Wednesday 8th Lubeck
Some more booking flights and
researching hotels and trains. We set off by train to the nearby town of
Lubeck, famed as the city of 7 Towers. It had been extensively bombed during
the war but most of the major buildings have been fully restored. We had been
expecting to find a complete mediaeval village but all the smaller buildings
were gone. (Hamburg is the same – one high church tower remains gaunt and
skeletal , like most it was bombed and this one was left as a memorial. There is a lift in the tower which takes you
up for very good views of the city.)
I had been happy enough to waddle
along as a consort and my devotion was rewarded when I stumbled across a large
rack of bright luminous dayglo Crocks!! Including my favourite colour – Dutch
Orange! So I now have blinding orange rubber shoes to go with my watch. I can
hardly wait to get on The Queen Mary with these. (J cringes just a little)
For her part, J was delighted to
add to her already mighty photographic collection of green-roofed ancient
buildings. I have to admit that it was a very pretty town, once the richest in
Germany because it was part of the Hanseatic League. Besides the churches, the old city gates are
unusual and grand.
WOW. Awesome city gate
Rathaus - townhall
Wow.
A working replica of a Guttenburg press.
This was gold and finely detailed. Beautiful
Remants of prebombed church walls and detailing are left as memorials
Enormous bells - they don't look so big in this photo.
We availed ourselves of a spirally
cinnamon iced confection with a Macca cino (1 Euro) and later succumbed to a
chocolate muffin. For dinner we scored our best salmon deal yet – 200gm for
E2.35. We also bought coke zeros from a supermarket, which charges 25c each
extra for the bottles. When they are empty, you can take them back and feed
them into a huge machine that crushes them and then prints you a receipt which
you can cash in at the desk. These machines are popular with the fringe
dwellers, who collect bottles from the parks and bins.
Closer inspection of my yellow bag
revealed my Bahamas cap hiding in there . . oh joy!
More towers....enjoy
More towers....enjoy
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