I shot this video with my camera a few days ago. I took a 30-minute train
ride from Hamburg to Lübeck, and rented a bike for the day.

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Germany is a lot more bicycle-friendly than the United States. In the larger
cities, the public transportation company ("Deutsche Bahn") offers a
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Where can you find a cute cubby starring in a musical, flying pixies, and a donkey that poops coins? At "De Efteling," of course! It's a theme park in The Netherlands that I visited yesterday. Here are some pics and videos.

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Rounding-out my activities in Hamburg was this nighttime water/light/music
show in the park. It was a free public performance that they were running
every night for a month. Lots of people showed-up, and it ran about 30
minutes or so. Most of the music was classic jazz, but they threw-in some
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