Weekly Post 7

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Recap

Monday I spend the day finishing the lab report, and I cleaned the house. Tuesday I donated blood and did some work for the uni, I also prepared a lab for next week. Wednesday I finally wrote the blog post and had an interesting university lecture. After doing some more work for university I went to my family home with a little detour to spend the evening with my father and our previous field hockey hobby team members.

Thursday the holiday trip started. We are travelling to Aschberg to meet up with old university friends of my father and their significant others, so a ~20 people large group. After checking in the Panorama Hotel we did a small hike on the mountain with a nice Bismarck statue.

Note regarding images

Press on the images to see them in full I can not be bothered to properly insert them I’m not an image guy.

View from high up the mountain. You can see the rooms in the bottom left corner. He has the same view as we have. Story about the statue. Only in German, so uhm. Sorry if you can't read it.

The next day we went to Haithabu, a Viking museum and open doors area where they rebuild some houses from that area. Some people go there and dress as they did in these days, display old handcrafts and a market. It was really neat. We got a tour through the area and hiked around the nearby lake Haddebyer Noor for one and a half hour.

There are more huts on the right Example inside, they built everything with the tools they had back then Small harbour, had trading ships usually

After that, my parents and I visited the Castle Gottorf which has museums in its area, which was impressive to take in. We went with a tour through the old part of Schleswig. We visited the Holm, which is an old fisher settlement of Schleswig, and it has a Beliebung. This is a private graveyard/community association. I haven’t encountered this type before, not sure many exist in Germany still.

Hard to show how big just the main building ist Entrance to the part of the town This is right in the middle of the settlement, crazy

Saturday we visited Eckernförde. We got a short tour through the core of the town, and visited more of it by ourselves. For the second half of the day we got a guide through the old fish smokehouse (German website only). They have it fully working with all the old machines and the oven, right in the very narrow old town.

Beach \o/ One angle from the old town This is the oven of the smokehouse

Sunday was my personal highlight. We visited the mixing plant from SAW (german website again). We got a very impressive tour through the whole plant and surrounding area, the lab chief we convinced to do this for us on a Sunday was very knowledgeable and gave us great insights.

View from the entrance building from the side They seperate their recycling material in the back of the area
This is the front, closer Backside, where the material for the mixing gets thrown together View from the high platform

If there is anyone interested in a more detailed recap of that plant, do PM me and I will do next week. After that we drove home, and I took one of the most east U-Bahn stations of Hamburg, which looks nothing like Hamburg at all.

If you look closely you can see it only has one rail! With a U-Bahn. This is so crazy.

Culinary highlight

No food from the trip really stuck out, though we had some crazy self-made ice called EiZ. You make your own flavour, which is a unique approach. Not entirely convinced though.

We did make self-made apple crumble which is always a lovely quick dessert on Monday though.

Currently watching/reading/listening

We finished watching Andor, what a great show. 100% big recommendation, if you want to see a complex plot about how a rebellion starts in a fascist empire (and well, Star Wars). We immediately watched Rogue One after that, because it leads so well into the movie.

I had the great opportunity to read Rhythm of War together with my mother. I spend the last weeks catching up with the book, we are now basically in sync with our reading progress and spend some time discussing the plot, world building, our theories on how it all connects together and effects the characters. It is a really neat experience being able to share something like that when you are right in the middle of it as well.

Weekly thought

Open source technology maintainers are awesome. I have come in contact with quite some now and then, and they are usually helpful, totally nice. These people spend their free time doing some kind of service to the public, expecting nothing back. And are still so delightful about everything. These interactions always leave me with a warm feeling.

YouTube channel shout-out

There is an even smaller YouTube channel I would like to share: Will Dennis. He makes very short high quality videos occasionally, look at this one for a great example how he does them. Big recommendation.

As always, make the best out of your day!