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Marienplatz and Rathaus (City Hall) - day and night 瑪利亞廣場及市政會堂的日景和夜景 19-03-2006 The figures in the clock tower will dance and rotate like a merry-go-round everyday at 1100, 1200 and 1700 hours, accompanied by ringing bells. 每日11、12及17點，鐘樓內的玩具人物便會隨着鐘聲旋轉起舞。 19-03-2006 Marienplatz (literally, the Square of Mary) is right in front of the Rathaus and is the centrepoint of Munich. 瑪利亞廣場就在市政會堂前面，是慕尼黑的正中心。 25-03-2006 One of the best places for photos at night in Munich. 慕尼黑最佳夜景之一。 City Streets 市區街道 19-03-2006 Sendlinger Tor (Sendling Gate) and Sendlingerstrasse (Sendling Street) Sendling大門及Sendling街 19-03-2006 A church on Sendlingerstrasse Sendling街的一家教堂

Come and see what most toursits to Munich miss out on! (Click to enlarge pictures.) 一般遊客看不到的慕尼黑，就由我帶各位見識一下吧！（在相片點擊一下即可放大。） Martinsried/Planegg The suburb/district in which the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (where I am working now) is situated 我工作的研究所（馬普生化研究所）所在之區域 21-03-2006 A small local church 本區一座小教堂 18-03-2006 Planegg town centre Planegg 市中心 24-03-2006 Happy Billiard - a place for billiard and other forms of entertainment, the one and only in Martinsried. See my lab in action at the billiard tables! Martinsried一家名為Happy Billiard的桌球室，亦是區內唯一的娛樂場所，我和同事下班後娛樂一下。 Max Planck Institute 馬普研究所 There are actually 2 institutes on the Martinsried campus, namely biochemistry and neurobiology. Martinsried is in the process of becoming a research hub with the Bavarian Innovation Centre and the 2nd Biology Department of Ludwig-Maximillians University (the top German university) moving into a site opposite to the Max Planck Institute. 此間的馬普研究所，計有生化及神經科學研究所。馬普研究所對面的土地，現建有巴伐利亞創新中心，將來德國最佳大學─Lud...

There seems to be only one topic of conversation at work this Monday and Tuesday (6th and 7th March). The classical excerpts include: ‘I haven’t seen this much snow for a while!’ ‘I couldn’t drive to work today because I couldn’t move my car out of the snow.’ And for something slightly out of this world: ‘I parked my car somewhere on the street, and I couldn’t find where it is under the cover of snow!’ When the snow became the only ‘hot’ topic of the town, one can appreciate how heavy it has been. And for me, everything to do with snow still has a very high novelty factor. So when the snow stopped on Wednesday morning, the first thing I did was to look for photo opportunities around the place. I was glad I had seized the day, because the rain on Wednesday night had washed away a lot of the snow. Of course, the car-owners were also rejoicing over the end of their inconvenience! The snow may look romantic from the warm indoors, but it’s a different story if one has to deal with or agains...

On my first day, I went into work, and then straight to the departmental retreat! I wanted a break before I start work and I got it! The retreat was held at Ringberg Castle, about 70 km from Munich. The Castle is not the usual grand medieval type we tend to think about, but it’s still quite pretty. It sits on a hill and overlooks a lake (Tegernsee) surrounded by typical Bavarian villages. When the talks at the retreat become boring, at least there’s beautiful scenery to look at from the lecture room! No, I don’t mean that the retreat was boring and useless. Just the opposite. I never realised that the department has its hands in everything from physics to biology, and I was quite dazzled at the technology they had at their disposal. But what amazed me more was that there were several things in life I could never run away from. I listened to yet another talk on Alzheimer’s disease, my PhD research topic, from one of our guests, and as he spoke, I could see the Introduction chapter of my...

The coldest welcome in my life so far ... 在慕尼黑的第一個感覺：冷 26-02-2006 Munich is already filled with snow on my arrival ... 第一天已是遍地白雪…… 04-03-2006 ... and becomes totally covered after a week, 一星期後積雪更深，連樹也變成白色。