Sows

This statue is by the street where the butchers used to live. The pigs would be driven to the common pasture in the mornings and when they returned in the afternoon the kitchen refuse would be thrown onto the streets for them. This constituted a good cheap meal for the pigs and they took on the job of refuse collectors.

Bremen

July 6th 2012
Bremen is an interesting city. We spent the day walking around the city center, the altstadt. We looked in a lot of shops, but neither of us found anything that we really wanted. There was a nice pair of shoes, with a rainforest motif, but they had quite a bit of a heel and so it was unlikely that I would wear them on this trip. We are still too early in our trip to be buying a lot of things that ... read more

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