München Germany

I finally made it, I got to go to Munich and see my favorite soccer clubs stadium, and it was amazing! The stadium is huge, and in fact can hold up to around 71,000 fans. Depending on the seat you get it could cost you anywhere from 150 euros to 300,000 euros a season. Trust me though, even though the 150 euros seems cheap enough there is a very long list of people all trying to get these cheap tickets. The chances of getting them would be like winning the lottery. Allianz Arena is home to FC Bayern München and fun fact, each season the players on the team get a brand new Audi that they have to drive around for the season, when the season is over and the new one starts guess what, they get another brand new Audi. I only assume they end up returning the previous Audi but either way that isn't even part of the contracted amount of money they get. Also, currently the stadium has three different light options for the outside of the stadium, they can light it up Red (usually done when Bayern has an away or home game), white (usually when the Germany national team plays) or blue (when the other less known Munich soccer team plays). If you haven't ever seen pictures of the Allianz Arena when it is lit up you should, I would post a picture of it here but unfortunately when we went to the stadium it was not late enough in the day for the stadium to be lit up. This is a model version of the stadium that was in the Museum however.

There are so many more facts about the stadium I could ramble on about but for the most part what you need to know is, the stadium cost about 340 million Euros to build.... which is about 480 million dollars.... which was built back in 2005 so the numbers may be a bit under what they should be for today.

 

Well now that I have pretty much talked your arm off about the stadium, let me talk to you about the rest of Munich. The BMW museum is pretty amazing, it of course has a lot of cars and bikes that BMW made and it also has a small section of Rolls Royce cars.

One of my favorite cars at the BMW museum though, would have to be this car.

The BMW car that was used in the James Bond movie, Goldeneye! Now quick side note this was the car model that was used, not this exact car I am standing by. But still pretty awesome. Now next to this BMW Museum is the Olympic park, however there was a bike race going on so we were unable to get very close to the stadiums used.

Now, no trip to Munich would be complete without seeing the main city, and man is it a pretty city. One of the biggest churches I have ever seen sits in the main city.

Along with this church there is also a lot of other government buildings and churches. But if you ever end up making it to Munich there is one place that you absolutely must go. And that is the Hofbräuhaus. It is one of the biggest beer gardens in Munich and is pretty famous or its atmosphere. Not only is the 1 liter of beer good, but of course the food is as well. If I had more time in Munich I would have defiantly tried to drink more because there is so many different types of beer that they have.

 Well I think that is all I have for now, oh one quick side note! The 1 liter of beer that they have at HB, it has about 7% alcohol in it so in American beer you would have to drink about 2 liters... but trust me if there is one thing I have learned while in Germany. It is that beer in America has a while to go before it reaches German level.

Till next time,
Jonathan Stahl