{"id":728,"date":"2016-06-30T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/europeluxurycars.com\/luxuria\/blog_record\/spending-80k-in-a-journey-from-munich-to-florence\/"},"modified":"2024-12-29T11:20:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T11:20:57","slug":"spending-80k-in-a-journey-from-munich-to-florence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/europeluxurycars.com\/luxuria\/spending-80k-in-a-journey-from-munich-to-florence\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuelled on Cash: 80K over 800km"},"content":{"rendered":"

The challenge was set, I had the critics who said it couldn\u2019t be done, but hell to them, I proved them all wrong and in dazzling style too. In that once-in-a-lifetime and couldn\u2019t-believe-this-actually-happens scenario, I came into a windfall of 80,000\u20ac that I was tasked to spend within 10 days in a journey from Munich to Florence.\u00a0 At first blush that doesn\u2019t seem too hard, I mean this neck of the European woods is afterall not known for its humble and meagre lifestyle. But then on second glance when you consider that a 5 star hotel booking in Munich is only at best 1,000\u20ac a night you quickly realise how this may become a considerable challenge with 80K to expire over 800 km of highway.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more my acceptance of the challenge pinged on several conditions:<\/p>\n

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  1. 1. I had to leave for the journey within the hour. This of course meant no time for packing, which I wasn\u2019t too sorry about, but also no time for planning which meant that most of my decisions were going to be made on the fly.<\/li>\n
  2. 2. No accompanying friends.<\/li>\n
  3. 3. Nothing illegal.<\/li>\n
  4. 4. No escorts. I know, but I\u2019m engaged anyway and I really should behave.<\/li>\n
  5. 5. No lasting purchasers that I am permitted to keep.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In a rare twist in life, the only strength working in my favour was my admittedly expensive sense of taste. A secret weapon stashed away, my unabashed sense of epicureanism, is never normally given the chance to find full expression and although requiring a bit of a \u201cdusting off\u201d, it could finally be put to work.<\/p>\n

    \"Descending<\/p>\n

    Arrive in Munich<\/h3>\n

    I knew luck was on my side as I arrived in Munich. City of heavy beer and meaty bratwurst, you either go hard in Munich or you don\u2019t go at all. My flight into Munich was via a private jet, while it was a mighty force of luck that I was able to organise this jet in time, thankfully I was permitted to include the cost of the Swarovski-champagne-glass-serving-flight into my budget. With better internet connection at 20, 000 feet above the air, then what I get in my cramped Manchester, 2nd floor apartment, I was able to make an online booking for the car I was going to drive – the McLaren 570 S hire. Futuristic and hyper aerodynamic, my bias and first choice for supercar went to this morphine riddled motorised beast.<\/p>\n

    \"First<\/p>\n

    My first port of destination in Munich was the National theater where that night it hosted a Wagner classic, the Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg. With prime balcony seats i was finally able to realise my appreciation for Wagner that previously I didn\u2019t know I had. For my lodgings I went with the glamorous globe trotter\u2019s favourite of the Mandarin Oriental Munich. One of their available rooms for the night was the Tower suite which amongst its curved windows, floor to ceiling silk curtains, chinese artwork and delicate artifacts on display, also offered \u201cA Taste of Matsuhisa\u201d. A culinary experience of Japanese fusion food with a South American twist. Maybe \u2018Matsuhisa\u2019 is Japanese for \u201ckill me now, i\u2019ve done it all\u201d, and if it\u2019s not, it should be.<\/p>\n