It is September by now. Weather is still good to us. It is quite cool in the morning and evening hours but in the mid of the day it is just sunny and warm. Already two weeks ago two friends of mine made an appointment for this sunday to cycle to Gifhorn. The International Museum of wind- and water mill
Whoever did not toe the line in the medieval age could go wrack in the truest sense of the words. One of the most dangerous places during the princedom Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel must have been the “Lechlumer Holz”, more precisely the chop-chop square. Defendants were not really treated with kid gloves. “Beheadings and kidnapping, that is only business. A question of reputation.”
Sometimes it can be worth to leave the beaten tracks. I did it recently and discovered a place I might not have come across otherwise. This is the story of going straight instead of turning left. The outcome is the encounter with two cloisters, one of them is an oasis of tranquility. It started with an information sign and ended