This is home of the rolling hills and flat, endless fields. Lübbecke is very similar to Büdingen in this way. Ancient towers, free farmland...it's all I good here.

More fields and farmland? C'mon now, it looks just like Sumas Flats, right? If you said yes, please leave my website...NOW!!

Horsies are very nice animals. We encountered these ones on a walk to the forest. The path led up and into a strange forest that had absolutely no undergrowth. It was quite interesting and I liked it because I love forests. Besides the point, these horses were nice...or were they ponies? I'll leave that one to you.

The busy streets of downtown Lübbecke are as busy as you want them to be. Well, not quite. They are very quiet in the bad weather, but in the sunshine are busy. I liked the layout of this little town. The downtown was complex, but at the same time very small. It had new stores in old buildings. My new-found friend and I rode bike here to photocopy a picture at the store. On the way home, it started raining really hard, so we raced to get out of the rain as soon as possible. The bikes we were riding were street bikes that had no tread on the tires. As we raced down the main strip and into the suburbs, I decided to get off the road and out of the way of parallel-parked cars and turned to get onto the sidewalk. To my dismay, the tire never grabbed the lip of a driveway and instead I fell over sideways in a crash at about 40 km/h. My body remained in the bike as it slid to a complete stop. The only injury I recieved was a slightly sraped hand because I dragged it along the cobble stone sidewalk to maintain balance. That bike saved my life and I didn't even scrape my leg! I should've taken a picture of the bike that protected me, but really, it was God.

Here is the great countryside I was talking about. Just look at it! It looks nothing like at home! That's what I like about it. All it needs is Mount Baker in the distance. In the distance were some peculiar hills. I guess they were some kind of mines. Also, the power supply in Germany is coal and wind power. Hundreds of massive fans scatter across the land. Some are absolutely massive, but others are the size of cars, if you can imagine cars up there. Anyways, this picture was taken from the end of that walk when we passed those ponies/horses. It was but a 15 minute long walk from the house we stayed at that I seriously thought was hundreds of years old. Too bad I didn't get that house on picture too. Oh well.