I must say the hotels in Germany put on a real banquet for breakfast. Too much to bike on but today we are just shifting hotels from 7 kms out in the suburbs into the city centre. The roads were still wet from last nights rain and there were very few people up and about. So as not to turn up too early we stopped for a coffee at a bakery
They do their own baking and while we sat there these were flying out the door like the proverbial hot cakes.
The Elbinger Platz. A lovely old Turkish couple own it and even though it was only 11.00 , she quickly got our room ready so we could leave our bags and go sightseeing 
Bremerhaven is Stunning ! From the old harbour with its many vintage boats to the most amazing architecture. That’s the Hafen hotel .
The glass bubble in front of it is the climate museum, supposed to be the best museum here .
And the dome next to them is the centre of an underground shopping centre called Mediterranean.
complète with piazzas and streets 
and joined to yet another mall on the other side of the old harbour by this glass tube
and THEN there was the long boulevard next to it with lots of lovely bronze art. The ship builders, the fish lady,
the bow of a sailing ship? But our main reason for staying here is to spend time at the German Emigration museum
This museum has been designed to make you feel like you’re actually joining the millions of people who for various reasons were forced to leave home for a better life.
as you made your way through the museum ,you swiped the card they gave you over a pad and listened in to what was happening around you. As if you were there eavesdropping.
This ship was a vast improvement on the hold of a sailing ship which we had just been through ( and forgot to get photos of) 
Christines great grandfather bought his whole family out to NZ in 1879 when his home in Poland was part of Prussia. In blue .Bremerhaven was where they probably left from but sadly the museum didn’t list departures from its port to NZ . Mostly concentrating on America. We’ll find it on Ancestry.com.
A shopping mall of the 1950s The second half of the museum was about immigration into Germany . Now a highly favoured place for many migrants to head for ,it had a very poignant message to each and every one of us that we are all migrants from somewhere .
As we headed back to our hotel we listened to some live music by the old harbour 
and I went and had a look at this WW2 submarine. To keep my museum buff happy
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