300 and I lost count.

We woke to a nice breakfast, a little expensive but worth it considering the options. The car was parked and if we had it to do over we probably would have gone straight to the airport and turned it in.

I know I didn't want to be driving in Munich anymore. We bought a 10 Euro pass that allowed both of us to go anywhere by any public transport anywhere in the city as many times as we wanted. This was great and gave us the freedom to travel about the city as we wanted on our own time schedule.

Oh, we do have a schedule, the Glockenspiel only played at 11,12 and 5. We were going to meat our exchange student and his family around 5 and we wouldn't be able to make the 11 o'clock so 12 it must be. First a quick look at a palace that was close by. This was beautiful and considering the cost of real estate here, one can only imagine the tremendous value. We wanted to stay longer for there was much to see (probably 4 days of stuff) here but a exciting view of the swans and the garden out the back was all we really had time for if we were going to see the Glockenspiel at 12.

So we caught the street car and then the rail from there and watched our map closely for our stop. Our stop never came. Names of places passed where we wanted to go were being announced over the speaker time was running out... Ah what happened? We quickly got off at the next stop and re-oriented ourselves with the map and after some help from the locals we were back on the train going the opposite direction. There was no stop where we thought. We were 15 minutes passed were we need to be and it was 20 minutes til 12. We missed the Glockenspiel. Oh well there was always tomorrow and there was lots to see today. Although over whelmed with so much to see, we decided to take the advise of our hotel clerks suggestions. Open air market first. Here we ate and spent considerable time just walking around amazed at all the little shops, and signs, and food and lots and lots of people. Where did they all come from I kept asking. This wasn't even tourist season. Tired and sensless I ventured up the Alter Peter tower while Sherry did some shoppping. 298, 299, 300 whew. I really didn't count the steps but someone said there were 300+ steps to the top. for me it was a very authentic climb straight up the inside of a tower that over looked the city. Once again Sherry was patient and had correctly calculated the amount of time I would take; just me and my camera poking the lens out the iron grid on a 2' walk around the top to capture some amazing shots of Munich.