Empress : Kaiserin: Neues Rathaus - Glockenspiel

Donnerstag, Juni 01, 2006

Neues Rathaus - Glockenspiel - Einkaufen

I went shopping today!! Left the hostel after 10am in an effort to get to the Neues Rathaus before 11am. Light drizzle when I got there, but an umbrella was still essential. Stood in front of the Neues Rathaus, neck strained, to watch the figures at the tower dances to the out-of-tune chimes melody at after 11am. Apparently the mechanism wasn't very punctual, ahaha. The figurines only moves three times a day. 11, 12 and 16 hrs. Now that I've finally seen this "famous landmark", I don't see what's so special about it. Really. It only adds to my neck ache. Tja.

No luck on better maps for the whole of Germany. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places. Well, I've three more weeks to look and hunt anyway, no panic yet. I shopped for CDs, yay! A lot of classical cds UNAVAILABLE BACK HOME. I was literally drooling, lol... Found the COMPLETE collection (90+ volumes) of the Liszt recordings by Leslie Howard! Was so tempting to grab all, but the prices of the cds are twice the prices back home. Ya. If I can't find cheaper prices in Munich, I've made up my mind to grab them only in my last week here. But still I bought a recording of Liszt's orchestral songs and his Missa Solemnis (coz it was cheap, haha). I SAW THE RECORDING OF HIS ONE SOLE OPERA!!!!!!!!!!!! Alas, the cd booklet looks worn and old and the store doesn't have another new copy. And it cost close to 40 Euros. So I tragically put it back in the rack. Tja. Then started looking for scores along Sonnenstrasse – but no luck. Wasn't able to find Proko's Barenreiter Bach Suites yet. Or my Liszt Lieder. Hmm, I am really looking at the wrong places.