Luneberg, south of Hamburg, has many pedestrian streets, old buildings, cyclists, and a Saturday street market in the city square, near some historic churches. There is also a salt museum because for centuries this was an area of salt mines. We did not visit this museum, but we saw the street market and walked many of the narrow Medieval streets of cobblestone.
Cuxhaven, northwest of Hamburg, is on the Elbe River delta at the North Sea. Few pedestrian streets, if any, are in this industrial city where freighters pass the city and harbor of a couple cranes, a few ships, and many yachts, moored in an area which a seaside promenade passes.
These cities, each with fewer than 100 000, are in the same state. A one-day state train pass, for about $20 Canadian, is enough to reach both cities. Bremen and Hanover are in the same state, but we did not see them. I am happy with what I do see here, in a country I never expected to visit.
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