Ikea, and Festival in Schwabing

Friday June 24. After Logan got home from work, we went to the nearby Ikea. Spent a couple hours in the cool, wandering through the displays. We were looking for just a few items, that would help organize things. We looked at all their furniture, this was the first time Logan had been in an Ikea. We had dinner in their cafeteria, and then down to the “Costco” area and bought a magazine rack, a knife, a free standing-towel rack (hanging on the door they don’t dry), a chair that fits me, and a small shelving unit. We got them back to the apartment and started assembling. The only tool we lacked was a hammer. Logan made do with the doorstop rock.


Saturday, June 25. Today dawned hot. We went for a bike ride in the morning, looked at the nearby town of Taufkirchen. There’s a good-looking apt. there coming up for rent.

We went grocery shopping, took the car so we could replenish the wine & juice supplies. Just too heavy for me to carry much home.

Then, as the evening started to cool, we hopped on the S-bahn and connected with the U-bahn to take us into the Munich neighborhood of Schwabing. I had read on the ToyTown site that there was a festival there, HerzogStrasseFest. We finally found it. Food & drink booths, and several bands. One interesting difference from California street festivals – all food and drink is served on and in real plates and glasses. You pay a 2 Euro deposit when you buy the food and you get a token from that vendor. When you return items and token to the vendor, you get your 2 Euro back. Really keeps down on the litter.

There was one band that really had the crowd lit up. We stopped to listen as they started “You can keep your hat on”. The crowd knew all the words. They played songs like “Summer of ‘69”, “All right now”, "long Train Running" and were starting a ballad by Whitesnake as we headed out. Everyone knew the words to all the songs. The crowd was truly all ages, we saw people who had to have been in their 70s dancing in front of the band, along with the young mother & her 3-year old. What fun!