On the 24th, we went into the town of Bad Zwischenahn, which is kind of a quiet little village in the wintertime and a well-visited lake/resort town in the summertime. (For those of you living in Colorado, who have been to Estes Park in both summer and wintertime, you know what we are talking about.)
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While Bad Zwischenahn is a nice town, we felt we saw the majority of it in under 30 minutes, so we took the train through Oldenburg (since we had been there the day previous), and went into the fabled town of Bremen.

If you haven't read the story of the Bremen Town Musicians (by the Brothers Grimm), you should. It's not the highlight of the Brothers' Grimm's tales, but is a fun and short read.

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Today, Carrie and I left from our wonderful time in Hammoor with Anne Link.

We traveled by train from Hamburg to Bad Zwischenahn, where Carrie's family picked us up.

Many people are surprised when we tell them that Carrie still has family in Germany. But...

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Today we went into Hamburg. Jonathan and I were fortunate once again to have Anne as our guide. I was still feeling quite tired, and found it sort of hard to focus still from our all-nighter a few nights ago. But I was still excited for the day that would come. On our way there we stopped by this castle in Ahrensburg.

We walked around the garden and took a quick peek inside.

From here we took the subway into Hamburg.

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Our flight from Stansted left at 6:30am and we arrived in Lubeck (which is marketed by Ryan Air as Hamburg - an hour away) at 9:00am. After our sleepless night, Jonathan didn't really seem to feel the effects too much, but I did. I tried to sleep on the plane, but while I am an excellent car sleeper, my plane sleeping skills need some work still.

Once we met up with Anne Link, she took us into Lubeck to have a look around. We had breakfast together at a fun café, and then went to see the sights. We saw a church that the devil helped build,

The Lubeck Tuer

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