Hello Emjay,
What a day! So many impressions!
Alienne took me sightseeing in Bremen. Bremen is the town of the Bremen Town Musicians, four animals - a donkey, a dog, a cat and a cock - who set out to find their luck and happiness and found it in Bremen, making music. 
First Alienne took me to the Schnoor. It's a name for the oldest quarter in Bremen, the roots of this hanseatic city. The passages between the houses were often associated with occupations or objects, e.g. an area in which ropes (German"Schnur"/Schnoor) and cables were produced .
These were some views of the little and narrow streets. The oldest buildings are said to be from the 15th century, most are from the 17th and 18th. The quarter was restored and rebuild from 1959 on.
In some shop windows you can see the Bremen Town Musicians. Tourists want to buy them.
There were also some new houses in the area, very colourful I like that.
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Then we went over to the river Weser. It is not far from the Schnoor.
There's a foot and bike path along the river and via a little tunnel we could get to another historic part of Bremen, the Böttcherstraße.
The history of Böttcherstraße goes back to the Middle Ages. It was an important link between the market and the river. It was traditionally inhabited by coopers (Northern German: Böttcher).
Paula Modersohn-Becker, an important artist/painter in the area, has a museum here.
This is the "Glockenspiel Haus". You can hear it chime three times a day. If you want to hear it now you can click the audio file here.
From the Böttcherstraße you get to the market place.
The Rathaus (town hall):
In the back you can see the "Roland" statue. We missed to take a photo with it because our attention was drawn to something else. You will see later.
These are the so-called "Giebelhäuser" (gable houses)
St. Petri Dom
The "Schütting" (former guild house)
And now you see why we forgot to take a photo with the Roland.
Suddenly we spotted this little fellow, a may bug. Right on concrete in the middle of the market square. Of course we took the little one with us to find it some plants to sit on.
The highlight of course was the visit of the Four Town Musicians.
Then we took our way back to the railway station and passed the "sows" ( old German word is "söge") at the beginning of the Sögestraße.
At last we passed the old rampart with the windmill.
Here we were met by two old women who asked why Alienne was taking a photo with me. When she told the story the two women thought that was a very nice idea. And they were astonished about the possibilities nowadays.
It was an interesting day, and when we came home my head was full of thinking material.
Have a great day, too, Emray.
Thinking of you,
Minni
