Day 10
The weather in Germany is interesting. One moment it is clear blue skies and the next thing you know you under dark rain clouds being pommeled with cold rain. That’s how the day started on the way to BMW for the media trip.
Looking outside the window, the skies were bright blue, the sun shining and the temperature nice and warm. I had walked the past two days and figured I should take the wheelchair, since today was all walking. The weather, judging by the appearance, looked like it was going to stay nice – wrong.
While on the journey to BMW, we took the underground system, which isn’t handicap accessible for getting off and on the trains. Alexa was helping me maneuver through the people and Arnoud was lifting the chair and me off and on the train. Alexa had handed me her purse for safekeeping. The unthinkable happened next, while Arnoud was getting me on the train, her purse fell off the train and on to the tracks! (I feel terrible). The doors closed (with all of us on board) and Alexa’s bag still on the tracks as we speeded away. We all got off at the next stop and Alexa and Arnoud doubled back to get her purse.
From what we were told, when we regrouped, Arnoud jumped on to the tracks and rescued Alexa’s purse! Talk about being a modern day hero. All of this happened under ten or so minutes.
We continued to BMW. Wow. BMW is an amazing company, and extremely involved in the next up coming thing. The media and advertising strategies they use are very well planned and thought through. At BMW, they showed us their plan for their new lines of vehicles: BMWi. These are cars are electric based and for city people to provide better mobility around the city.
BMW building
After the meeting we went to the museum. Now I did not realize this at the time, but BMW owns the Mini series (Mini Coopers), which happens to be my all time favorite car in the entire world. So during the tour, we saw BMW’s top cars, Rolls Royce, and Mini Coopers. The tour also included a historical portion on the company.
Then at the end of the tour, we looked out the window. Pitch black clouds, strong gusts of winds, lighting flashing in the sky and torrential down pour, and since I thought it was going to be nice – no raincoat or umbrella for Carson. In fact, I wasn’t the only one who thought the weather was going to be nice, and a couple of us didn’t even have a coat.
It’s safe to say most of us got wet on the way back to the metro stop. After we got back to the hotel, we had free time. Some of went shopping; I decided to relax as we are planning on going to the Hopfbräuhaus for dinner.
Tomorrow the last full day in Munich!
Carson
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