Today's excursion took us to the
northern lakes district. Another beautiful day with the temperature
reaching 22. I was trying to figure out how far south we are compared
to London, where the weather has not been that warm. Gave it up
though, not easy to do for this bear of little brain.
Our first stop was at Morten a very
pretty medieval walled village. We were amazed by the age of the
buildings, 1700 and something. Cook was born around the same time,
and here in this village and many others people just like us were
living and working and constructing very substantial buildings. We
had a couple of hours to walk about the old streets and found our way
up onto a high walk that looked over the town. Must have been part of
the battlements defence system, as usual we got chatting to other
tourists, a German couple who like us were second time arounders.As we got to the end of the walk we
could hear music and following the sound discovered that someone was
practicing the organ in the beautiful old church
Back on the bus again we headed to
Neuchatel, literally New Castle. Again situated on a lake. The man
and I wandered around admiring the architecture. Again we found a
beautiful old church, no music this time, its dark blue vaulted
ceiling decorated with thousands of stars.Ornate tombs sat either
side of the alter, and a circular stained glass window muted the
sunlight.
Back on the bus for our last stop,Yverden Les Bain, a
medieval spa town again situated on a lake, well we were in the
northern lake district. There is a castle and cathedral here, but we
were a bit sore-footed by now so we spent our hour and a half sitting
in the shade of a tree in the Japanes Garden enjoying an ice-cream
and a cold drink.
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