Well, it is our last night in Deutschland and yesterday I finally figured out where Einbahn Strasse (street) is. Every little village and major street had Einbahn streets and all larger stadts had more than one Einbahn Strasse. Hmm… I started thinking, is it Einstein? The Germans like to name streets after famous persons such as Mozart and Beethoven. Boy was I wrong! Einbahnstrasse means one way street! It would have been helpful for Gary when he was driving the wrong way on Einbahnstrasse! 🙂 No politzei! I have been taking many sign pictures (for you Christeen). Gary would not stop so I could get a picture of Ausfahrt on the autobahn. Ausfahrt means exit. I have exit signs from 3 countries. I do have a departure sign from the train station and an exit sign from Stockholm. 
My favorite sign was on a little back road in Germany that said !and a picture of a frog. We did not know if there were giant mutant frogs on the highway, or beware of frogs crossing the highway. Unfortunately, or fortunately, we did not see any giant frogs and no more beware of frog signs! Gary’s favorite sign was the bier sign. Since we are in Bremen and the Beck’s brewery is in Bremen, the only beer available at all the pubs are all the varieties of Beck’s beer.
So we sampled the Beck’s and the Rotwien from Wurttenberg, Germany, which is the only place that makes a trochen (dry) red wine. We thought we were done looking at churches and cathedrals that were converted into Lutheran churches until we saw St. Peter’s Cathedral in Bremen. What intrigued Gary was that he thought there was a Svenska buried in the cellar at St. Peter. We looked throughout the cathedral and even went to the still room where you must be silent and found many commemorating stones, yet no Svenska. Later we learned that the Svenska was buried in the cellar of the Church of Bremen which is around the corner from the cathedral. As we were returning from a successful day of shopping in the little artist community of Schnoor, we saw a bier bicycle. The bicycle had a keg and about 12 seats, a table and all the passengers needed to pedal the bicycle. It is hard to explain, so here is a picture. 
 The keg is hidden and at the left end of the bicycle. One of the highlights for Gary of our shopping day (my shopping day–it is just not right to spend more money to go to the bathroom than to shop!) was the cuban cigar and 10 year old Aberlour Scotch in 50ml bottles. So we are preparing to leave Deutschland and my German accent behind and are heading to Amsterdam in the morning. So after a typical German breakfast of yoghurt, muesli, brawt (bread), and hard boiled eggs, we will trekk the 3km to the bahnhof (train station) and take the train to Amsterdam.
Exit Germany! This is an exit sign from Stockholm.
Shnoor district and one of the narrow streets.
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