Westphalia

This is the view from The Geek's family's living room. I was told with that view, it is like being on vacation everyday.
We were taken on a tour of the area, starting in Marl and then on to Münster.
Marl had one of the biggest bicycle stores I have ever seen. The Geek found a small part for her recumbent that she had been told here was no longer available. They just pulled out a manual, found the diagram, she picked out which piece it was, and they brought it for her. It doesn't get much better than that.
In Münster, the flowers were on sale everywhere, a wonderful sign of spring. Münster is known as the city of bicycles, and there were definitely many of them around.

Many of the older buildings were damaged by fire during the war, and the blackening still remains. This is St. Lambert's Church. It was apparently destroyed during the war and rebuilt again, with

the three cages above the clock no doubt replaced as well to make it look just like the original. These cages held the bodies of three ringleaders of the Münster Rebellion.
We had coffee and cake at a cozy little cafe that The Geek's dad frequented when he was in University and all in all enjoyed ourselves thoroughly.

The trip home was my first high-speed experience on the autobahn. If I saw the speedometer properly, we were doing 180 km/hr.