New Bikes

Hey Hunter and Hannah!  Here are your "new" bikes!  You know the ones you had before got too small since you got bigger, so we got "new" ones.

Good grief!  What is Werner doing?  Does he know what he's doing?  We sure hope so!  Actually, you two are going to have the cleanest and smoothest running bikes in Bremen, I think!

Kenley is safe since we're borrowing a bike from our friend for Kenley.  Werner isn't allowed to take that one apart!

Heligoland

It's an island. Yes, it is.  Helgoland in German, Heligoland in English.  It's up in the North Sea.

It belongs to Germany, but it has some roots in the Scandinavian countries, too.  It's very small and only takes a couple of hours to walk around the whole place.  That means it takes longer to get there and back than it does to see it all!

There are some pretty neat things to see - probably the most famous is Long Anna - maybe she should be called LongTall Anna.  It's a stone formation off one end of the island and they seem to forever worry that it won't stand after the next storm.  But it does.  And there are some beaches where you can swim and lots of folks go and camp there in the summer.

Quite frankly, I can't imagine staying there so very long.  I think I would get Island Fever.  If you don't know what that is, look it up!  

Do you think it's worth a trip? 

Paris Sights

Here's something you might see in Paris at the Louvre, but then again you may not!

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Kraxelmaxel

Huh?  Well, if you live in Bavaria, it's Kraxel, but if you live in Bremen, it's Klettern.  I know Klettern:  it means "to climb."

Remember that picture of Werner swinging from the trees?  There's a Climbing Park like that near Oldenburg where they have all kinds of things strung between trees and you can climb and swing and walk way over the ground.  Kids from age 6 are allowed to do it, so you all qualify.  I suppose even old geezers like us can do it.  

Looks cool to me.   Are you interested??

Strawberry Fields

It seems there's a strawberry lover (or more) in the group.  And wouldn't you know, it'll be strawberry season when you're here!


I know that you can get strawberries almost the whole year there in Florida, but not here in Germany.  We have to wait for Mother Nature to warm things up before we get fresh - and good - strawberries.

These are strawberries we bought at the market yesterday.  They're from south Germany.  And I have to say they tasted really really good on the French toast this morning.


We can Erdbeeren selbst pflucken bei Asendorfs (pick your own strawberries at Asendorf's) (German looks very strange sometimes, doesn't it?).  It's a big farm near here where they grow them and it's not too far to bike. There's a cool store at the farm too where you can buy their own sausages and cheese and butter and such.  Even look at the animals. 

And if we get tired of picking, we can just buy some at the strawberry stand.  Either way they taste really good.