Woke up early and waited until the lounge opened for breakfast at 7:30, but it was worth the wait. Hopped on a tram and then S-Bahn and U-Bahn to the Olympic park where the BMW (beh-em-veh in German) factory, welcome center (pick up your new car), and museum are located. Toured the museum, which shows the complete history of their motorcycles and cars as well as the history of Mini cars.

The very important signs that tell you which way the train is going.

An artistic Mini.

BMW Welcome Center, sometime likened to a mushroom.

BMW Museum.

Self-portrait in a train window.

A rather empty S-Bahn train near the end of the S8 line.

A welcoming monk at Kloster Andechs.

Pork belly and potato salad. Yummy!

Time for another Doppelbock!

Altar inside a small chapel in an alcove of the church at the monastery.

By the time I got back into the city, it was raining. Dinner at the hotel.

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