Dinner in the sky

Training day 2, but BEFORE training, let's visit another Wonka site...

Sunrise in Munich as I leave the

Underground station

Along the street, almost there...

The gates to the 'Wonka factory'

You can also walk around for the 'inside'

(Wonka's eye!) view

Nearby tower :)

Is it Wonka?

No, it's me, on the same spot

just over 40 years later.

Some of the underground stations are

quirky and colourful

I arrive for the start of training 2 minutes late, but I'm not the last. The training goes reasonably well, but the complexity of 'layered' processes like Change Evaluation and Service Validation & Testing take some absorbing. We are still on schedule, and the delegates take paper 2 away to study and help them revise.

Meanwhile I have a dinner date

...with the Olympic Tower

At the top things are rather murky

Very atmospheric but I wonder if

the dinner view will be up to much

semi-rama including BMW HQ building

semi-rama-lama-ding-dong

Heading back down a level to Restaurant 181

(it is 181 metres above the ground)

I spot this cheerful chappie, and an

article about Tokio Hotel.

There is a music exhibition here.

View behind me showing curved walls

First course - salmon

Delicious

Here is the menu

At this point I take various videos and a

home-made time-lapse recording

(one image every minute)

to demonstrate the rotation of the

restaurant (once every 49 minutes).

That will be added later

(when I've worked it out).

Coffee - and more desert.

To answer your question I had

one from the top and two from the bottom,

in the Countdown style

It's my cheerful mug!

From 1972 when we were

first in Germany. Shows

a picture of the very tower

I'm atop. Hurrah.

After the fabulous meal I pop

back up to the music displays

Elton's mirrored piano.

Yes I play a few notes when

no-one's near :)

Marc Bolan's boots

Things are much clearer now - and very cold!

Goodbye Tower - see you Saturday

for my roof-tour/abseil of the Stadium

Browsing the guidebook on the metro back to the hotel, I notice the Bavarian Observatory which is quite nearby and open late (8pm-10pm) - which is rather sensible as most of the work is nocturnal, so I head on over. Sadly it's a bit late, and their flagship computer-controlled reflecting telescope isn't working. That's what you call an INCIDENT. The older, manual machines are working (of course) so I get a good look at Jupiter and 3 moons, which is great.

Plus more postcards :)

All in all a wonderful day.