Christine in Ulm, Germany

Visiting new cities is exciting for me.  Utilizing the Germany guide book my mother sent for my birthday (great present by the way--cough--may want to buy me one for say France--cough), I decided to drive to Ulm, Germany on Saturday, May 21, 2011 (just want to note that the world did not end at 1800 on this day).  Ulm is about an hour south of Stuttgart (taking the Autobahn (A8) towards München).

Ulm has a beautiful church with the tallest steeple in the world.  The church took centuries to build.  You can even walk up 500 plus steps of the steeple.  If you know me (at all really) then you now I am afraid of heights.  Yes, I'll claim it.  I don't like being high up in the open.  This walk qualifies as both.  There are windows along all the spiral steps.  They are covered by mesh (probably so the pigeons can't eat you) but still very open.  Maybe one day I'll go back (with support) and walk up.  But if you're a betting man, I wouldn't make that bet.

I made it this far up (see the tiny windows and the balcony):

That is really high for me.  This is the view from there (closing down the farmer's market):

Here is the stairwells (barely fit one person--I couldn't bare to take a picture with a window-don't like them):

We bombed the city in WWII, but not the church.  The city is currently renovating/cleaning the church (another cool view):

Christine