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Saturday 31st May
We got a lift into town & caught the 8.15 bus to Hamburg, a 2 hour ride on the autobahns, which are in excellent condition in contrast to the autostradas of Italy. The countryside is very neat & green but is so flat. Arriving at the bus station we headed for the MK & G museum, a huge building nearby.
This is a cross between the V & A & the British Museum in London & it turned out to be a real find as it covers a huge, eclectic range of items in some excellent galleries. By chance the first gallery we visited had a collection of keyboard instruments from early harpsichords right through to a Hammond & an early Yamaha organ. It also included a series of exhibits showing how the complex action involved in striking the strings in pianos developed. There was another gallery of other musical instruments which again was again very comprehensive.
After a well earned coffee we explored other galleries including a Japanese one & a series of furnished rooms from the turn of the century through to the 30s illustrating the development of design of more practical & less ornate furnishings. Some of the rooms were quite stunning & we particularly liked some of the design work done for AEG in the 20s & 30s. On to a section on 20th century fashion which showed its development.
In contrast it also had galleries of religious artefacts, the Etruscans, the Greeks & the Romans, which included some excellent pieces. We moved on, as Dick's knees needed a rest but we felt we didn’t do it justice.
Next we caught a hop on hop off bus which took us around parts of the city, which at 1.7 million is the second largest in Germany. What a tour it was.
Starting along the edge of a large lake full of yachts racing & pleasure boats we passed the most expensive houses in the city & pretty smart they were too. Most were in their own grounds overlooking the lake & the views would be great, a cross between Mayfair & St John’s Wood overlooking water. Then through the old town past the banking quarter & through the famous Reeperbahn which looks somewhat seedy in daylight & down to the port area. Here we saw 2 huge floating dry-docks & across the water QE2 which appeared to be in dry-dock also. The bus returned to the station past an area being redeveloped on a huge scale to recycle some other dock areas.
Leaving the bus we had an excellent lunch of sausages, sauerkraut & mashed potato washed down with a beer, before catching our bus back to Oldenburg after another hard day’s sightseeing.
We got a lift into town & caught the 8.15 bus to Hamburg, a 2 hour ride on the autobahns, which are in excellent condition in contrast to the autostradas of Italy. The countryside is very neat & green but is so flat. Arriving at the bus station we headed for the MK & G museum, a huge building nearby.
This is a cross between the V & A & the British Museum in London & it turned out to be a real find as it covers a huge, eclectic range of items in some excellent galleries. By chance the first gallery we visited had a collection of keyboard instruments from early harpsichords right through to a Hammond & an early Yamaha organ. It also included a series of exhibits showing how the complex action involved in striking the strings in pianos developed. There was another gallery of other musical instruments which again was again very comprehensive.
After a well earned coffee we explored other galleries including a Japanese one & a series of furnished rooms from the turn of the century through to the 30s illustrating the development of design of more practical & less ornate furnishings. Some of the rooms were quite stunning & we particularly liked some of the design work done for AEG in the 20s & 30s. On to a section on 20th century fashion which showed its development.
In contrast it also had galleries of religious artefacts, the Etruscans, the Greeks & the Romans, which included some excellent pieces. We moved on, as Dick's knees needed a rest but we felt we didn’t do it justice.
Next we caught a hop on hop off bus which took us around parts of the city, which at 1.7 million is the second largest in Germany. What a tour it was.
Starting along the edge of a large lake full of yachts racing & pleasure boats we passed the most expensive houses in the city & pretty smart they were too. Most were in their own grounds overlooking the lake & the views would be great, a cross between Mayfair & St John’s Wood overlooking water. Then through the old town past the banking quarter & through the famous Reeperbahn which looks somewhat seedy in daylight & down to the port area. Here we saw 2 huge floating dry-docks & across the water QE2 which appeared to be in dry-dock also. The bus returned to the station past an area being redeveloped on a huge scale to recycle some other dock areas.
Leaving the bus we had an excellent lunch of sausages, sauerkraut & mashed potato washed down with a beer, before catching our bus back to Oldenburg after another hard day’s sightseeing.
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Alison Durham I wonder if the yachts etc you mentioned were at Kiel as Ben has sailed there several times and I remember him talking about Kiel in Germany. The sausages in Germany. are yummy especially washed down with their beer.