Flensburg
- havasalad
- Mar 3
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 13
I don’t usually prepare myself for visits to different cities. I don’t know where the red-light district is, where the local “Shenkin” street is, or where the gay neighborhood is. In Flensburg, like in many other places, I simply hop on my bike and start pedaling.
Flensburg is a town at the tip of the Flensburg Fjord in northern Germany. Its brick gabled Nordertor, built around 1595, is the last remaining city gate. The Flensburger Maritime Museum chronicles the town's seafaring past. Nearby, the shipyard museum Museumswerft displays recreated historic ships and hosts boat building classes. Museumsberg Flensburg explores art and cultural history from the Middle Ages onward (thank you Google).
It’s a sunny day; on one side of the bay, the water sparkles around and in between small leisure boats, and on the other side, larger cruise ships are docked. Tourists and locals mingle along the piers and in cafés. Some walk in pairs, some run, many ride bicycles, and somehow, I blend into the city’s tourist landscape.
At some point, it gets a bit chilly, and as so often happens in Europe, it starts to drizzle, and it seems to me that today I’ve burned enough calories, so I decide to head back towards the van, shop at the large CITTI-Park mall next to the parking lot, prepare lunch, and Netflix binge.
The wonders of modern technology never cease to pleasantly surprise me. It turns out that you can buy a SIM card for your mobile phone in every country in Europe, and for a relatively low fee, you can purchase unlimited data or lots of data, meaning you can watch endless content online using your phone as a hot spot. Got it? Here this video explains it quite simply:
That's it. Tomorrow I will be saying goodbye to giant Germany, which, in my opinion, shares a border with almost all the Western European countries - the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Austria, Czechia, Poland, and Denmark. I think it is very important that we maintain good relations with Germany and ensure that its feelings of guilt towards the Jews never end, because Germany is the queen of Europe, and it is good for Jews to have good relations with queens and kingdoms.
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