For my first evening in Wismar, I walked all around time. I immediately fell in love with the St. Marienkirchturm church. I liked that it was allowed to age, without being as touched up as many others. Nearby, the Wasserkunst, in a market square, had vending tents being slowly removed as the day was ending. I enjoyed the architecture of the town, which reminded me of what I saw in Belgium.
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| A nearby video game store popped up on Google Maps, and I couldn't resist visiting. |
The second day in Wismar was spent doing the laundry at a nearby laundromat, and then trying to survive the 100 degree heat. I did not have air conditioning, but luckily, the room had a mini fridge. Cold orange juice helped me through the day, along with my fans.
Just one hour away, I arrived in Lubeck. The view from my room was extraordinary. On the first day, I walked across the street to see Holstentor, the old city gate. Then I walked east, into town, and headed north, doing a slight zig zag, toward the north gates.
I passed what seemed to be a community garden, with chairs for people.
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| This romanticized medieval man is a walking tour guide. |
After walking around the amazing buildings of the northern part of the city, I walked around the outskirts, along the water.
As I approached the Music and Congresshall, an event venue, the sunset looked beautiful. I tried to line it up with the characters that were atop the building.
The next day I set out east again, toward the center, and this time cut south. There were less interesting sites here, but still enough to keep me interested for the afternoon.
That evening, the woman that I met in Denmark, who I have remained friends with, joined me. The next day we visited the museum inside the Holstentor. What I found the most interesting was that the building was actually incredibly slanted, which I believe might have been due to the wet terrain.
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| You can clearly see how the room is slanted here. |
We stayed on the peninsula with the Music Hall, and continued north until the end. Google Maps reported that there would be an old ship here, but there was not. Instead, we found a fake beach resort that was deserted.
We retraced our route and visited the European Hansemuseum. They only allow twenty people at a time, which meant that we had to wait about forty minutes. Just around the corner was a coffee shop, where I asked the worker to recommend her favorite cake, which I then had. Back at the museum, we took a large, oddly shaped elevator downwards. Downstairs were some unremarkable ruins of the old buildings. The museum was high tech. First, you have to design your ticket with your language and the country and an area of interest. You would then place your ticket at indicated areas, and it would project information in your language. In other areas, placing your ticket would give you information based on the area of interest that you had chosen. Unfortunately, most people seem to be slow readers, which led to a lot of waiting around. Beyond the ticket, you were able to scan a QR code, with your phone, and that gave you access to a series of audio recordings, to play when the museum indicated you should play it. We got fairly bored with the slow pace and skipped the second half.
We walked to the center of town and walked around the uncreatively named Marketplatz Lubeck.
I showed her the route that I took when I viewed the south side of the town. We explored westward, and ran into a synagogue. At first I thought that it was a brewery, as it share that symbol. It was behind bars, with a mobile police station next to it. My friend explained that Jews are still targeted by extremists in the country.
Nearby, on the ground, were the names of four people. She explained that these were the names of people that were taken away during the war(if I remember correctly).
We sat for a while near the water. At some point, the bridge rotated sideways and an old looking ship came through.
We ate dinner at my third Vietnamese restaurant in Germany
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