Lubeck, on the Trave River, is the second largest city in Schleswig-Holstein, in northern Germany. The old part of the town is
an island enclosed by the Trave river. The Elbe-Lübeck Canal connects the Trave with the Elbe river. When I was stationed at
Kiel in 1957, my friend Alan Smith from Sunderland and I hitch-hiked there and spent a day looking round what is a beautiful
city. We treated ourselves to a nice meal and then found we didn't have enough money for the train-fare back to Kiel, so we
tried to hitch a ride - unsuccessfully. We walked for many miles in the middle of the night and eventually found a kind cafe
proprietor in Eutin who let us sit in his cafe until about 4am, after which we slept on the railway station and then caught the
train to Kiel from there - we just got back in time to avoid being put on a charge !
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