Managed to catch two trains to the right places today, an improvement on a previous trip. However I did cause an obstruction trying to find my seat on the second train. The seat numbers jumped from13 to 33 on the left side, where I was looking, but my number 24 was on the right hand side. Anyway the party ladies helped me get organised and everyone else just thought I was stupid - which was not far wrong.
The party ladies were a group of 11 women coming to Bremen for a long weekend. They were all about the same age so I’m guessing school or university friends.
The weather is cold and drizzly so at least in the trains I wasn’t bothered by the rain. When I arrived in Bremen I nearly went looking for an umbrella to buy but opted for a taxi instead of a longish, wet walk. More rain likely so I still might have to buy one.
After a while the sky cleared and I went for a bit of a walk to check the route into town for tomorrow. There is a beautiful lake which forms a sort of zig zag shape around part of the old town. Lovely walking/riding paths and a couple of cute duck houses in the water. There were still bluebells here and the water Iris on the edge of the water are just about to bloom. I now know how to get to the centre of town through this beautiful parkland.
Had dinner in my hotel and it was delicious. Recently, when I was doing Duolingo, the exercises went on and on about asparagus season and what a big deal it was. Lo and behold, asparagus was on the menu here. Big, fat spears of tender asparagus with a hollandaise sauce. Yum!
And tonight I have a proper sized bed with a mattress that I’m pretty confident will not slide off the bed and try to tip me out. I’m also hopeful that I’ll be able to turn all the lights off, unlike Amsterdam where there was a mirror light, with no switch, which wouldn’t even go off if you took the key card out of its slot.
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