{"id":4434,"date":"2025-10-10T11:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/?p=4434"},"modified":"2025-10-10T11:01:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:01:13","slug":"afternoon-trip-to-bremen-vegesack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/2025\/10\/10\/afternoon-trip-to-bremen-vegesack\/","title":{"rendered":"Afternoon trip to Bremen Vegesack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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On Sunday, we did a spontaneous little trip to Bremen-Vegesack<\/a>, which lies in the north of Bremen, where the Lesum River meets the Weser. Around 400 years ago, Germany\u2019s first artificial harbour was constructed here, and today Vegesack is still known for its Harbour. The bronze statue of a whale jaw as well as the \u201cWhale fins in the waves\u201d sculpture that can be found on the Weser promenade of the \u201cVegesacker Hafen\u201d (Harbour) are a memorial to the historical whaling tradition and the “whaling town” of Vegesack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We explored the promenade of the harbour as well as the \u201cVegefes<\/a>t\u201d, a neighborhood festival in Vegesack that takes place every year at the beginning of fall. We explored the artistic flea market in the city center, tried some traditional \u201cSchmalzkuchen<\/a>\u201d and listened to a local band playing American bluegrass, country and  blues Music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The weather was – in a typical Bremen way – a bit rainy, but that did not stop us from having a fun afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Sunday, we did a spontaneous little trip to Bremen-Vegesack, which lies in the north of Bremen, where the Lesum River meets the Weser. Around 400 years ago, Germany\u2019s first artificial harbour was constructed here, and today Vegesack is still … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60654,1142],"tags":[226804,226822,226799],"class_list":["post-4434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excursions","category-fun","tag-bremen","tag-harbour","tag-trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4439,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4434\/revisions\/4439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}