Germany continued.

The Holstein Tor at night.

Waiting for the laundry.

This is a model of the city of Luebeck built in the 1930's by school children!

Puppets!

Puppets!

In a store window. That is a real rose stem!

The fallen bells.

Door handle of the church.

Early morning in Luebeck on our way to the train station.

Okay, back to the trip. Our next stop was Luebeck, which nevermind what I said about Bremen earlier. Luebeck was really the important player in the Hanseatic League. The true star of the show. We drove our little red car there and got there after dark, but decided to walk to the old town for dinner. Luebeck really is a big city and the old town is big as well. There is a huge gate into the old part of the city and it now has a museum inside. We wandered around for awhile and finally found a restaurant. We have decided that restaurants are just better in Europe. It doesn't matter if it is the oldest, rundown looking place. The food is going to be good or great. When traveling, you can kind of just eat anywhere and it will be good. This restaurant was no exception. The next day we did laundry early and then went back to the old town. There is a puppet museum in Luebeck that is amazing! It was so cool and has puppets from almost every country in the world. Incredible. The church there is amazing as well. On Palm Sunday, 1942, the church was heavily damaged in a British air raid. The bell tower was hit and the bells fell to the floor of the church. The bells are still there as a remembrance. Almost everything in Germany was rebuilt after the war and you don't usually see things like this. Can you imagine the sound of those bells falling?


Next stop - Copenhagen, Denmark.