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In the afternoon we set off for Lemgo in our own vans and stopped first at a huge supermarket to take on supplies where we all lined up in the car park. A few locals came to see the line-up and took photographs. The ladies were ‘encouraged’ not to stay too long in the supermarket!!
We then moved on to the outskirts of Lemgo where we again lined up in a parking bay. Here we were met by an 80-year-old British veteran who had been stationed in Germany after the war. He led us on a guided tour of Lemgo and told us many interesting facts about the city.
The city had the most beautiful buildings with elaborate carvings on them many of which represented different things or stories.
There were lots of score marks on one of the stone pillars on the Church entrance
and this is where pilgrims scraped off a little of the pillar to take with them on their journey to keep them safe.
There was an unusual fountain where the figures had movable limbs and each represented important town folk.
The city was known for the carrying out of witch trials and we went past an alleyway where there was a house where torturers lived generation after generation and when they had finished their time, they went to live in a house across the street from the one they were in.
That wasn’t the end of the days entertainment as we then went to visit a Distillery & Bistro “Die Fahre” in Erder. Small brewers made their schnapps here including Ulf. Explanations of the process were given to us and at the same time a taster of the various fruit schnapps which
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