Stay at The Tent, Drink in the Hofbrauhaus and the beer garden in the Englischer Garten.heading later in the week
just starting to look into what to do now
any recommendations?
decent record stores?
very fond of expressionist paintings, which galleries might be best for that?
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The main strip of museums is next to the Englischer Garten, the modern art gallery there should be able to help you find the independent smaller galleries and as you'd expect the gallery itself has a great range of modern german stuff like Richter, the Beckers etc. When I was there it had a Robert Mapplethorpe retrospective but it was his portrait work rather than the bullwhip up the arse stuff so i wasn't that impressed. There's a state museum that houses loads of design, engineering and industrial exhibits which is actually pretty amazing, like a science museum mixed with a weird natural history museum. It's air conditioned that was the main thing I loved about it, I'll get to that later.
Go to a warehouse party if you can, they're fucking mental. Pills were cheap and fucking mind blowing. I didn't stay too long because I was a bit freaked by the amount of half naked gay body builders and because a mate of mine convinced me before I went that gingers were a major fetish there. To be fair I should have milked them for every free drink I could get, but like I said, mind blowing pills.
I was there in July and it was 40 degrees every day with no wind at all, not sure when you're there but be prepared it get's ridiculously oppressively hot.
Eat everything, it's all amazing, especially the Italian food.