Hannover
07 to 11 June 2025
Anthony tries, and fails, to ditch Julie at the Duisburg Central station. As you can see, she catches up to him.
On Saturday, Julie and Anthony drove the rental car back to Amsterdam, and caught the train to Hannover. You may ask, “Why Hannover”. Well….
Sunday, 8 June, Julie and Anthony take a bit of a break. They work on the blog and get some washing done. Here are some photos of the neighborhood on the way to dinner.
More aspirational lawncare (at least for Anthony, and the bees and butterflies).
Sleeping Beauty actors at Sababurg Castle
On Monday, we pick up the car and head out on the Fairy Tale road.
We rented a cute little Fiat 500, the convertible top was wasted in the rainy weather.
First Stop, the Sleeping Beauty (Sababurg) Castle. Julie and Anthony arrive just in time for an interpretive reading of the Sleeping Beauty tale.
On to Burg Trendelburg, and a Rapunzel Tower.
We loved these old, timbered houses that have lived a bit. We don’t think they started out crooked, but maybe so.
You can probably guess fairy tale in this statue, located in Hoxter. Hint: Naughty children push sweet old lady into an oven in the end.
Apparently, it’s good luck to rub the witch’s finger, which Julie found mildly troubling. It looks like she’s flipping them off, not urging them over.
Onward to the Burg Polle Schloss, aka the Cinderella Castle.
Apparently, in Germany, Cinderella’s slipper is gold, not glass.
Idyllic country side is one of the reasons we rent a car and make this scavenger hunts.
Munchhausen - Brunnen, birthplace of the real and mythical Baron Munchhausen.
Yeah, Hamlin
Tuesday, more Fairytale road. A second Rapunzel tower in Wilhelmsturm, this time with a nice walk through the woods.
Julie and Anthony visited Promenade Steinhude, on Steinhuder Meer.
Anthony saw this sticker for Altona 93, a local sports club, and really wanted it for the luggage.
It’s Spargelzeit in Neinburg.
Spargel statue at the spargel museum
Dwarf’s Tale in Hoya. Never heard of it.
Musicians of Bremen
Hannover Opera
Anthony walked to the Leibniz memorial, near the University in Hannover. Leibniz, along with Newton, created calculus in the mid to late 1600s, somewhat independently. (Allegedly) Newton got there first, but Leibniz created more usable notation. And Anthony liked Liebniz’ philosophy of Monads.
View from our hotel in Hannover.