Hello everyone!
So, how are you? I know, I know, it was a life that does not update the blog ... now I will try to aged a bit 'of excuses for my shortcomings, you pretend to believe it ... First
for almost two weeks Barbara has come to Bremen and obviously do not spend your free time to write the blog ... Second home can no longer to have an internet connection, and write it all off-line and then send "deferred" makes me spend some 'stimulus ...
In reality we never had it, but until August 20 to 25 stuck a wireless network without security, which we all happily took advantage ... now the guy that owns or has made smart, or just stopped work ... boh ...
But we come to tell if all stoned as usual you should take a whole afternoon to be in the full, then I will a great synthesis of two trips, telling you something when Barbara was here and we went on a trip to Hamburg and Schwerin (that was his gift for my birthday) and I made the trip with my classmates ... in Bremerhaven And so the thing is already pretty long, so get ready and make yourself comfortable ...
Schwerin and Hamburg
Are you wondering what and where is ... first of Schwerin were definitely wrong pronunciation, should be read with the "sh" as in "ski", w reads like our "v" and the accent is on the last syllable ... "Scverìn", in other words ....
Apart from this digression on the etymology worries, the bulk of the description of this town you have just by looking at the photos. It 's a city east of Hamburg, a feature especially for the huge lake on which it overlooks, called it Schwerinersee ("the sea of \u200b\u200bSchwerin," Okay, this was easy ...).
The city is still very nice, some things have been rebuilt after the bombing, there is a so-called "castle" on a small island on the lake. We visited, fortunately the visit was cheap (if I remember correctly about 2.50 for us poor students ...) because the inside is not that it was so exciting. All covered in wood, but virtually all of the decorations instead of being carved and painted stucco were the colors of the wood ... and the great thing is that you also put to say, almost boasting that they were fillers ....
floors are beautiful, majestic single room, with a lot of marble (Carrara, of course) ... Much more interesting however the gardens around the castle and those on the other side (connected by bridge to the castle), I will not describe them much, because they speak far better photos ...
instead strongly advise against moving to Schwerin on a Friday night, we were desperately looking for a bit 'of life, but there was really nothing for them ... I hope that the Sabbath is different, or that life and from all 'else and we have not gone ... But we have folded up a brewery that made beer (own production) really good, and obviously the pitcher is done to enrich my collection ... :)
not recommend even more to take the cruises on the lake! We did Saturday morning e. .. that sucks! Thank goodness we did the shorter (and cheaper). Loved the trip in nature, for goodness sake ... but an hour and a half of water and green banks ... besides the fact that he also began to do cold, cold of course the Germans faced, smiling in a short sleeved polo ...
We must say that we ate very well, a lot less money than we spent in Italy, also the hotel was fantastic ... even if Barbara would have something to say if I had to go back, not for the hotel in itself, but for those who work there ...
different story, however, Hamburg!
As you arrive by train (Saturday afternoon) along the pedestrian shopping street and we are literally overwhelmed by a wave of people running through the streets of chickens and we feel for not having run away from the first Schwerin (instead of making that trip up ,,,).
We head to the hotel and travel on foot facendocela we realize that our guide on the map of Hamburg has a slightly different scale from that of Schwerin ... Apart from the long walk, we also have the unpleasant surprise of finding ourselves with a double bed instead of a ... As compensation we just get breakfast for the next morning, a few things ...
good thing to have found the shops: I bought the sneakers! To many it will seem insignificant, but those who practice my sport knows how to find a break in Turin and above what they cost here ... I made up some good nike at 50 €! Really cool, it was also the last surviving number ...
Apart from that shopping, I will devote my description to the thing that struck me when visiting Hamburg: The Cathedral of St. Nikolai ... or at least what remains of it. The bell
blackened by fire, in fact, is the only part left standing after the bombings of World War II. E 'was in fact decided not to rebuild the church and leave it in memory of the destruction caused by war and as a monument in honor of peace ... What can I say, being there really is a feeling difficult to describe and I will not even try to do here on a blog ... I'm just finding that there was almost forced to sit for a moment and reflect on what might have been found there in those moments ...
One thing that has miraculously remained intact despite the bombing is the Rathaus (which was then the town hall, this was harder ...), a very imposing building, very nice inside. Should you go to Hamburg, I recommend you to visit Wizard (in Inglese, of course ...), it's worth it!
fun to tell: Saturday we had already noticed the fact preparing to put hurdles in the street and the gazebo in the center was dedicated to cycling, then we realized that there was something like our stratorino, however, made the whole bike, which would not have seen much absurd as there is Are you a cyclist. Sunday the city are blocked with traffic all day and go see different groups of cyclists, apparently divided into the categories, from true amateurs and reaching people who seemed fit enough ... Going forward all day thing and given the discomfort every time he had to cross a street, Barbara and I often we get down to comments like: "But still? But how many they go? "," Stop, but the end 'sti Sunday cyclists? "and the like ... Passing the finish line we also joked: "Should we stop? We look forward to cheer a few sprints to get that 200th Big Belly? ".
Only in the late afternoon, watching a giant screen that projected images of the race, we realized that at that time was the same route path by professionals ... and we have seen more on the projector's arrival, with our Ballan who crossed the finish line, with Bettini finished fourth (I think) ... yes, that same goal in front of which we had passed the first quarter of an hour when there were few people and when we said our beautiful lines above ...
's return to Bremen, I discovered that this victory was of course on the first page of the Gazette on-line ... and what we saw was the preparation for the race (I can not remember the name) but is a classic of cycling, like our Milano-Sanremo, but concentrated on Hamburg ...
I hope that no lover of cycling are reading these lines, otherwise authorizes him to come here and fill the rod ....
Come on, I'll be brief here, I swear, Bremerhaven is a city founded as a port for Bremen in the late nineteenth century. Indeed Bremen had the port on the River, the Weser, but given its progressive silting have had to build one directly on the North Sea, around which is just sort Bremerhaven.
This port was one of the main places of emigration from the late nineteenth to mid twentieth century, especially to America. We then went to see a museum dedicated to the history of emigration, very interesting!
Every visitor is assigned a character, which are discovered during the visit of life, the reason for the trip, etc ... I was lucky enough to hit one, that Erich Koch-Weser, German politician who had to emigrate with the rise to power of the Nazis and ended up in Brazil where he founded a small German colony, I say lucky because he was rich enough to afford the first class. The visit represented a variety of situations typical of travel by boat from that period ... Eventually you discover something on the descendants of your character and you can also trace the travels of relatives who emigrated to America, not only from Germany! In fact a friend of mine was able to print a copy of your boarding pass of his grandfather left for America from Naples in the first half of the twentieth century!
last part of the visit, a marine zoo ... I am profoundly opposed to the zoo, I'm sorry to see the animals in habitats too small ... In fact I was very torn between my hatred the zoo and my love for animals ... In the end curiosity won him the second part of me, so I had the opportunity to see a polar bear in particular (no, not had puppies, Knut is only in Berlin ...), complete with the seal pup, a family of raccoons (too cool, I want one!) and two cougars, among other things, a baby does not know what animal (maybe a wolf, or perhaps Fox, boh ...) who enjoyed bite your finger through the grille ... Maybe he wanted to eat, but still having small teeth was so cute ...
On a flight to Turin
Well, I think I was too wordy but I hope not too boring ... I am writing these lines on the plane that is taking me to Monaco, where they take another one to come to Turin! Yes, I am a weekend in Turin, but I think a bit 'all those who read it already know and then come back Sunday night in the cold Germany ...
last sentence on the return flight from Torino (Turin-Frankfurt): put it all online Monday morning, these days in Turin I had the whole 'being willing to stay on the internet ...
soon I'll tell you some anecdotes about Bremen, fantastic on my athletic training, our experience of "MosquitoBusters" and other fun stuff ...
Stay Tuned!
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