Normally, nothing is as difficult in Germany as to get tickets for particular TV-shows because most of them are nearly always sold out and you have to book many months in advance. But with all that many game-shows nowadays being taped and broadcast, it was possible for our TINA-group to get tickets for today´s "Millionär gesucht" (wanted: millionaire) in Munich where TINA should present her new single "Don´t leave me this way".
As Ralf and Lars lived in Essen which is a town about 20 km away from my own home town, we had decided to meet there at the central station as usual at 6:00 a.m. so that I could take the first train.

We went by car to Munich and arrived there in the early afternoon. Apparently, the receptionist of our regular hotel (as often as TINA is in Munich we are also there), must have gotten the impression: "Oh god, not they again". Hardly arrived, hardly even opened our suitcases, we had a shower and, of course, our first guests. Then, he surely remembered our first stay in Munich with all that running out of the building, entering it again only to leave several minutes later and, evidently, without having to sleep. It was the first time that I should meet Reinhard whom I have phoned with many times during the last weeks and month and who lives about 100 km away from Munich. More over, a friend of his living in Munich and hopefully being able to show us the ways to the film studios (hopefully, I repeat!) wanted to meet us, too. Therefore, we had arranged a meeting at the hotel because we wanted to go shopping, sightseeing and inspecting TINA´s regular hotel where we had met here two years ago. To sum up, it only took half an hour until we were ready to meet Reinhard and Tom in the lounge and to conquer the city with them. It was very nice to meet Reinhard who is a real TINA fan and Tom who is, well, a TINA-interested, so to speak.

We should have known after the first signs of Tom´s not being completely able to use the subway and knowing the direction to TINA´s hotel, that it could provoke several problems to find the film studios but we did not lose hope.
It was very that afternoon even considering that it was March so we really want avoid to spend too many time outside the hotel and waiting for TINA. Unfortunately, our inspection of the multi-storey car park which belonged to the hotel gave us no indication that TINA could be in the hotel. Therefore, we assumed her to have come by car from Zürich and not even staying here in Munich one night.

We had to make a rush to eat something until we tried to get to the Bavaria film studios. On the opposite side of the street was a building site next to an Italian restaurant. It is, of course, of no particular interest that the restaurant was Italian or that there was a restaurant at all but the iron hoarding was wholly covered by concert posters. Guess, who was on one of these posters? Right, our TINA. First, Ralf wanted to steal the TINA-poster but even though it was fixed to the hoarding by scotch tape, the scotch tape, the hoarding and the poster formed a real unit so he would have destroyed the poster by tearing it off. Further more - and now the Italian restaurant enters the stage -, the customers in the restaurant observed the spectacle with growing interest. Finally, it was me who could not allow the fantastic poster to hang around without being my own so that I looked in my rucksack. Well, you surely have always a pair of scissors with you, but I had to use one of my keys to cut the scotch tape. Meanwhile, all children accompanied by their parents and the waiters gazed through the windows and wondered why five boys were so excited to get a simple TINA-poster. How embarrassing for the others, not for me, because it was my poster! But therefore we had to go back to the hotel so as to place it safe and warm.

It was now, that we really saw that Tom did not know his own city completely because we missed the first tram and took the second because our reflections if we should take a taxi or not were simply too long.
Meanwhile, the temperature had even fallen so that we expected the night to become absolutely winter-like. Pretty at then end of civilization with us being nearly the last passengers in the tram we reached the film studios in time but only twenty minutes before the show. After a long way across the territory by a special little train we got to a warm place inside the building. Unfortunately, this little train had no window panes so that the mixture of coldness and wind was nearly unbearable. But when we stepped out of the building to get finally to the studio - yes, they made it very dramatic, but except us all other visitors were interested in the show and did not even know that TINA would be in it -, it snowed. Of course, we were not at least amazed, the service personnel forced us again to ride with the little train without window panes so that our hair and clothing were completely out of order due to all the snow and the cold. Possibly TINA had to use the same little train to get to the show so that she would understand our special appearance.
To be honest, we were only interested in seeing TINA and did not know the rules or even the exact content of this game show. Even the explanation of the guide - the man who forced us to use the train, you surely remember - were not of any assistance. But as far as we understood the situation in the studio, the main ability of the candidates to win the one million deutchmarks was luck which was distributed among the candidates with the aid of a ball turning its rounds in a railway and so on. The game was completely boring, and we hoped the pauses for the advertisement to be free of any kind of running balls across the studio but they even played the same game with the audience in order to give the winners presents. Oh my god, and even after this torture of TV-show plus advertisement-pauses we could not figure out the sense of the game.

And then TINA. We were all that excited, that I gave a shout when I saw her entering the room and waiting next to the stage until it was free for her. As soon as I caught a glimpse of her, I screamed "TINA!" which you could even hear on television, and, well, I was somewhat embarrassed because it was like a normal reflex to me. Most people who knew that we were in Munich asked me if it really was me whom they had heard shouting. I never asked my mother if she was proud of me but I think so (haha). As the interview with another guest did not want to stop, for heaven´s sake, TINA had to stand along time next to the stage, had to sit a long time on the stage her chair waiting for the music to start.
We had discussed many times about this woollen dress TINA wears on the photo in the 24/7-booklet, but that night, we were allowed to see it live before our very eyes. It looked fantastic but at the same time somewhat dangerous for TINA because you never know if such a dress is really fixed with all that nice holes in it. But as she did not move much during the performance, it was a beautiful appearance and, as usual, made the journey and the unbearable game worthwhile.

After the show we left immediately because we want to avoid to wait too long in the queue of the wardrobe.
To celebrate this evening, we made a rush to the hotel, changed clothes within minutes, confused the receptionist once more and left the hotel for a party in a club. I will never forget the way back to the hotel because after the snow it had rained and all streets were completely frozen. We were lucky not to have broken any leg or arm slippering back to the hotel.