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Friday : back to Emden Sightseeing

Friday morning dawned and the the first part of the day was supposed to be spent driving to Greetsiel to meet up with the boats. However our Erhard had other things in mind. A visit to the Leaning Church of Suurhusen was on the cards. This church actually leans more than Pisa it is just that Pisa Tower is higher. Wolfgang complained of seasickness just by looking at it. After a quick tour we carried on via a couple of lovely picturesque villages to Greetsiel to start our days rowing. Amazingly the boats and skulls were still there. You cannot get away with that in England!

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The days rowing was almost a reverse of Thursday rowing but with a small course change for a few kilometers. The weather started off abit chilly but as the day wore on it got increasingly better. As we were making good time we all decided to have a Pit Stop in Hinte.

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The Windmill in Hinte was so fascinating that Jochen took the opportunity of admiring it while we all marched off to have something to eat in a nearby Hotel. It was only on returning to the Windmill that we realised Jochen had not been with us. We blamed Erhard and Martin for not counting us all in and counting us all out. Jochen took it with good humour and was somewhat relieved that we had in fact returned. All that remained to do was to row our way back to Emden in time for our next adventure.

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No sooner had we arrived back that we were marched off into the town for a tour of Emden town center. What a tour it was. The first thing shown was a sculpture of one of Emdens famous persons. Yes Mrs ?????? the street cleaner. Still...... better a sculpture of her than Otto Waalkes. We climbed to the top of Emden and back down again without the need of Oxygen masks. Height gained was the princely sum of 18m above sea level.

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Little Big Horn is not buried in Emden but we know an Indian who is. He happened to die in Emden in the 30's after visiting the town as part of a show. We also learned that Emden expected to be attacked during the war as it could have had strategic value to the allies and the town planners at Emden - with good forethought - built massive concrete Air Raid shelters. During one particular savage air raid much of Emden was razed to the ground but with relatively few casualties when compared with the horrific casualty statistics from other towns. The concrete bunkers were a life saver. From my point of view a humbling experience.

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Not quite sure I believed the statistic that Emden had at one point in history almost as many ships as England. I think the time mentioned was roughly the time we and Spain were the biggest sea nations. To top the interesting tour we saw Otto's Grundschule.

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After the Tour we settled down to another night at Emden, and another journey to Greetsiel to pick up the Van and Cars. Erhard couldn't resist the opportunity and took Christine, Hartmut and I to visit Europes biggest Windpark, then onto a huge 4 motored contraption housed in a huge building used to pump water out back into the sea at an incredible rate. We also visited a quaint village with lovely gardens one can say it was almost a village kept in a time warp.

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