We woke up early and hit the miniature world in Hamburg, the world's larges model train display. They are still building it, so in a few years it should be twice as big. If you ever go, go early before the crowd really shows up. It was 5-10x bigger than the Chattanooga Choo-choo, if you know that model railroad display. Really nice and worth a couple of hours.
We drove on two giant bridges to get through Denmark, then wandered around in Copenhagen a bit. We saw the famous mermaid statue and some marble church and found a mall for dinner. We ended up just over the border in Malmo, Sweden. Northern Germany, Denmark and Sweden all appear very nice and clean, but everything is also very expensive.
Tonight the Easter bunny comes and tomorrow we head to the real Legolan in Bilund, Denmark.
Pripps Bla- Not too bad. Fairly tasty.
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Danishes with the Danish?
Hamburgers in Hamburg -
Yesterday was Good Friday, so all of Germany heads for the hills on this national holiday. We had decided to cancel our crazy road trip to the Arctic Circle, so we are headed in that direction but not so far. We started off stopping near Stuttgart in Schorndorf, a small town with lots of Fachwerkhauser and their main fountain is decorated with eggs for Easter.
We drove north to Goslar. The countryside was really nice, with nice rolling hills. It looks like Kentucky, or the foothills of the Appalachians where I grew up. We stopped in Goslar, a former seat of the Holy Roman Empire. We also stopped near Hamburg at an artificial ski slope, 300 meters long. Amazing!
We found a good hamburger place in Hamburg, but we had just been forced to stop to eat dinner. When our crew gets hungry, you have to stop very soon or else...
BTW, I always wondered why they put Z rated tires on the Mercedes back home. Those tires are rated for 140 MPH sustained over an hour. Yesterday, we got the car up to 100 MPH sustained for a while on the empty Autobahn, so it is useful in some places.