps except through a car window. It might be just as well that our stops were brief; I'd still be there if the decision had been left to me...
Too soon, we had to make our way into Munich and the hotel, which is a converted post office adjacent to the main railway station...
No tiny rooms here! The Sofitel is resolutely modern inside; even a bit kinky, with the big-enough-for-two bathtub separated from the bed by a large window. Another thing that made me wiah I hadn't been alone there...
Finally, and apropos of nothing at all, I have to say the Bavarian Red Cross has the coolest ambulance I've ever seen!
There was ample time for some out-and-about in Munich, but that must wait until the next entry....
23 hours ago
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We just stayed in a Sofitel property in Papeete. The hotel was nice enough, but we were not impressed by the staff. At all.
The staff was fine at this one, fin. Especially the concierge; she pointed me right to the best toy store in the city!
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