A trip to the BMW factory and museum were a
must do while in Munich. We had an early
morning start at the BMW factory joining the first tour of the day. The tour began with a short movie about BMW
before heading into the factory.
The factory was amazing; it produces 950
BMW’s per day to order! Each stage of
the production is fascinating; we saw the tools/moulds used to create the body
of the cars, assembling the 3 layers of the body, painting, seats being made,
electronics being fitted, motors and the final assembly.
There were thousands of robots and the
accuracy of the robots was astounding for example they place parts with a
0.04mm accuracy/tolerance. Alongside the
robots there are 7500 staff working in the factory. The precision, detail and order of the
factory is outstanding.
We were not allowed to take photo’s or video,
in fact you are not even allowed your mobile phone and there is video
surveillance everywhere to make sure you are doing the right thing.
After some lunch we headed across the road to
the BMW museum. The museum holds 400
BMW’s from it’s just over 90 year old collection.
Another place we visited while in Munich was
the Krone Circus. The Krone Circus is 4
generations old and is probably the best circus we have been to. Once again no photos allowed, we took a
couple before the actual circus started.
The circus had lots of amazing acts like
trapeze artists, balancing acts, clowns, Asian dancers/strongmen/gymnastic type
routines, horses and dogs. They are also
famous for their lion show. The lion
tamer had 24 lions and tigers, we felt a bit sorry for them although most of
them had been born at the circus and hand reared by the tamer.
The weather has warmed up as the week has
gone by, once again we have enjoyed another holiday and home exchange. Off to Switzerland in 5 weeks!
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