Mercure Bremen Colombus 3m

... the lard/fat stuff on the table was for.

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!

... was really nice. Norbert loves it there after leaving Bavaria. He showed me some really old very cool small streets, the church, the river, the market, fairy tale sculptures based in Bremen, the rooster, cat, dog, and the donkey. It was really cool and it was really nice to see, I actually was quite pleased with Bremen. So after eating a schnitzel at the market we headed back to our work place to play a game of chess and then I caught a train to Hamburg.

... cute. The centre has lots of old buildings that are pretty. It also has a area that has all little windy streets which is pretty cool. Oh yeah, Becks beer is also from this area and they have a brewery here,

I really have just wandered around the town and rested up as I needed a bit if a break before heading up to Scandinavia in the next few days. This was a nice little town to do that in - aside from the excessive rain today it has been pretty good.

... them the night is still young and we'll see them in class tomorrow...

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 ...

... around for 2 hrs we stumbled upon an Irish pub and paid 4.10 euro for a perfect 42 degree Guinness.

it was worth every penny...

after the beverage. we caught the second to last bus back to the hotel. all is well and the weekend plans to Dublin a shaping up. St James Gate here i come.

... pay, I mistakenly ended up cutting in front of somebody and got reprimanded in German. Not knowing how to apologize, I made a conciliatory hand motion and the most sincere "eek" face I could manage, but he finished paying and then I paid without further incident. I should learn to express "I'm sorry" in German. Because pantomime was a little rediculous.

The rest of the afternoon was fun, and even though it was only "Day 1" I spent it in lab! The postdoc from earlier and a female ...

... and something that looked suspiciously like a biergarten...There were also hoards of peaceful cyclists and joggers and sunbathers, but I think Bergerpark was surely a forest originally...it's really lush and beautiful, however we got lost on some the many braided pathways. After a very tricky mime act with a nice older German couple, they kind-of pointed us in the direction of town (still 2 km away....) and we kept going. Ehh, eventually we made it to the Hauptbahnhof ...

... taste appeared sour creamy, but had chunks of other stuff, most notably cheese mixed into it. And then there was the spoon. Almost teaspoon sized but not quite. It occurred to me that there might be some connection between the spoon and the potato, but it was beyond my limited American experience. Not wanting to appear a complete fool by asking the ...

... I think of all the places that I could have stayed in Bremen, I could have easily spent the whole day listening to the carillon there. It was so beautiful! After spending quite an amount of time listening to it and looking around, we headed off to find somewhere to eat! I had completely forgotten that Beck's was brewed in Bremen so of course, we found a restaurant called the Beck's Bistro and during our lunch (and me enjoying a good Beck's Gold!) we decided to ...

... in Seacroft had taken several house roofs with it that same afternoon. I rolled through Scrooby, Nottinghamshire passing a camp site at about 6pm. Surely there'd be another one and I could probably manage another hour - I needed to make up some time. I slowed as some traffic lights turned red. The bike came to a stand still but I hadn't unclipped and fell to the floor del-boy-on-a-bike-style as a car pulled up along side. Play ...