Einbeck and PS Speicher

Today we arose to normality, supermarkets and shops are open! Well, not all, but enough for us to get what we need.

We went out to a supermarket to find some basic essentials like drinks to put in the fridge at the hotel, and find some breakfast in the baking section.

PS Speicher opened at 10am so we parked at the hotel and wandered over there. The exhibit is spread across multiple floors. The lift starts by taking visitors to the top floor then we work our way down. The list even had chairs in it!

The top floor is where transportation began, starting with horses, and learning how a horsepower is measured. Then most of the early transportation is some variation of motorcycle before cars.

We even had an opportunity to sit on a real penny farthing!

The museum progresses through the decades especially mentioning the war and post-war periods where firstly motorcycles were particularly popular and then the rise of consumerism in the 60's when cars became increasing affordable and desirable.

There were also exhibits of other items beside cars for each decade. We found a Commodore 64 here, the second we have seen on this holiday! Also a DeLorean, they did not say if it was used in the Back To The Future movies but if not then this was a very good replica.

They also had a special exhibit about the Easy Rider movie and biker culture. Here they had replicas of the bikes in the movie, one had Peter Fonda's signature on the tank.

It took about 2.5 hours to go through the exhibits. After we were done, we went into the historic Market Square which according to their website is "showing an ensemble of timber-framed houses.... It has its origins as a medieval street market and is today the heart of the city and stage of public life". Here there were Christmas Markets open so we took the opportunity to get lunch here. This would be our last Christmas Markets on this trip.

Next I was booked at PS Speicher Motorrad across town, which has three floors of motorcycles, thousands of them, mostly pre-1950. I spent about an hour looking through the exhibits. It was overwhelming just how many bikes they had. Three floors like this:

A small sample of the weird and wonderful:

As this was our last night in Einbeck, and for that matter Germany, we went back into the Market Square for a nice hearty meal at the Brodhous. What better way to finish Germany than Schnitzel and beer?

Tomorrow we return to Amsterdam and start making our way home.