At
least that was the plan. I woke up really early, headed out to the Hannover
Hauptbahnhof (which I know like the back of my hand), and bought my ticket
to Celle. It cost me DM 25 return, but I could take the fastest trains
there. No not the ICE train (drool....) but the IR, which would cut my
travel time to roughly half, meaning 20 minutes.
When
I got to Celle, I wandered around for a while trying to find the bus station
by following the signs which led me to another platform in the train station,
and then I had to go down some steps to get to the bus loop. I checked
out the bus schedule, which was in German of course, and waited for my
bus to come in roughly 10 minutes. Waiting, waiting, waiting...... for
about half an hour and no buses came at all. Actually, no vehicles came
at all, so I decided to go back to the train station to ask if buses ran
on public holidays, but all the shops were closed except for one, and the
lady didn't speak English at all (we tried talking earlier when I bought
a postcard from her, but we both didn't understand each other so we just
smiled at each other and both shrugged our shoulders). So back to Hannover
I went.
In
the afternoon, Kitty and I walked to Herrenhäuser Garten (only two
tram stops away from our place), and explored the park surrounding it.
We thought that this would somehow lead into the Großergarten but
we were wrong and walked almost all the way to the freeway. It turns out
that there's a moat separating the park from the actual gardens but you
could still see inside. Next we went into the Berggarten, checked out this
free outdoor photo exhibit (pretty nice but a little crowded) and walked
around under the trees and checked out the mausoleum where the ancestors
of the British Royalty were buried, the former rulers of Hannover. We both
decided to go back home and rest and plan our Hamburg trip, but really,
for me, what that meant was, "I think I'll go to sleep for the rest of
the day because we have to go back to work tomorrow". |