Windmills

Werner and I simply cannot remember if we've visited a windmill with you. That must mean that we haven't. Mills are important to Bremen - that's exactly where the story of the Bremen Town Musicians starts.  So we have to do that.

There are a couple of windmills in Bremen, but they just stand there and don't do anything even though they are really beautiful. This one downtown is a restaurant; another is a museum.  Nothing wrong with restaurants or museums, but wouldn't it be nice to see one that really works?

We can do that!
 
Worpswede.  Funny name, huh?  You can say it this way:  Vorpsvaeda.  We can get there by boat and take our bikes on the boat.  


Coming up to Worpswede, it looks like this. See the windmill? It's really small, about one-third of the way across the horizon.   Do you see it?

Here it is up close.  The mill doesn't regularly grind the wheat into flour - they only do it on special days.  But it works.  The sails go faster than you can think and it makes a lot of noise since all the gears and such are made of wood.   See the windows?  They're regular windows, so you can guess how big the "sails" are!  Not small.  

The fence is to keep people away from the sails when they're moving, but it looks like a nice porch.  But only when the sails are still.