Got to the city fine and walked from the Hauptbahnhof which is never as far as it appears on google maps,as I got to the guest house two ladies were leaving and said “no no full!” I tried to explain I had booked but they insisted and the one called the manager and reiterated “ no,full” then they drove off…I decided to call myself,got a garbled reply then the phone went dead but I got a message asking my name,told them and luckily got a thumbs up response…phew.
Now I’m just waiting for him to turn up before the Polizei do to start asking me probing questions…got a phone call from him giving me directions to open the key press,finally I can get in…nope,the key press is empty.Meanwhile a fella comes in,rings the fella and gets his key immediately.They obviously spoke about me( he was German) and said his wife was coming with the key for me but then he rang saying to try another key press and bingo there were keys.Oh and then his wife turned up with the keys to the original room!
Anyway I have found a bar…
Not seen much of Lübeck yet.What I have seen looks old & historic but will check it out more tomorrow.What with the travelling,messing about with keys and still trying to process the senseless untimely death of a recent Wolves here Diogo Jota it’s been a pig of a day.Heading back to the hotel soon for an early night…
Anyway had a good night‘s kip and a quick reccy on what’s close by,as we established there’s a nursery & a bus stop and that’s about it.The area is very residential but only a ten minute walk from the city centre so no problem…not gonna bother mentioning last night’s shenanigans if I do a review of the place( sometimes I write one) from what I gather it’s a new venture and they don’t need negativity over something that was solved fairly easily etc shit happens blah blah blah…
Lübeck is an Island City.The fairly big city is enclosed entirely by water( just Incase you were struggling with the concept of what an island is) and that very thing makes it as medieval as hell…they do love a double church tower here,seems to be loads of them…
Obviously it was bombed extensively during the war but mostly it‘s been lovingly restored to what I can imagine is it’s former glory,even to the extent of building a whole new TK Maxx from scratch…
Managed to find the craft shop,independent cafe arty farty area of Lübeck.Usually I decry these parts of towns but in reality I feel quite at home in these areas.The beard & growing hair give me the aura of the struggling artist I feel…I have noticed on strolling around that about half the people approximately my age are either in wheelchairs or using walking aids.For once I feel pretty healthy even if it’s only by default…
Did that thing of looking out the window,seeing clear blue skies and thought “ well that’s shorts & t- shirt weather “ without thinking I’m next to the Baltic Sea which is practically Scandinavia just one stop from the bloody North Pole…it’s not freezing by any stretch but neither is it shorts & t-shirt weather…
That’s about it for today lads & lasses.Laters all…
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