Maeday Writes: February 2016

I've finally managed to get out and travel around Germany a bit more, going to Luneburg and Bremen for a day. I've had such a great time and am planning several more short trips. Also, please excuse the lack of umlauds in this post.

Bremen has a section of town that is filled with old buildings. I have a great love of old buildings, one that I never realized I had until I came to Europe. It is incredible to see all that history in one place and that's something we don't really have, even in Philadelphia and D.C. we don't have building that compare to the ones here. We spent some time walking around the altstadt, the old part of the city, and appreciating that old building before we headed to the art museum. I was expecting Bremen's art museum to be small and inconsequential, once again I was incorrect. The building did indeed look small from the outside and the first floor seemed to confirm this. And then we went to the second floor. Room upon room on the second floor was filled with amazing art, works by both old masters like Picasso, Monet and Vermeer, and some interesting more modern works. I don't normally like spending large amounts of time in art museums, but I was really pleased by the one in Bremen.

My trip to Luneburg was a lot different than my trip to Bremen. I went with a group from my school, rather than a couple of friends and it was rainy and windy all day. Of course my umbrella broke shortly after was got there and I didn't have a hat or a hood, so I spent the whole day getting rained on.It actually ended up being a ton of fun, even though my hair was soaking wet by the end of the day. We went to a salt museum, because apparently Luneburg is an old salt mine city, as well as a chocolate store and a candy store. The chocolate store made the whole day worth it. They had fantastic hot chocolate and all the chocolate was very high quality.

Photo time!