In the morning I took subway ride a ways north to a town called Kaiserswerth (kaisers – vare – t). There is a neat historical totally ruined 1000 year old remnants of an old castle called Kaiserpfalz. It’s not super huge and amazing but it was cool. Just neat ruins on the Rhine. There were a few signs explaining where and what things were.

So once again (after returning from the ruins) the train to my next stop was delayed, though this time by the disarming of a bomb left over from “Welt Krieg 2” presumably found near the tracks, though a ways south near Cologne. Not only did the train schedule app say this, they also announced it was delayed by an aircraft’s bomb in the PA at the station. They still find about 1 bomb a month, and alllll construction sites are always bomb checked beforehand. The last time WW2 bombs had killed was back in 1992, to 3 unlucky construction workers. (I could be wrong but that’s what I remember.) Anyways, they said the train would be delayed by 30 mins. The app said it would be 35 minutes. It arrived in Düsseldorf 40 minutes late and arrived at my next stop exactly 60 minutes late. Come on Deutsche Bahn, let’s get it together here.

I don’t have a whole lot of cities left, but I am already glad I picked the city-state of Bremen. 3 cities in Germany are their own state, the other 2 being Berlin and Hamburg. I don’t know really anything except the city is has certainly existed since the medieval era, it definitely shows. In the old town  (by now it was getting fairly late at night) there is a really cool Rennaissance faire type thing going on, old wooden shops, and people dressed like knights and peasants, from pantaloons, to hoods cloaks and tabards. One stall even has little cross bows and stands and you gotta shoot little figures off the big castle, how neat…and brutal. Another stall was for wood carvings, and another had dozens of baskets with vials and old style glasses of (alcoholic) drinks with signs saying they are cures and remedies for various things, (different flavors of drinks, not actually trying to sell new age stuff, it was all in the medieval theme and fun).

Though the faire also had some modern shops, and Alpine/Oktoberfest themed ones with a couple rides.