In Munster we visited the Clemenskirche. From the outside we were not sure if we were at the right adress, but inside the decorations are staggering. According to a guide that was on site, the church is only partially open, because it is owned by the city of Munster.
The center of Munster is rebuild to match what it must have looked like before World War 2.
One of the remaining sites, is the Sankt Lamberti Kirche. On the outside you can see the cages in which 3 of the Anabaptist group, that had created their own Theocracy between 1534-1535, where shown to the public, after they had been tortured and excecuted. This wikipedia page has an interesting background story
From Munster we were heading for Hamburg, Luckily, traffic was light and we made some good progress with lots to see on the A1 Autobahn.
It's always nice to know that your hotel is in a gunfree area.
Day 2 we made a nice trip to the Hamburger Kunsthalle.
With a great show on Emil Nolde.
And another special show featured Franz Ludwig Catel. A German painter from the Romantic Period that worked most of his life in Italy and became very celebrated during his lifetime.
So we had more time to spent walking the streets of Downtown Hamburg, towards Speicherstadt. The old warehouse district of Hamburg, that has been restored. Barry and I were a little bit disapointed by it. The building are extremely big and exept for the buildings, really there is not much going on, except, germans working there in their offices.
On of the museums in Speicherstadt is the Prototyp Museum. It has a small but very nice selection of Porsches, VWs and some other more unknown German built racing cars.
Highly recommended by the guide we brought, was this small Tavern. Unfortunately, fully booked.
Day 3 back to the Netherlands. First we had a short stop in Seedorf, where Barry took a trip on memory lane.
Then we drove to Enschede. Here we visited an art exhibition with work from the British Painter William Turner. A rare opportunity, because his work has not been on exhibition often in the Netherlands. It was very busy in this rather small museum . The museum showed work from Turner together with artists that had used the same inspiration or subject. In my opinion, not always to the advantage of the exhibition as a whole.
