Lübeck 1 - r.g. photo
1. Lübeck isn’t
particularly large, so it’s easy to explore on foot
2. The
red-brick houses of the UNESCO world-heritage-listed old town have a
wonderfully unique character – the so called Backsteingotik,
or bare-brick Gothic – which is most abundant on the street named
An der Obertrave
3. An interesting, vibrant little Hanseatic city
with colorful little houses which display a slight Scandinavian
influence
4. The choice of marzipan sweets in the parlor of the
Café Niederegger
5. The elegant facades of the villas on Moltke
Strasse
6. Seeing the Buddenbrook house of Thomas Mann, who was
born in Lübeck
7. The Lübeck city hall, which dates from the
thirteenth century
8. The hourly boat trip around the town
center
9. The symbol of the city, the Holsten Gate
10. St.
Mary’s Church (I love Gothic architecture)
1. Walking the
cobbled streets can get tiring after a while
2. Pedestrians have
to watch out – the city it full of cyclists
3. Down by the
riverside it doesn’t always feel entirely safe
4. Apart from the
bars there isn’t much life in the city after dark, and shops shut
early
5. Beside the old buildings there are plenty of ugly
concrete structures put up in the sixties and seventies.
6. A lot
of construction work going on, with all the attendant mess
7.
During the colder months (in contrast to the summer) Lübeck can get
pretty gray and dull, except at Christmas
8. Apart from the old
town, the pedestrian streets and Moltke Strasse there’s nothing
very special about Lübeck – it mostly looks like any other German
city
9. After a few days there isn’t much to see
10. On
weekends the flood of Scandinavian tourists arrives
