Hamburg, Schleswig, Restaurants, and I See Dead People

Tour of Hamburg
 Christine is Ate's middle daughter.  She is about my age and lives right next door with her daughter, Carla.  She is a school teacher and has always been an excellent tour guide for us.  She drove us to Hamburg one day for a boat tour on the Elbe River.  The narrator made jokes along the way and said that if you drink water from the Elbe, you won’t age because you will die.The boat came so close to a huge cargo ship, we had the illusion we were sailing underneath it.  We also floated by the warehouses where traders negotiated with vendors on boats.  Somehow they were able to hand carpets and other goods from the boats up to the shop keepers. For dinner we went to a unique restaurant which had a computer screen for each diner.  You would order your food from the screen and it would come sliding down a roller coaster and end up at your table. It was so amusing to watch wine and beer and hot and cold dishes rocking and rolling down the tracks.  We kept ordering food just to watch it make its journey to us.

In Schleswig we visited a castle which is now a museum and holds an exhibit of corpses from the year 100.  That's right, I said 100!!  So hard to wrap your head around that.  They were discovered in a nearby moor which did a good job of preserving them.  Think I'll go roll in some mud.  There was a young girl and a couple of men, and possible explanations for their deaths - murder, sacrifice, punishment.  There is a depiction of the young girl which shows how she may have looked in life.  I found this same picture in Wikipedia and it appears below.  I think she looks like me.

A short walk across the castle grounds brings you to Globus, the oldest planetarium in the world.  It was built for the Danish king in the 1600s, then Russia stole it, then another replica was built and has been there ever since.  It's in a special tower room built just for it and you have to wait a little because they only let 10 people in at a time. The outside of the globe depicts the world as they knew it back then.  It is surprisingly accurate.  Then you step up inside of the globe and everyone sits on a bench, kind of squished together, and it is a little warm in there too.  The door closes and the ceiling lights up with all the constellations.  It is intended to represent, in a 10 minute period,  how the constellations move around in the night sky in 24 hours.
 After that, we met Ate and her good friend Hannah at  a restaurant which represented the Viking era.  We ate at a long table with a bench seat covered by fluffy sheepskins.  Hannah is originally from Denmark, has a cute Danish accent when she speaks German and I adore her.  Her hair is always pulled back in a pony tail, giving her a youthful appearance and she is always smiling and happy.  She invited us to her vacation house in Denmark and told us an amusing story about ducks on her roof, but I will save that story for another time.