I began writing this blog entry in the hotel parking lot because that was the only place I could get T-Mobile internet access at the Deutsches Haus Hotel in Braunschweig. The hotel has its own internet system, which seemed like a fairly bad deal from the information we could get from the relatively unhelpful staff. When we finally did purchase 24 hours of access, we were first told that it was one-time use only. Then the woman said we could log on and off, but only on one machine. In fact the system allows 24 hours of accumulated use over a 3 month period on multiple machines. If the woman at the desk had not been so unhelpful, I need not have spent my time in the parking lot.
On Monday we explored Braunschweig. The photo below is from a wooden statue of St. Blaise.
Yesterday we used the Deutsche Bahn's Call-a-Bike system to rent two bicycles for the day. The system works easily. You register online, then phone with a mobile phone to get the code to unlock the bike of your choice, and you call again when you want to return it. Our bikes are in the picture below -- at a bike-stand in Wolfenbüttel.
The weather report for the day said 30% chance of rain, mainly after 5.00 pm. We ran into rain at about 11.00 am in the most exposed part of our route. Happily it was not in an area where we had to consult the map regularly, or the map would have turned into a soggy mess. We both had rain gear with us too.
The town of Wolfenbüttel itself was bigger and prettier than expected. The photo shows were we ate lunch (under the awnings at the right).
The Schloss (castle) was pretty too. It is now partly a museum, partly a school.
The ride back took us through a number of suburbs of no great interest.
A note from back when we were in Hannover: we had some trouble with wasps whenever we sat out at cafes. Neither of us finds wasps very alarming, so we watched as they crawled on the edge of our beer or juice glasses. Then one poor wasp slipped and fell directly into my beer. He struggled but could not get out. I had no spoon to rescue him (and didn't want to risk putting my finger in his way). We called the waiter, who just replaced the beer (and brought covers for our glasses).
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