On Saturday, we did a 7-mile round trip walk (in the rain) to the Olympic Park where the BMW Museum is located.  (We were told that the museum is one of the most visited sites in Munich.)  If at all possible, we both try to walk everywhere when visiting each city.   .   .   even if it is raining!  There are two buildings at BMW:  The museum and BMW Welt (World) where they display all their new cars.  Inside the BMW museum you are taken through a skillfully designed labyrinth of corridors and levels with exhibitions “boasting” about the company and all the benefits it provides its employees. (Did we really pay an admission fee for this?)  Although BMW has laid out nine decades worth of their automobile history; we just didn’t feel enough great history was illustrated in an easy chronological way.  We did see engines, aircraft, motorcycles and various BMW models.

The BMW Welt, a separate building, looks like a large silver salad bowl.  It is an architectural triumph of sorts and was worth the walk to the complex just to see it up close.  It is strictly a product show room that showcases the latest Beamer and Rolls Royce models. The exhibition also includes models of the future, which have yet to hit the roads.

On our rainy walk back from the BMW Museum, the streets were blocked off due to some sort of charity sports car event.  The most fabulous car we saw and probably will ever in our life see again was a zebra-striped Rolls Royce. It was an unbelievable sight.  We always seem to see some very intriguing sights by walking a city!