Hameln-Hamburg-Lubeck

After leaving Cologne, we visited Hameln, (commonly known as Hamelin) the town with its famous legend of the Pied Piper. The town has some beautiful old buildings many built between 1500-1600. We arrived at the right time to experience the world famous Pied Piper open air performance which is on every Sunday between mid May and mid September. The story of the procession of the Hameln children was performed by 80 actors.

                                             

                         

                         

Then we travelled on to Hamburg and luckily for us, there was a wine and food market on in the centre of the city for 2 weeks and we wandered there from our hotel for some dinner. Had some delicious German food and wine and listened to traditional German music. Across from our hotel was this enormous bunker that was built for WW2, it has been converted into some sort of college but also has a nightclub in the basement (no noise complaints from the residents because of the thick walls).

                        

                        

                        

On our way to Berlin, we visited Lubeck where the old part of town is on an island. Another very pretty little town where we just loved wandering around discovering places.