After our three days of wonderful weather in Friesland, we are homeward bound. We flake out and finally emerge at 6. She looks so sceptical — after the rain, it will be very muddy — that we change our minds and drive there. We find a stone picnic table and bench overlooking the town which is at the confluence of the Fulda and Weser Rivers on which Bremen is located.
It has another claim to fame. We wander over the covered wooden bridge, typical of those we saw on the Danube last year, and into the town, which has more than historical houses, some of them more than years old, in the Weser Renaissance style.
It is not as stunning as Celle , but it is still very charming and there are some beautiful painted doors. It was founded in by French Huguenots fleeing persecution in France.
Though initially named Sieburg, the town was later named after Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel , who granted them refuge.
We find this particularly interesting as the original owners of our house in Blois, Closerie Falaiseau, were Huguenots.
