Day 55 Pounding the pavements of Munich

Monday 14/05/2018 Karma Bavaria Schliersee Room 210 (12 SZ)

Up very early to be organised for us to go on the train to Munich... we have done this trip before but it was an organised one with a tour leader to show us how to do it and it was over 4 years ago... so we were hoping our brains would kick in!
Tried to contact mum and dad again but still seems to be an issue so contacted Jill again to see if she can help, but being so far away from them doesn’t help... we think Dad may have hit something on his phone that has stopped Messenger from working... His dial tone when we phone is totally different to everyone else’s... so for now we just send a message to say try again tomorrow...

So breaky done off we set for the train Stn earlier, we are told we can’t get a ticket until 9am, but we arrived at 8.30 and managed to buy our ticket got on the train hoping we would get get kicked off.. and fortunately BOB went all good no issues in Munich in no time and such a relaxing ride....

The trains are clean and comfortable. Good price to go in for a tourist..
Once there it was with no map, we couldn’t find a tourist map any where, couldn’t even find a tourist info centre... seem too be a bit light on these...l anyway good old google maps to the rescue.

So we weaved our way from one path to the next without a plan other than to see the Asam Church & Vodophone about when our plan runs out! ..... we managed to go around in circles a few times ending up back to where we started... ohh forgot yes we did have another agenda to get Johns new boot fixed.. he must have got it hooked on something shape as it has torn the leather on the side of his foot... so finding a bookmaker was a challenge in the end we found 2 both needed his boot for over a day, as he was wearing it that wasn’t a good plan... so we will have to try somewhere else down the track... he can wear them just needs to restiched and strengthen where it’s torn... we found the Vodophone shop and well at the end of the day even though we were told from the start we could keep it going all over Europe that isn’t quite right.... we basically have to get new Sims when these run out.... a pain to be honest... but that’s part of travel I guess! We can’t pay for it on line it has to be at an office and each country that is with Vodaphone runs their shop different in each country so you can’t pay for it in a different country to what you bought it... they didn’t tell us that when we first got them..l

So after that disappointment we continued to see as much as we could without knowing what to see, we basically just fell upon sites as we sight saw.... Church’s we had no idea what they were we could just see big doors so went in and discovered amazing beautiful buildings... The one with the huge tall ceilings turns out to be St Michaels’ we spotted this one at lunch time across fro where we were sitting... the others purely by looking in the doors. So much of Munich from a quick observation looks boring, but once you dig a little and step into their world of books and crannies... you come across some really interesting sights... So many simple but affective water features... a street that looks like nothing in it becomes a maze of interesting shops... Cities can be so incognito in many ways, hiding their delights and only showing them once you start to dig deeper...

The finding of the Asam Church was a bit challenging but we found it, only to see a huge crane parked right infringement of the big doors, with a man in a basket up very high working on the outside of the church.. men had it cordoned off to stop people getting under the crane and basket, but 2 women still walked straight through the barriers and to the front doors they were locked so no access.. I went to go closer and John Quickly put me in my place, saying those women should be charged due to the dangerous nature of what the workmen were doing, they could easily be killed, by falling g debris! He wasn’t impressed at all, so as you gather I didn’t get closer... sad I was so looking forward to seeing it reading so much about it... it was built bb2 brothers who wanted their own private church, very ornate apparently!

So off we set to once again we found ourselves in the midst of the main square, the Marienplatz as it is called... I spotted the steeples and said to John let’s see what that is, next thing we heard the beers of the Glockenspiel playing and realised where we were heading it was 12md so the clock was doing it’s display.. and yes 1,000 watching it do it’s thing!
As we had seen this only a few years back we decided to wander across the square to under the Glockenspiel through the arch to a quiet world with hardly a soul in there.... I couldn’t believe that the 1,000 outside would just watch the show and go... but that’s what we did last time however we were with a tour group that had to get going..l so a look without heaps around was a pleasure...

Then again we weaved our way from one street to the next, coming across interesting sights, another unreal church that I found again by accident. I saw the big doors and thought I would just try them to see if they would open, and yep they did, so in I go it’s a smaller church than the others very small, and unreal inside... only downside is it has bars across the whole entrance to the church, but you could see inside just between the bars! They did make it a real challenge trying to get good shots, as your hand would only squeeze through small sections and once through, careful not to drop the phone then try to get a decent picture due to the angle you had to be on was one heck of a challenge... anyway I managed to get some, just couldn’t get the roof sadly no angle would allow you to get the phone and the camera in a better position to get one! I am grateful to see this little church I am guessing it’s in same caliber, as the Asam Church... so still got to see something different jus don know what the place really is called!

So off we go towards the train Stn, getting there just as our train is about to go, did the same this morning so twice in one day we have had good fortune to get the train just in time... very tired in our way back as it’s been a full day of walking...

We stopped at the supermarket to get some quick dinner... I had soup John had a bagel, very nourishing....

Back home in time to hit the jacuzzi again to relax the muscles 💪.... then dinner and early bed, a day well spent...Read more