Singen Bears

As mentioned before, there is a city very close to Radolfzell called Singen. It is 10 minutes maximum by train to get there. As I mentioned before, Singen has two very great hills to climb. Singen also has another attraction as well. Singen is full of these big bear statues! I never got around to asking why but the statues are all a different theme and I just had to take pictures so you all could see them. I have found that a lot of German cities have an animal or symbol that is represented throughout their city. For instance, Ulm, has the sparrow überall (everywhere). Also, I would like to dedicate this post to one of my best friends, Kaitlin Recore,...her obsession with everything bears inspired me to write this post. So anyway, here are the bears.

Not sure what this theme was...a map?

Fire Bear!

Not reall worthy of a picture but they ARE two blue bears in front of a mustard yellow building.

Not sure what this is supposed to be, but I just
pretended that it was a Brewers bear.

Lady-like bear. She will make you cookies
BEFORE she mauls you to death.

Book bear in front of a book store. Natürlich!

It's hard to tell, but this is a painter bear in
front of a paint store.

Brezel (pretzel) Bear!

This is a musical bear...and a not-so-secret
Packers fan. Go Pack Go!

Sportlich (sporty) Bear.

Mafia Bear!

Nature bear in front of a natural herbs
and spices store!

Jackson Pollock bear?
It was in the Deutsche Bank that I go to.

Hohenkrähen

So one of the girls in the Radolfzell group is a crazy runner. She runs what she calls übermarathons. She loves running and doing physical things. I wish I was more like that. That is not to say that I can't hold my own when it comes to sports but I am certainly not going to run an übermarathon anytime soon. So as part of the Carl-Duisberg Centren experience in Radolfzell, us CBYXers were supposed to organize an Ausflug (trip). This runner girl ends up organizing it and we end up going to Hohenkrähen. In the nearby town of Singen there are two very large hills (one might even call them mountains). They are named Hohentwiel and Hohenkrähen. I believe Hohentwiel is a dead volcano and both of these mountains have Burg (castle) ruins on top of them.

So we had to organize this trip and the girl made the sign up sheet for it. The Americans were the only people that signed up for it. I guess the other kids at CDC thought it was too strenuous. I don't necessarily like being sweaty and tired either but the feeling you get after a climb or a bike ride is really great and I have never regretted a single bike ride or climb I have ever done (no matter how seldom I have done them). So we basically hiked around for hours. The trails were a bit muddy but that was fine because, if you recall from my past post entitled "ebay.de", I had my special "outdoorsy" shoes and I didn't care if they got dirty. It was so much fun and we were so high up. We got to see the countryside of Germany with cows and little farms. And one of the streets we walked down on the way back had apple trees lining it so we picked our own afternoon snack. I love the US but I have experienced moments here in Germany that have been nothing short of magical, and this one is no exception. I feel, these days, that my blog has become more of a picture gallery and less of an open diary. I will try to write more actual words about my experiences but at the same time, a picture is worth a thousand words.

Yes, they have roundabouts in Germany.

The little brown blobs are cows!

The Zell gang!

This is Hohentwiel. I had climbed this on a separate occasion. The mountain we climbed this day was called Hohenkrähen.