Aisles and courtyards in Lübeck

[Skybird]

The word "Gang" in this context is tricky to translate, I found, i am not completely comfortable with any of the offered english translations in online dictionaries. Tunnel, corridor, passage, hallway: all that points at it, and yet does not precisely catch it.



But anyway...

[Eichhörnchen]

Originally Posted by Skybird

The word "Gang" in this context is tricky to translate, I found, i am not completely comfortable with any of the offered english translations in online dictionaries. Tunnel, corridor, passage, hallway: all that points at it, and yet does not precisely catch it.



But anyway...

Perhaps 'alley' or 'alleyway'? Both meaning an urban pathway not accessible to anything larger than a bike

Anyway, a lovely wistful post, my friend - I really get where you're coming from and we'd love to stay over in such a place

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

Perhaps 'alley' or 'alleyway'? Both meaning an urban pathway not accessible to anything larger than a bike

Anyway, a lovely wistful post, my friend - I really get where you're coming from and we'd love to stay over in such a place

In 1997 and 1998 my parents and me visited Lübeck again for a week and for ten days, over Christmas, and every itme we staye dion one of these houses, many fo them are/were avialabole for tourism. Its hard to imagine how "gemütlich" these small houses then can be, with he weather outside grey and cold, and inside the materialization of "coziness". Also, the typical hanseatic atmosphere and interior, colours....


Oh man, is 25 years ago already...

[Eichhörnchen]

Quote:

"The town's name btw has slavic and wagric roots, the name stems from the ancient word "Liubice", that means "the lovely", it then was combined with an ancient lower-German word, "beke", which means creek, refering probably to the two small rivers Trave and Wakenitz that completely surround the old town, making it essentially a complelte island. "Lübeck" means: the lovely one that is surrounded by two rivers"


I would think that they will one day be in much danger from flooding

[Skybird]

Possible, we will see what drama climate change REALLY will do in these regards. In the five years we lived there I experienced two floodings. The old town is an island and that island is a hill, at least comign fromthe West and enteri8ng through the Holstentor - it goes uphiull until you reahc the centre marekt place. The Western part of the ity, the road at the rivers (Trave and Wakenitz meet at the Holstentor) had its quayside street and the first row of old houses flooded, from half to one meter. Floodings of this natural kind are part iof life for those living in these houses. every couple of years. Still, the area is a fapvurite to live, the southern part of it is not for no reason called "Malerwinkel": painter's corner.

I just found oput that soembody there has copied a busienss model form Copenhagen: he lease sicense-free electroboats for 2-5 persons, small ones, a bit bigger than "Tretboote" (paddleboats?), and you then can tour around the old town and the yacht harbour inSt. Lorenz in the South-West.

3 minutes quick time tour around the old town, on rivers Wakenitz and Trave.




Lübeck is always worth a stay. But in summer the toursist are aforc eof nature. Take plenty of birdshot with you. Between holidays seasons is best time to travel there, also cheaper housing. Much cheaper. Autumn is nice - or over christmas days. The church bells of five churches and seven towers in a ver ysmall place makes the air vibrating everywhere, it is very special to walk during midnight matter in the town, especially near the dome. They call it "the city of seven towers".