My favorite shape that confectioners make is 'Kartoffeln' (potatoes), which really look like potatoes! During the holiday season, they also make dioramas of cities throughout the city and put them in store windows... all made out of marzipan! They also have the second-biggest Christmas market in Germany, and I will be sure to show you some photos from it later. It starts at the end of November.
The entirety of the city of Lübeck is also a UNESCO World Heritage site, which essentially means that it is absolutely adorable on every street! It was also the birthplace of the "Hanseatic League," which was a huge organization of cities that formed alliances with each other for trading from the 1200's to the 1400's CE. A fun fact is that Kiel was actually kicked out of the Hanseatic League because it was harboring pirates! The whole city is located on an island, which made it very easy to defend, and nowadays you can still visit the gates which controlled entrance to the city.
Bremen:
I also was able to visit the city of Bremen, which is a bit further from me, a journey of about two and a half hours by train. Bremen is is much bigger than Kiel, and it has a really cute town center! In Bremen, as elsewhere in Germany, the Rathaus (town hall) is a very intricate-looking building! I also arrived during an annual celebration in Bremen called the Freimarkt, an annual fall-time celebration which has been happening since 1035 CE. That makes it one of the oldest folk celebrations in all of Germany! Just as I arrived, a group of drummers was making their way through the train station, and then there was a parade through the whole town!
