Jay and Karen's Adventures!

This is a blog we are using to share some pictures and stories of our trip to Ireland and Europe! We'll be here somewhere into April 2008 and look forward to sharing our travels! cheers!

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Monday, November 05, 2007

The Town of Bremen in NW Germany

We went for a long weekend in north-western Germany to a town called Bremen.
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They've been host to the longest funning festival, Freimarkt. It's actually been going on since 1035 A.D.!
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There were roller coaster rides and TONS of food and beer. One of our favorite foods was a plate of fresh potato pancakes with apple sauce.
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They also serve hot mulled wine. It's the red wide in the large globe in the background of the above picture. I didn't really love it, but had to try it to see what it was like.
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The machismo in me made me think... "I can knock over those cans... how hard can it be!" It's harder than it looks, the balls don't weigh much at all.
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These are the Bremen Town Musicians (click to read the story summary) from the Brothers Grimm fairy tales.
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There are representations of the Bremen Town Musicians all over this city. The lamp fixture above shows the 4 animals.
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When we woke up and walked into the old town on Saturday morning, we saw a HUGE crowd of people lining up along that looked like a parade or race route.
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Turns out there was a 150 float parade that morning. All the kids along the route had canvas bags they used to collect candy from the floats. We had fun collecting a handful of candy too.
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Here's a view of the town hall through the parade crowd. This building was so intricately ornate. Seemed to be right out of a fairy tale book.
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Here is Karen down in the Schnoor section of the city. It's in the south eastern part of the old town. It's a small section of really well preserved fishing houses from the 15th - 16th centuries. Now it's mostly small shops and cafes.
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Sunday morning we went for an inside tour of the city hall. It was gorgeous!
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That was our guide in the front. He's telling us here about the stories carved into the wooden spiral staircase. It chronicles the temptations of life that face humans in our path through life, struggling to do what's right in life.
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Here's a doorway to the official greeting room for official guests coming to Bremen. It must have taken YEARS to carve all the stuff in this room.
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Here are some wild wooden faces carved in to a row of benches along one end of this massive ball room. There were so many surfaces carved in this room, it was really astounding!
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Wild, huh!
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This is one of the mirrors that allows you to see a portion of yourself at a time as you walk into the HUGE dining room... first you see your feet, then knees, and up from there. It was designed that way quite specifically.
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Here's Karen in front of a Steiff shop. The Madson's visited Germany a couple times almost 25 years ago, and the Steiff museum we went to back then was pretty impressive.
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There's a restaurant inside this windmill restaurant that sits on top of the old city wall.
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We usually have one really nice meal in each city we visit. We had that meal here in Bremen. We both had venison with shpatzel... it was a GREAT meal! .
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Here's a picture from the outside of St. Peter's Cathedral in Bremen. The initial walls of this place (still standing on the bottom level of the building) were built in the early 11th century.
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We walked in during a choir rehearsal. It was really a treay to hear them practice for a while. The voices in that place just carried incredibly!
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We climbed up one of the towers in the cathedral (267 steps) and got a cool view down on one of the bells.
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One last goodbye picture from outside the beautiful city hall.

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