Today
we celebrated Deb's birthday in Kiel, another German port. Because it
was an important port during the second world war, it was
comprehensively bombed so the “old town” no longer exists. All of
the buildings in what was the old town originally established in
1230, were rebuilt in the 1950'sincluding the very impressive church
of St. Nikolai.
It
is the access point for Hamburg, several hours away so like Berlin,
we didn't go. Hamburg needs much more than several hours.
There
seems to be a Kyle connection in the city in that there is a Tom Kyle
brauhaus (beer house) right in the centre and
the name of the city in old German is Kyl.
We
had our usual beer of the country before returning to the ship, this
time a Flensburger.
We
also got to sit in one of those ridiculous beach chairs we saw so
many of on the beach at Warnemunde.
Why
would they describe their German Naval Yards in English?
Tomorrow we will be in Denmark at Arrhus.
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