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

And most importantly the Niederegger store (where we found all things marzipan).

Unfortunately we weren’t able to tour the factory to see where they make all that yummy almond paste and shape it into everything from potatoes to fish to the Luebeck Tuer, but that just gives us a reason to go back.

It is also unfortunate that we won’t be able to bring back any marzipan as we are going to eat all of it.

(Just kidding. But really, it’s definitely the best smelling thing in our luggage.)

From Luebeck we went up to the coast to a town called Groemitz. Here we had lunch and some fantastic gebrannte Mandeln (warm sugared almonds). It was a beautiful day, but a tiny bit chilly.

On the way back to Hammoor, both Jonathan and I slept most of the way.

Then Anne let us take a little nap at her house before meeting some friends to go Kegeln (Kegeln is similar to bowling, but the pins are on strings and there are only nine of them and they are set in a different configuration. (Check out our video of Kegeln soon.) We got to meet some of Anne’s friends, and we had a great time. Our new Kegeln friends bought us tiny bottles of schnapps to congratulate us on our marriage.