There are 6 or more cities in tripping distance from Munich but we chose Ulm for today's outing because we wanted to see the famous Muenster. We sorted out our erroneous tickets at the Reiszentrum and caught the Frankfurt ICE high speed train to Ulm. The trip took 1 hour 20 minutes for 150 kilometers. Very handy. Walked straight to the Muenster Platz and tried to photograph it.
Could only do it in two sections. So the best we could do was snap the model again.
It is the highest church spire in the world at 528 feet. That is more than twice as high as York. We went inside being warned that it was designed to hold 22000 people and it did indeed look that big. We felt it was similar to York but not quite as elaborately decorated. Very powerful nevertheless.
For four euros you can climb 768 steps but we surrendered to our heavy day pack and settled for chocolate cheesecake and lemon milchshake at the Stadthaus Cafe.
Google has just made me sign up for US$2.49 per month because my photos have used 1 Gig on the blog. So, to continue, the church is badly weathered and constant renovation is taking place and like all these buildings they are never seen as completely pristine. Ulm was a very convenient place to shop so we caught up with repairs to the hearing aids, new memory card for Lyn's camera, trim for Malcolm's beard and haircut for Lyn as well as maps and advice from the big i , all in a surprisingly short time. Found our way down to the Danube and ate our cut lunch in the pleasant Rose Garden above the river, which, because of the heavy recent rain was flowing upside down. Perhaps by the time it gets to Vienna it will have turned from brown to blue.
Many people had told us about the good cycle path that follows the Danube, so we took the opportunity to walk 2.5 kilometers downstream following a class of school children who turn up everywhere with teachers as holidays approach. We crossed a bicycle/pedestrian bridge and followed the path on the other side back into town. We gave it the thumbs up. Did not see any of those 400+metre river cruisers that are supposed to be crowding out the Danube now. Our only criticism of Ulm was lack of public toilets (50c at the station were the only ones we found apart from Burger King).
We liked there tourism motto: in Ulm, um Ulm, um Ulm herum. Try saying that ten times quickly. Back on the train we were very happy with our day's "work" and settled into our comfortable first class window seats. We still cannot work out how to find coach 29 when a train with 20 carriages pulls into a station. We always end up holding up the train. On the way back we were glad to see that everywhere we went in the countryside there were houses with many solar panels and ho water panels. Many barns and factory rooves had complete cover with solar panels some farms had several hundred of them laid out in the fields.
On the Danube they were even offering weekend trips on a "Solarboot"
Back home comfortably at 7pm.
No comments:
Post a Comment