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NO WAVE GOODBYE
Possibly the last sport you might expect to see being practiced in Munich is surfing, but go to the
southern tip of the English Garden at Prinzregentenstrasse and you'll see scores of people leaning
over a bridge to cheer on wetsuit-clad daredevils as they hang on an
artificially created wave in
the Eisbach
(Prinzregentenstrasse, Eisbach)
. It's only a single wave, but it's a damn fine one. A
few years ago park authorities attempted to ban this watery entertainment, but a successful cam-
paign by surfers saw plans to turn the wave off shelved. Now some of the board riders have even
put in an application for their sport (river surfing) to be included in the 2016 Olympics!
To find out more about Munich's urban surfers log on to
www.eisbachwelle.de
.
The best public swimming pool options, both indoors, are the
Olympia Schwimmhalle
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(
www.swm.de
;
Coubertinplatz 1; 3hr pass adult/concession
€4.20/3.20; 7am-11pm; Olympiazentrum)
, where Mark Spitz famously won seven
gold medals in 1972; and the spectacular
Müller'sches Volksbad
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(Rosenheimer Strasse 1; adult/child €4/3.10; 7.30am-11pm; Am
Gasteig)
, where you can swim in art nouveau splendour, then sweat it out in the Ro-
man-Irish bath. Alternatively you could head to the
Dante-Winter-Warmfreibad
(Postil-
lonstrasse 17; adult/child €3.70/2.70; 9am-6pm; Westfriedhof)
, a modern heated
outdoor pool open from autumn to spring, for an invigorating dip in the depths of winter.
MUNICH FOR CHILDREN
(Tiny) hands down, Munich is a great city for children with plenty of activities, including parks
for romping around, swimming pools and lakes for cooling off and beer gardens with childrens'
playgrounds for making new friends. Many museums have special kid-oriented programs, but the
highly interactive
KinderReich
at the Deutsches Museum (
Click here
)
specifically lures the
single-digit set.
Kids love animals, of course, making the zoo Tierpark Hellabrunn (
Click here
)
a sure bet. Pet-
ting baby goats, feeding pelicans, watching falcons and hawks perform, or even riding a camel
should make for some unforgettable memories. For a fishy immersion head to the new
SeaLife
10am-7pm;
Olympiazentrum)
in the Olympic Park. Dino fans gravitate to Paläontologisches
