Katie and TT 19-25.01.09

Katie was over this weekend (photos on facebook http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2267436&id=36801141&l=96764). This was the focal point of the week, other than that it was work and sport as usual. It was really nice to see her and the weekend was a great success. I took her out on the town to show her that even though this isn’t London, we still know how to party.

Pre-party on Saturday we went to the Nordbad and lounged around in the pool outside. It was lovely to be in a hot Jacuzzi in January, blue sky overhead and white snow on the ground around us. After this very civilised activity we went for a very civilised ladies-who-lunch meal. Saturday, we also had the privilege of being driven very fast (circa 250km/hr) in an Audi TT. On the Friday evening when she arrived Katie got in touch with a friend of the family to have a meal. We ended up eating in a Paulaner, coincidentally the one to which I had taken Katie when she was over here in October. The meal was fun and then we did a mini bar crawl of Munich starting in Pussers and ending in the News Bar, attempting various others on the way including a very swanky joint called Sylvester’s or something where we felt decidedly underdressed. That evening, circa 1am we talked him into taking us for a spin in his TT the next day. We (or rather I) didn’t expect him to actually mean it but he sent us a text and picked us up outside the café where we were having lunch. VERY swish. It was great. We drove out of Munich, onto the Autobahn and out to where the speed limits have no power… Driving at 250km/hr with the Killers on the radio and the Alps in the distance. Brilliant. I never knew Katie was such a speed freak

After this we had just enough time to do a quick tour of the shops for Katie to get a top and her Deutsch fix (books, mags, cds) and to buy food for that evening. I had invited the Erasmus lot and Vittoria from the Wohnheim for food then partying.

In the end we were about 10 or 11, it fluctuated. All I know is that there were 13 people for pudding. Faced with such a horde we did LOTS of pasta and 2 different sauces; tomato and Katie’s delicious fish sauce. After this we headed out on the town. The original plan (which fell apart of course) was to try out the Club and Line party bus, but I couldn’t find the timetable, couldn’t work it out and in the end couldn’t be bothered. We headed to Qclub in the Kultfabrik. In the end only 5 of us went to the club, me, Katie, Laure, Alex and Vittoria. The rest either went home to work (looming exams…) or to a houseparty. I wasn’t really feeling the houseparty as I didn’t know the hosts and wanted to go to a club…

So, dramatically thinned out, we headed off and had a really fun evening. We spent all evening in the Q club switching between the 2 dance floors. They have an electro room and a ‘cheese’ room. The electro room is good but the ‘cheese’ room is brilliant because it’s just like a bop, so Katie and I were right at home. By 5 am it was just me, Katie and Alex. So we left and went to meet the other stragglers at another bar. However, seeing the time, the state they were in, and thinking about Katie’s flight later in the day we made the wise choice of going home to sleep for 4 hours before getting up for Brunch.