The Bremen City Musicians NEVER made it to Bremen. I want to point that out before I talk about…read morethis statue IN Bremen. This statue is one of those things that you go to see when you go to a city to check the box. Everyone else is also there doing the same thing. The queueing system is inexistent and very disorganized. You have to wait until you can jump in to rub the foot and get a photo. People are super annoying and they linger in the frame while waiting for the photo, thus ruining your photo by being in it. This is not the statue's fault, but be prepared to be annoyed too by rude people. The statue has a base so it is tall for smaller children. One plus side for this statue is the location. If you are going to see it, you will be in the center of Bremen and in a good position to venture on and explore the city.

I've always loved the story of the Musicians of Bremen. So when I visited the city, of course I had…read moreto check out this sculpture. There isn't much to it. A visit involves looking at the statue, taking a photo, and moving on. But what more do you want? It's a really nice statue, and is also used on the logo of the city, so it has a lot of significance. When I was there, there was a football match between Werder Bremen and Schalke 04, and some Schalke fans threw their scarf onto the animals- controversial! The beautiful city of Bremen is a place you must visit, and the Stadtmusikanten statue is a simple and worthwhile place to stop off while you're there.

What better monument to scare the children on the beach at Dangast than this lovely giant penis?…read moreHad enough fun falling into the mud through the icy north sea? Then come and get a photo in front of this!

Despite traveling halfway around the world, I ran into...a co-worker here. I shouldn't have been…read moresurprised, as he *is* German, this *is* his home town, and he was visiting his mother for Christmas. The surprising part came when, as he was leading me on a tour through the enchanting neighborhood known as the Schnoor, we ran into a *second* co-worker! What are the odds?! And, since he was also German, I now had two tour guides to lead me through this historic district, that somehow survived firebombing in World War II! Cobbled streets, narrow alleyways (some barely larger than shoulder-width, forcing my much-larger tour guides to have to shimmy sideways to pass through), adorable shops and restaurants with gabled roofs, lamplit signs; all the charms of a world gone by have been preserved here, tucked away in the heart of the otherwise modern, bustling, urban metropolis of Bremen, like the remnants of a lost, magical kingdom! If I could, I would raze every strip mall, chain restaurant and dive bar on Earth, burying the current zeitgeist's trend of uninspired, mass-market, capitalist dreck, in order to build a new architectural landscape, comprised of neighborhoods like the Schnoor. If only more places in the world (or at least, back home in America) were like this!

Yes I love this place and the ambient surroundings. The narrow alley is welcoming and a joy to…read morevisit or revisit. The old architecture is great and a good look into the old heritage and culture of Germany way back when.