Of sportive destinations in Munich

On my last day in Munich, I took a day ticket for the whole public transport network (which includes getting to the airport) and so made the most of it by venturing out of the town centre.

My first stop was the Allianz Arena. Remember my visit into the miniature at the Munich airport?

where to get off

We can see the stadium upon coming out of the metro station
(the shadow on the top left is the fence of the overhead crossing which I was on)

I was there! lol

There wasn't anything special about the interior of the stadium; what's more, everything was closed and it was very cold, so I didn't spend much time there.

It was a lot colder there (and at the Olympic Park that I went to later) than in Munich itself, probably because these places were north of the town. In the town the snow had melted, but as you can see, the ground's still white around the stadium...

inside the metro leaving from Fröttmaning; it was empty because this was the first stop (only for certain times, usually the metro goes further than this station)

Before I left for Munich, Dinie told me that the metro there was great and that I'd love it. Taking the metro (S-Bahn) from the airport to town, I was wondering what was so great about it... It turns out that the U-Bahns (metros in the Munich centre) are newer than the S-Bahns (trains passing through the centre of Munich, but going further out of town, like the RER in Paris).

As I mentioned, my second stop was the Olympic Park (Olympiapark) Here's a map:


The guys I met the night before had said that they were staying there...probably in one of the blocks on the left. But they were working that day, so I suppose they weren't there anyway. I didn't walk all over the park since it was so cold, just went around taking a few pictures. It was nothing really special anyway...maybe because it was winter?

Olympic Tower
We can pay to go up, but the last trip up was at 11:30am and it was already about noon when I arrived there.

the swimming pool; it was wonderfully warm inside!!

The restaurant and souvenir shop on its left

The restaurant has Augustiner!! (haha Augustiner is gonna be my bière de référence from now on :P )

the SoccaFive arena

I think it's rented out because:


Inside:



The BMW museum is just nearby, but I didn't go there. I wasn't planning to go there anyway, and what's more, the guys from the beer tour told me that it was just like a huge car showroom.



I don't know which one exactly is the museum...probably the big one and not the tower.

And actually WW was really lucky I went to the Olympic Park...I wasn't planning to go there at the beginning, and that was where I found the Bayern Munich souvenir shop! I was initially going to visit the Allianz Arena and then the Nuremberg Palace (without going in, just looking and taking pics from the outside) But those guys (again lol) told me that the Olympic Park was a good place to visit, and when I asked the guy at my hostel reception whether the palace was close to the tram station (we have to take the tram there, not the metro), he said that the palace was nothing special anyway. Which was why I finally decided to pass on the palace and go to the Olympic Park instead.

That's all for my touristic pics...though I believe I will be doing another post about Munich, with all the "odds and ends" photos.