Hilton Bremen Hotel

... the lard/fat stuff on the table was for. <br><br>We walked around some more, past another square area. We found the famous statue of the Donkey, Dog, Cat and Rooster near the town hall. The statue is from the Brothers Grimm tale of The Town Musicians. We never made it to the harbor or to the Universum Bremen science center since we had to get back for an event in Braunschweig. It was a fun day and I will definitely go back to explore more, maybe with a better plan for the day!

... br><br>So after once it hit about 830 and the light was out I packed up and started walking again towards our office in Bremen, it actually was really close. Google Maps had its first bad experience; it made me walk 5 blocks down, 3 blocks up, 3 blocks back to the wrong address. I knew the correct one from an email from Sven. I put this address in and Google maps took me to the wrong place but correct road to I kept walking to the correct address and ...

What can I say - I really love Germany and this little town is no exception. Actually stayed here a couple of nights mainly to catch up on emails and sleep. This is a cute little town that is most well known for its travelling musicians of Bremen which is a rooster atop the cat atop the dog who is standing on the donkey (apparently they were scaring robbers who invaded their house). They have a statue of this in the centre of town. Aside from this the town is ...

... them the night is still young and we'll see them in class tomorrow...<br><br>the experience as a whole has been an awesome learning experience, getting to know German culture has been a mind boggling process. i must say it is refreshing to know that cultures can collide and at least for the night we are all the same. we speak different languages, come from different places and don't always understand each other, the human ...

so today, around 5pm... local time we all did a bit of pregaming and around 8 we decided to go to a bar that has shots for a euro a piece.. along the way we stopped to get a doner, that's 3/3 for anyone keeping track at home... well Eric and i went to find the Euro Bar without much success.. after ...

... appear and then that was it: I went to go eat.<br><br>I met my group at their meeting place and we grabbed a table on the 3rd floor of the mensa. Most of the conversation was in German, so I people watched around the nearby tables and tried to start training my ears to hear German (they don't, I cannot pick out words, but I'll give it time). I noticed that my lunchmates all ate rather quickly, did not drink during the meal, and completely cleaned their plates.<br><br>When you're done eating ...

... well-displayed) and rode back to our apartment. It was a rather quick ride compared to the walk, barely a few minutes! Though our only mistake was that we didn't realize that you have to press a "stop" button on the tram once your stop is announced. Otherwise....they keep on going. We ended up about 2 stops past where we were supposed to be, but we just walked sheepishly to the other side of the deserted platform, and hitched a ride back in the opposite direction ...

... that the red line indicated on the map (for the tour) was actually painted right onto the pavement too, so you didn´t have to follow the map much, except to read about the sites. most striking was a hollow, destroyed church, a relic from World War II bombings. After that, we enjoyed a nice train ride to Bremen, the city of the animal musicians! We had booked this hostel ages ago, and expected that there would be no problems. but, when we got there, they didn´t have our booking and ...

... not to mention that i may have forgotten moments, but I hope you get a picture of what kind of experience we are having! anyway, at the moment I am still sitting at Chami's house, supposed to have left much earlyer in the day (its now 4pm) it takes ages to write all this, and I guess we will run out of light before we arrive at the hitching spot we picked to exit Bremen. Still, we are going to ask Chami if we can crash a single ...

... on where to go in the city. I like I like Bremen already. After finding the hostel we proceed to a park underneath a windmill and had a smoke. Another great night of travelling. After a few drinks the night before, it was time to wake up and explore the city. We went down through the historic sections of town and marvelled at the architecture and walked the narrow streets. We then had lunch overlooking a main square and enjoyed people ...