Last friday we visited Schwerin, the capital of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
The highlight of Schwerin is its castle, with nice gardens and great views to the lakes surrounding the cityLast friday we visited Schwerin, a city two hours away from Hamburg. We left early, to try to catch the train at 08:30. But, as we wanted to take a ticket that entitles you to travel in all the regional trains of a designated "Bundesland", or Federal State, we had to wait until 09:30 because these tickets are not valid before 09:00. These "Länder-Tickets" are an excellent way to travel and get to know Germany. (http://www.bahn.de/p/view/preise/regional/laendertickets.shtml)
The problem sometimes are the stops you have to do, in order to get to your destiny. I remember once, I travelled from Berlin to Munich, it took me 8 hours, for a trip that with a normal train would have taken perhaps 3 or 4 hours. But I saved more than 50 euro. In this occassion, we had to change twice, once in Lübeck and the other time I just don't remember where. It was interesting, as the last train we took, a Regional train, was crossing the whole Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state, to a small town in Poland, in the border with Germany. In our wagon, there were Polish people, on their way home.
That been said, Schwerin is a city located in what used to be Eastern Germany. You can tell by the look of some of the buildings, only some, as other ones, as the castle above, are been rebuilt. What you will notice, if you are a foreigner as me, is that there are no many foreigners there. Or, put it the other way, here in Hamburg, specially in the center of the city, there are a lot of us. Here in Hamburg you have Portuguese, Turkish, Italians, Polish, Russians, Iranians, Indians, Pakistani, Afghans, Arabs, Africans, Arabs, etc, etc, etc. In Schwerin is not that often that you see non white people. I correct myself then. There might be many foreigners in Schwerin, most of them are perhaps from Eastern Europe.
In fact, we had lunch in a Yugoslavian Restaurant. There might be no Yugoslavia, but the restaurant was there, and the food was excellent!! I ate some meat (sorry Jordi), loads of it. And I regretted it later. I wasn't sick, but I did not feel well. But before the restaurant, we had a walk around. Schwerin is a really nice city. Nothing spectacular like Berlin or München or any other large city in Germany, but its situation, located around lakes, makes it a very nice place to visit.
After the restaurant then, we went to the highlight of Schwerin, the castle "Schweriner Schloss". That's the first photo above. I really liked it and enjoyed it. The place actually houses the seat of the parlament of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and we could listen to some people (politicians maybe?) applaude as we were walking inside. The castle is open to tourism, at least one part of it. You can see some rooms of the ex-owners (no photos allowed, sorry), antique crafts and furniture, old paintings, etc. And then the views from theses rooms. Excellent and beautiful views. As the last photo above.
Afterwards, we walked around, in some of the gardens. The weather was not particularly good, but we still could enjoy the walk. Later on, we went to downtown again, and we had some ice cream. My wife was in the mood for an ice cream she had seen in an Italian gelateria.
We left then for Hamburg.
The problem sometimes are the stops you have to do, in order to get to your destiny. I remember once, I travelled from Berlin to Munich, it took me 8 hours, for a trip that with a normal train would have taken perhaps 3 or 4 hours. But I saved more than 50 euro. In this occassion, we had to change twice, once in Lübeck and the other time I just don't remember where. It was interesting, as the last train we took, a Regional train, was crossing the whole Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state, to a small town in Poland, in the border with Germany. In our wagon, there were Polish people, on their way home.
That been said, Schwerin is a city located in what used to be Eastern Germany. You can tell by the look of some of the buildings, only some, as other ones, as the castle above, are been rebuilt. What you will notice, if you are a foreigner as me, is that there are no many foreigners there. Or, put it the other way, here in Hamburg, specially in the center of the city, there are a lot of us. Here in Hamburg you have Portuguese, Turkish, Italians, Polish, Russians, Iranians, Indians, Pakistani, Afghans, Arabs, Africans, Arabs, etc, etc, etc. In Schwerin is not that often that you see non white people. I correct myself then. There might be many foreigners in Schwerin, most of them are perhaps from Eastern Europe.
In fact, we had lunch in a Yugoslavian Restaurant. There might be no Yugoslavia, but the restaurant was there, and the food was excellent!! I ate some meat (sorry Jordi), loads of it. And I regretted it later. I wasn't sick, but I did not feel well. But before the restaurant, we had a walk around. Schwerin is a really nice city. Nothing spectacular like Berlin or München or any other large city in Germany, but its situation, located around lakes, makes it a very nice place to visit.
After the restaurant then, we went to the highlight of Schwerin, the castle "Schweriner Schloss". That's the first photo above. I really liked it and enjoyed it. The place actually houses the seat of the parlament of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and we could listen to some people (politicians maybe?) applaude as we were walking inside. The castle is open to tourism, at least one part of it. You can see some rooms of the ex-owners (no photos allowed, sorry), antique crafts and furniture, old paintings, etc. And then the views from theses rooms. Excellent and beautiful views. As the last photo above.
Afterwards, we walked around, in some of the gardens. The weather was not particularly good, but we still could enjoy the walk. Later on, we went to downtown again, and we had some ice cream. My wife was in the mood for an ice cream she had seen in an Italian gelateria.
We left then for Hamburg.
View of the stairs of the Schwerin Castle in Germany
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