Getting Moin’ed At

Disclaimer 2: Post has been updated with all appropriate images now.

Disclaimer: The internet at my new city is absolutely beyond miserable, and extremely unreliable, so I have only been able to upload 2 images. I will try again tomorrow to update this post with more images. It just keeps failing at uploading, and even simple images can take minutes to show. Even the TV doesn’t work. All 30 channels are just gray static.

This’ll be another short one. My last day in Kiel! So I finished the things on my to do list for Kiel – The Natural History Museum. A fairly large museum near/part of a university loaded and loaded with skeletons and taxidermies of all kinds animals, from whales, to birds and rodents and deep sea creatures and insects. It was pretty neat and much larger than I expected it to be.

Next was the Kiel Schifffahrtsmuseum (yes, 3 f’s) – another Maritime museum, but hell it was free entry, so why not!? It was pretty small and rather disappointing, but it had a few neat historical artifacts, and a bunch of WW1 and WW2 propaganda posters.

Moin! Moin! Moin! Moin moin! Moin is the standard greeting used by everyone in Northern Germany, particularly in all the beaches and port towns. It’s just a friendly way of saying hello, and is more common than the standard German “Hallo!” or “Guten Tag!” Now that I’m mostly, more or less out of Northern Germany… or at least I’m away from the beach towns, I don’t have to hear this anymore, and now it’s back to Hallo! Then today I secretly took a secret train secretly to a secret new secret city which I’ll secretly reveal tomorrow… secretly. The only thing I really had time for by the time I got here was to go to the local, and giant cemetery, which was neat, and very very foresty. I also did something I haven’t really done yet, which is to walk around town late at night and see the local nightlife. Most shops and restaurants were closed, but most bars and hookah joints were open with people socializing on the patios and lake side. From around 9:30 – 11:00. (Though mostly because the internet has been so terrible.)

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The museum. Elephant skull in the middle there, with a giant Narwal spike, and sawtooth shark spikey tooth sword thing.
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Big whale, with lots of animals on display.
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Big dead squid in the Natural History Museum.
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The nautical museum.
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Broken sword, and pieces of an officer’s gear. Mutinous crews would do this ranking officers to humiliate them.
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Another ship! I’m starting to think Kiel might be a popular place for cruise ships.
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A cool building.
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A building in the secret new secret city I’m secretly in.
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Main shopping street.
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A big ol’ church with the sun washing out a lot of it.
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In the cemetery.
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“It became night, and I dove into the light of the stars” Only 21 years old.
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Teaser for tomorrow. (Now yesterday since this post was delayed.)

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