SHARING WITH ME

 Before posting the further chapters on my Munich trip, thought a little comedy relief would be enjoyable - like a trip to London.......  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How often are you the real tourist in a city? One of those who visits every historical or other site? Unless I have someone who doesn’t know a city at all, as was the case in New York with Pierrette and Helena last year, I always seem to have had a reason to go somewhere, which wasn’t touristic. How many times have I been to London? Lived in London? I couldn’t count but now I was off to be a tourist with a very close friend who had visited the city 20 years ago - what had changed? The hotel I had chosen was central and opposite the Kensington Gardens, then Hyde Park and just a short trot away from Harrods. Apart from food goods, we were not inspired to use our credit cards any further. The Corus Hotel in SW1 The parks though are a plea...

Munich had been booked for months and considering the lack of interesting exhibitions in Paris, I was counting the weeks and then the days to take-off time. My taxi had been ordered for an early morning departure - although the driver called me to say he was running late, and then a second time to say he was running very late - I panicked, canceled him and called another. It arrived in 5 minutes putting me down at CDG with 45 minutes to spare. I have never been able to travel this way. It causes an inner-stress. I would prefer to have more than an hour in front of me for a departure rather than that rush-rush…..the return trip was as I like it! Now had I been to Munich? I could not have told you when and by the end of my three days, I’m pretty sure that I had not visited the city before. Here there was the exhibition quarter (which I got to know very well) and the Kunsthalle in the centre of the city which would be my first port of call. There were eight exhibitions to see in 5 majo...