PART THREE TOUR WITH A PURPOSE
Ulm has a truly massive church, with the tallest church spire in the world (allegedly), but most of it is covered in scaffolding. In the town I find a leather goods shop with a well-used 500 Enfield parked outside.
By Sunday Ulm is busy with tourists, so I decide to go for a ride to explore some of the local country and villages. Blauburen is the first village I ride into and it has plenty for me to explore, and the first thing I find is a plaque to a previous motorcycle event. Plaques commemorating motorcycle events are not so common.
Then I visit the Abbey, which was originally Catholic and was founded in 1085. It was okay for nearly 500 years until the Reformation came along and then it became Protestant. If you have nothing to do for the rest of your life, you could try to get your head around European religious and political history, as it seems that there was usually a war going on and there were times when they were