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Taking a folding bike on the S-Bahn - I'm going to start cycling part of my route to Hallbergmoos and will be using a Brompton folding bike - plan is to take the s-bahn part of the way. The S-bahn rules say: - no bikes in the rush hour (the time I will be travelling) - bikes need their own ticket The Brompton will be folded while on the train and sheathed in its protective cover - total size/footprint is considerably less than the average 25kg suitcase that is often to be found on the… read more…

Rugby in the English Garden, Saturday 3.May.2008 - On Saturday 3rd of May at 15:00 the Munich Studentenstadt 1st Rugby team are playing Frankfurt 1860 in a Bundesleague match at their ground in the English Garden. At 17:00 the second team are playing a friendly against a team from Hungerford RFC, England. There will a bar and grill from approx. 14:00 and all are welcome.… read more…

 Munich events:   (more: events next three months and how to add an event)

Fri 09.May
Friday beer garden  Every Friday, location varies week to week
 
Goodnight Desdemona, award-winning play in English  BeMe Theatre...
 
Quicksilver/Roxy sample sale  8-9.May.2008 @ Frankfurter Ring 16...
 
Rowing World Cup 2008  Regatta in Oberschleißheim, 9-11.May.200...
 
Sneak preview movie at Cinema Muenchen  Sneak preview movie at C...
Sat 10.May
Children's theater workshop, 10-11.May.2008  Kids, creativi...
 
Children's theater workshop, 10-11.May.2008  Kids, creativi...
 
Goodnight Desdemona, award-winning play in English  BeMe Theatre...
 
Indian Stammtisch for Indians and friends  Next meet: @ venue TB...
 
Rowing World Cup 2008  Regatta in Oberschleißheim, 9-11.May.200...

Top English-language movies showing today:   (Friday 9th May)

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Pub events and TV sports: 09.May.2008   (more: events this month)

(none listed today) 

Maypole-raising at the Viktualienmarkt - A new, 36m tall maypole will be erected tomorrow morning, April 30th, at the Viktualienmarkt, and there'll be free beer to celebrate! Current regulations state that a maypole can stand for a maximum of 5 years, and it has to undergo a TÜV examination each year to make sure it's still safe - the old one at the Viktualienmarkt had to be removed at the beginning of this year as it no longer met the requirements. If you're an early bird you can watch… read more…

Oktoberfest site off limits during construction - Munich’s tourism office has announced that the Theresienwiese will be off limits for pedestrians and cyclists while the tents and rides are being set up for this year’s Oktoberfest, temporary fences and barricades will be installed. And this because a cyclist last year proved himself unable to steer and look at the same time – he ran into a barricade and sued the city of Munich for damages. Now, says Gabi Weishäupl, head of the tourism office,… read more…

Accessorize store opens in Munich - Financial disaster beckons for sparkle fans - yes, Accessorize has come to Munich! Packed to the brim with fetching flip-flops, beaded bags, dangly eardrops, blingy rings, hübsch hats, classy clips and best of all beautiful bags, bags, bags (plus the odd bold bikini), this cash black hole can be found at Sendlinger Str. 14. It opened today. And yes of course I went in. They also take MasterCard. Oh. Dear. Standard Sendlinger Str. opening hours.… read more…

Missed romantic encounters on the U-Bahn - A quick flirt, a transient encounter on the bus, train, or tram - and then you just can't get that person from this morning out of your head. With a bit of luck you can find your lost love again via the MVV website. Browse through the existing "missed connection" adverts or submit your own ad online. Maybe your flirt partner will take a look and see it. MVV website: Freizeit Ideen / Flirt… read more…

Scientology van spotted in Munich - It seems that the Scientologists are in town to attack Psychiatry with a travelling exhibition called "Psychiatrie - Tod Statt Hilfe". I was on my way home yesterday when I came across this van parked outside Bei Mario restaurant on Adalbertstr. It was hard to ignore its B-movie horror imagery complete with lightning effects. I took a couple of photos for future reference. Watch out for these guys - they won't mention that they are Scientologists,… read more…

Buddycloud - Your social network via mobile phone - We're three guys in Munich, with one in London, all with an interest in mobile phone technology. For the last year we've been working on Buddycloud and now need some help testing the phone client. What are we doing? Buddycloud takes your mobile's address book, mashes it up with our location fingerprint technology and then feeds the results back to your buddies. We use the cell ID information from the towers in the area to calculate location. Buddycloud… read more…

Travellers confuse Monaco di Baviera with Monaco - Munich and Monaco: two cities not especially known for their similarities, regardless of what some residents of Bogenhausen may imply, but joined in name. Seriously. Munich borrows a little jet-set glamour in Italian, as the town, considered by certain locals as the Mediterranean's most northerly city, becomes Monaco di Baviera. And not without problems for travellers: Stuff.co.nz article Two women led themselves on a wild goose chase from Italy… read more…

New streetcar line in Cosimapark/Englschalking - The MVG has recalled a streetcar project (German link) from obscurity and now plans to run a streetcar line from Effnerplatz via Cosimastrasse to St. Emmeram in Oberföhring, fondly known as the “Cosima-Express”. The plans for this project date back as far as the 1960s when the area around Arabellapark and Cosimabad was first developed, a wide grass divider in Cosimastrasse was executed to accommodate the tracks at some future stage. Trial drillings… read more…

Nuclear emergency planning for Munich - I was watching Jericho recently, which is a (stupid) TV series about a small town in the US that gets cut off from the world after a full-scale nuclear attack on the major cities, and got interested in what plans might be in place here for the event of fallout from a Chernobyl type accident or an attack. I did some googling, and found an EU manual 'A European Manual for Off-site Emergency Planning and Response to Nuclear Accidents' It's 341 pages… read more…

nanoTruck nanotechnology tour comes to Munich - Ever been interested in nanotechnology? Perhaps not yet, but the NanoTruck tour of Germany, hosted by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, hopes to change that view. Picture: Flad & Flad Communication GmbH This project aims to inform and educate the public, and especially kids (i.e. future researchers, as the project aims to promote careers in this section too), about nanotechnology and the various branches which use it, from medicine… read more…

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