Bremerhaven & Schwanawede

We’re off to Bremerhaven.
Most of the emigrating Jews left from here and the remainder from Hamburg.
Looking out to the North Sea from the copy of the Dubai ‘Sail’ bldg - a bit smaller and much less opulent of course!
If you’d like to purchase the old lighthouse it’s for sale for 1 Euro (apparently). Needs 1 mill Euro spent on it. It’s a bit like Pisa. Leaning a little. Cute though huh. We walked around the area and watched the loch working.
The big air ship looking bldg is the climate experience - and next door is the Emigration Museum. All done as if you are leaving - on a ship. You go through the experience. Quite well done.
Out front we have as Im sure you’ve guessed - one of the carriages that Jews were crammed in to and shunted off to concentration camps in.
There is quite a lot of reference made in all areas I’ve been - to the treatment of the Jews. Good to see.
Note the plaques on the poles. Great idea - a boat that takes folk out deep sea fishing also does trips taking people out to scatter the ashes of their loved ones. Their details and the scatter coordinates are recorded on those plaques.
On the way back to Bremen (generally at 140 km/hr - Arne drove conservatively - plenty of cars were passing us and some areas have no limit at all), we stopped in at Schwanawede where Arne grew up - next to a forest. Pretty lovely! Thatched roofs etc around that area.
Back in Bremen we went through the rather high end car wash. You go through on a conveyor belt. Excellent value - faultless job, totally unlike our local Z.
I wanted to go in to the pharmacy in town and we were so glad to have done so as it was gorgeous - particularly with the quartet playing.Read more