Thank you so much for watching! It always makes my day! I’m in the middle of rehearsals, so I haven’t seen your latest, they are always my treat when I can really watch properly! If you ever come to Germany, please do reach out - I‘ll see if you might like to see a concert!
Und....? Were you expecting that? I hope you all enjoyed getting to know me, doing my "day job"! The only show I´ll have this Summer, as the effects of all the cancellations due to the various lockdowns are still affecting my calender! So expect more videos and please know how much I appreciate each and every one who subscribes and likes - your support means the world to me! A huge thanks to Klangfrisch, who sent journalist Lissi Savin/WFB who filmed the excerpts that I used in this video, (thank you, Lissi!), to the Seebühne Bremen for making us all so welcome and providing fantastic conditions to perform, and - last but most definitely not least - to Hilmar from Kulturgipfel, for making all of this possible!
Moin Deern! Wieder ein sehr schönes Video! Nun weiß ich auch, warum du neulich aus Bremen gegrüßt hast. XD Du hast übrigens ein schönes, bayrisches 'R' wenn du Brremen sagst! Grins.. Und nun weiß ich auch, was du beruflich machst! Wir gehen next Mittwoch in HH in eine ganz andere Show: Die ROCKY HORROR SHOW! I wish you a wonderful Weekend! Ben
Of course I was expecting to be suprised once more. Those nice little things you find beside the famous sights! Even that Entenhäuschen (duck shelter) made to look like a traditional northern red brick house with a reed thatching surprised me.
Statues of Roland can be found in various European cities, and this stone one, the Bremer Roland, is one of the oldest. Often these statues are of mythical Roland, but this one refers to an historical figure, who was a companion of Emperor Charlemagne. This statue reminds everyone that the emperor is the founder of the city, and the one who gave it rights and privileges.
Great video Lauren! Bremen is on our list of places to visit, so thanks for showing us around. That’s funny you noticed that I lean over my food in our videos, because I didn’t even realize I did that 😂! Either way, I’m glad it doesn’t look like I’m going to eat the camera. Also, I can’t believe how nice those little duck houses look! I love birds, so I think that’s awesome. Thanks for pointing those out!
Omgoodness!!!! I can’t believe you are here! Thank you so much for watching and commenting! You wouldn’t believe how many times I‘ve tried to include a bit of food tasting and edited it out. So I studied the masters! I think my problem is the mix of being an opera singer (we really open our mouths wide!) and really loving my food. So I‘m just focused on CHOMP! which is not something I‘m happy sharing 😂 Thank you so much, guys xxx
Wow I've never been to Bremen before. It looks majestic and you had amazing weather for it :) and there are worse things to practice than eating cake on camera...lol😀
Now I really did laugh out loud! Sorry about that, I feel your pain, I often fast in the evenings and watch pizza videos. I do not know why I do that to myself...
Hello beautiful Lauren! 🤗 What a wonderfully, magical place you visited! In the beginning I think those were duck huts or duck housed in the middle of the water. I'm sure other birds use them, but that's what I know them as. Was that Diagon Alley?! 😮😉 I really liked the turning tower! How cool is that?! 😄 The narrowest alley way was so tiny! Yikes! So glad to see you performing!🥰You have a beautiful voice! 🎼🎵🎶Thank you for sharing your wonderful stories with us!🌞
Hello my sweet Wake Up & Craft! I‘ve missed you! I hope you‘re fine? How is it all going with your new ideas? Isn’t Bremen amazing? I couldn’t believe all those wonderful places I saw!
@@LaureninGermany Hi Lauren!🤗I'm good! I had to take some time off to spend with my family. I was gone a bit longer than I expected, but it was worth it! Now I feel like I'm starting from scratch a bit. It's okay, I don't mind. I hope you are having a lovely summer! Stay well my friend!🏖🌴🌞
@@WakeUpAndCraft oh I only just saw you replied! Family is the most important, and you‘ll get back into it all so fast! Thank you! And you have a lovely Summer, too xxx
What a beautiful video! I really enjoyed the background music along with the beautiful shots of Bremen. Never been to that town before, but this definitely made me consider going there. I'm also very surprised and thrilled that you already have more than 1.26 thousand subscribers. I remember the seemingly loooooong way to make the last ones until you had 1,000 followers. So glad that even more people got the chance to see your videos now. I really enjoy your style, so just keep doing what you like and what makes you happy, and I am sure that you will always be successful.
Carina! Hello! Yes, isn’t wonderful that people are subscribing - I honestly notice each and every one and am so grateful! And Bremen… wow!! I was astonished at how beautiful and vibrant this city is. I love combining these beautiful places with music. Thank you so much for watching and commenting, I really appreciate it! Have a lovely weekend!
What an outstanding video as always my friend Lauren. I am always looking forward to your next video. I really enjoyed following along with you through the beautiful town of Bremen. It was neat that you captures one of my favorite stores in Germany which is Karstadt :). And of course, it is always great to see at least one of our puppies in the video :). I cracked up when you were sitting in the restaurant and your mic got in the way and you said "this is not my dog", lol. It is very nice seeing the Glockenspiel. I will have to check this out on my trip to Bremen in the near future. You sounded so beautiful as you shared a bit of your wonderful singing. I would surely be a paying customer to see your show :). Thank You again for another spectacular video of pure wonderfulness ;). See you in the next round :).
Oh thank you so much, Darion! Yes, I thought it was so cool - the huge old statue and Karstadt in the background, and a tram next to it… what a city, hey?!
Great Video. I never expected that Bremen has still so much of an old town. I thought it was leveled during the II WW bomb raids and the Social Democratic Town Government, would rather build modern building, than preserve the historical building. I am glad that I am wrong. Maybe I shall use the 9 Euro Ticket and visit Bremen. :) Thanks for sharing the beauty of Bremen.
Thank you for this lovely ‚Liebeserklärung‘ to a wonderful city (where I was born and where my everyday work is). And yes, Bremen is a special city with lots of magic. Hope you come back.
Thank you so much for your lovely words! This means a lot to me. I didn’t put it in the video, but I had vlogged that I thought I would love to live in Bremen- it’s very special!
@@LaureninGermany I think, Bremen would be very happy to have you as a resident. And I would go more often into the theatre (or opera). Even if you have seen the jewels of the city centre, your video put me in the mood to offer you a sightseeing if you are in our little Hansestadt again. But of course this is just daydreaming (which isn‘t the worst). Best regards 💚
I should visit all those places You have visited, not because they are so beautiful, but because You were there! Like a Beatles tour in Liverpool 😄 ❤️🤗❤️
Wow, I didn't even know that your background is opera. What a pleasant surprise! Got this video recommended today and now I realize, I've got homework to do! There are a lot of older videos to watch. Great video, thanks for sharing
I´d love you to watch my older videos! They were before I started sharing personal thoughts more, but such beautiful places I get to visit! Let me know as you go along!
So beautiful and intriguing as always! 😎👍 Concerning the little house in the moat, you are right! It is there to give ducks the oportunity to get out of the water over night avoiding being harrased and threatened by predators, i.e. foxes, cats, doges etc.
Ich bin durch die Schwarzwald-Familie auf diesen Kanal aufmerksam geworden und muss wirklich sagen, diese Videos sind echt Spitze. Die Stadtführungen sind wunderbar. Ich freue mich jetzt schon auf die nächsten Videos.
If your travels ever bring you to Stuttgart or south of Stuttgart I would highly recommend the "Schloss Lichtenstein" (on the "Schwäbische Alb", to the south of Reutlingen). If you want so see how medieval buildings are constructed you should visit the "Campus Galli" in Meßkirch (also roughly in the same area, but more to the east) they do build a medieval monestary there with medieval methods. Really worth a visit.
That sounds perfect for me! I used to live in Giengen an der Brenz, so I love the Alb! I have some videos up - Giengen: ruclips.net/video/SmM301Ly_XI/видео.html and also Bad Urach!
Another great video. I like the mix of telling about a city’s history and some local legends. Everybody know the Bremer Stadtmusikanten and not everybody know Bremen itself. Fun fact, the city of Braunfels has a nice oldtown and a 19th century castle where a fairy tale movie was filmed by the ZDF. Funfact, the small town of Villmar, not worth a visit, got a bridge made of marble and the marble of the region was partly used for Empire State Building in New York City. The Region marble can also be found in the Eremitage in St. Petersburg. I like you upload positive things to enjoy. The world is full of negativ things, so it’s good to focus on the opposite and show them. I like the church bells thing. You should do more inn your videos. Many pretty sounding church bells here in Germany. But my favorite are the bells of Straßburg in France. The bells of the cathedral of Speyer and the bells of Limburg cathedral and the bells of a small German town called Niederselters. Not worth a visit, although the most famous German water comes from here. If you can’t visit all the places I named in my comments, the I recommended watching videos about the places here in yt.
You will see, I travel a lot! So I am always so grateful for tipps, and you have even more for me in this comment, as well as your other comment, whoch I just saw - thank you so much! I even had 10 minutes of church bells in my video from Bad Säckingen, which I reduced, and also, for my video on Juist I stood in the rain to capture them lol! I must go and hear them in Straßburg, I am occasionally in Freiburg, so that´s not much further.
Just lovely how you capture your impressions! And I'm lucky that you didn't really die at the Seebühne stage - otherwise I'd really miss your future videos. 😉
@@LaureninGermany Thanks much Lauren - currently I'm fine. But the last weeks were somehow "special" - that's when I tried to move as little as possible.
@@Opa_Andre oh… that doesn’t sound good. Is it due to the heat? Or something that comes up every now and then? I was terribly overwhelmed with work. Then finally all the immediate pressure was over- and I got corona. 🤦🏻♀️ I thought you‘d gone a bit quiet and I hope very much it isn’t because I said a coffee meeting won’t happen for a while. I struggle more than people see in the videos.
@@LaureninGermany Yep, it's just due to the heat... which may result in unexpected changes (lowering) of my blood pressure, but I know the signs and what to do. I'm used to it (happens since I was a teen)
@@Opa_Andre It’s incredible to me how some people are totally fine in the heat - my husband, for example. I’m lying there, on the sofa, like Lady Melting-Lollipop. He`s completely normal.
You never disappoint in your vlogs dear Lauren. This time the beautiful Hanseatic city of Bremen the biggest rival of Hamburg. The old town of Bremen is really beautiful and lets us guess how Bremen must have looked as a whole concept before 1939. The town hall square can also guess what wealth these port cities have accumulated in their heyday as so many other port cities throughout Europe. Bremen was for a long time more important than Hamburg and also the starting point (Bishop of Bremen) of the missionary work in Scandinavia. There is an event in Bremen which is the oldest "Brudermahl" in the world and that is the "Schaffermahl" (1545) where the shipowners, merchants and their captains meet for a big meal (5 course menu) in the town hall. Donations are collected at the same time. We Lower Saxons have an ambivalent relationship with Charlemagne :-) (blood court of Verden where 4500 Saxons are said to have been executed in one day) but Roland (as a knight) stands for absolute loyalty, sacrifice and chivalry. Many greetings from the neighboring city of Oldenburg dear Lauren.
Ha ha you just made me react so much! First I was really interested, then, oh no (about the 4500 executions) and then I had to laugh at your extra comment! Thank you for all if it!
It’s really amazing there, isn’t it? I didn’t know what to expect and I got really hooked. I didn’t put it in the video, but I said that I could imagine living there. I’m so glad you have nice memories- thanks so much for commenting.
@@LaureninGermany This made me want to go back and visit so bad, hopefully I will soon. Thanks for giving this delightfully nostalgic piece of my old city! 💚
That was fabulous Lauren. I was very pleasantly surprised to see so many historic buildings still standing - I had presumed bombing during the was would have decimated Bremen. Wow - loved hearing you sing.
Ah, I found your Bremen Video! ;-) And you found the Schnoor as one can see. Now it all comes together; I noticed your versatile aristic talents right in the first few videos I watched and I asked myself what it would be about this - so you are a lovely, radiant soprano! What a strong and bright voice, and at the same time so very light and airy! I also had some classical training (Mezzosopran /Mozart, Bach, Händel and old english song), but that was just a hobby, not professional education. The teacher was, but not I myself. I got vocal training and lessons for 9 years and alongside sung in some choirs. In my young 30ies I "collected" some good traditional musicians in Bremer Irish Pubs and we rehearsed my program that I had developed for a celtic concert. It was irish and scottish songs, ballads and instrumental pieces from 1600 to1900 and, of course, all that lovely stories about the songs. Our first concert was in Haus Blomendal! 🙂 So lovely that you tour through all those beautiful cities and have your performances here and there and everywhere. I am sure it must be fun to meet so many different people while working! I wish you all the best in every way, also good health for your beautiful voice whenever there`s a stage. You sound very beautiful, what a flexible voice and technique! But you also are such a good storyteller and filmmaker! As it often happens, many artists do own some more talents and gifts, not just "that single one". Your energy can be felt beautifully through your art, no matter what you are doing. Your videos make such a difference. What I like the most is the calm and relaxing presentation and way of filming - slow and without wiggeling, so that one really can see all before the camera shows the next view and detail. Mostly such things are filmed much too fast, and the music is terrible and does not fit the scenery and place. Your choice of music, but also your way of speaking are extremely wonderful. Your videos are full of love for the old stones and walls and the environment, it is strongly noticeable in every part of your videos. I surely will introduce your videos to a friend, she will love them, I am sure! 🙂
Well look at that! You’re a singer, too! And I have a Celtic programme, too, which I love love love doing! I’m from Wales, with Irish on my mother’s side. So we obviously have similar tastes! I also love the musical period you mentioned. Thank you so much for your lovely comments, it’s really nice of you! I am glad you found my channel! The music component is so important to me. Sometimes I re-edit entire sections because the music wasn’t right.
@@LaureninGermany I understand this so well, haha! All must be perfect because ... it`s possible and we can do it! ;-) We are not content until we give our very best! 🙂 Singing: Unfortunately I got a chronic illness, so I had to quit singing totally. It went all very fast, I lost the clearness of voice together with breathing condition, so I wasn`t able to do techniques properly anymore. That was some years ago, but when talking about it I still could cry and sometimes do. Singing was everything to me, it was a part of my soul, although I have never been a professionell singer. Now I write novels and will publish the first part of five of a big novel as my debut in winter - I tell stories, haha! ;-) We really seem to have much in common! Singing / music, theatre, psychology, social, paranormal and mystic themes, historical architecture, nature and celtic themes & music (two of my novels I am still working on have their settings in Ireland and have Irish mythology or a piece of important Irish history) ... I cannot do all at once - I am sure this is also a thing you know quite well! ;-) But writing has become my dearest and most precious thing since I cannot sing anymore. I try to become a professionell writer, have been working for six years on it.
@@shadowhall1501 how devastating not to be able to sing. I am performing a play at the moment and I notice how much less physically strenuous it is, compared to singing. And I have an AI so I do very much understand where you are coming from. Where will I be able to find your books?
@@LaureninGermany I am so sorry .. I tried to answer twice, the second time in two seperate comments because the text was a bit more (and just in case I have left out the link) ... but nothing is shown here! I did not copy the text, just the second half - and unfortunately there is no time right now to reconstruct it. Is it possible that some comments do need a little to show themselves, so I maybe should just wait a little before giving it a third try?
Its such an amazing Vlog Lauren, Germany has so much to offer and we are planning our trip there and this video is going to be so helpful, I really enjoyed your narration and the choice of music, lots of regards from Belgium and wishing you all the best
Thanks a lot! You‘ll love Germany. So many fantastic places to visit. I worked in Belgium- argh, can’t remember the name of the town. Similar to Worms…?
Ashton's video brought me over to your wonderful channel to which I immediately subscribed to! Thank you so much for appreciating Bremen, the city I was given birth in many decades ago!!!!! 🙂
Oh, thank you so much! Yes, I love Bremen. It didn´t make it into the video, but I actually said that I could really imagine living there, it´s such a fabulous city!
Hi. Schönes Video. Ein Tipp für den nächster Besuch in Bremen: versuch Walter Ruffler in seinem Atelier zu besuchen. Seine Papierskulpturen sind wirklich magisch/einzigartig
Hansa Stadt, a City of The Hanseatic League. Not so much a guild as it was a sort of commonwealth of cities engaged in maritime trade. The Hanseatic League reached from Denmark to France, covering the Low Countries…as I can recall from when we learnt about this entity in Grundschule in München….about a hundred years ago.
Die Musik führt mich durch die Bilder dazu deine wohltemperierte Stimme . Es wieder eine exzellentes Kunstwerk, dass du geschaffen hast. Danke dafür Lauren. Peter
Damn, I was just there last week, picking up my car in Bremerhaven. Was there for couple days, wish Id seen your video ,I wouldve tried visiting all those nice place showned. It was a tale of 2 cities for me. One side which was near Hautbanhauf , that so was ghetto,you could poverty,crime and drug use on the streets. Other side was nice like what you shown here in the video. I wish I had seen this and check out those places . Definitely try next time.
@@LaureninGermany I'm afraid my piano skills are too poor. However, if you compare a walk, exploring a site, with a piano play, thats something I loved to do :)
I cannot wait to be able to see bremen in person. Lauren if you get back, please check out my greatgrandparents 1st home. I will see you in the p Germanic Heritage group
I´ve been waiting for you to see! If I´d had you in your murder bustle with me, I wouldn´t have died at the end! You´d have taken the bariton down in Act 2!
When I was watching the first time, I did not hear you saying the sentence (at 8:47 ) "...Harry Potter style street" but for myself I thought from 11:07 wow, that looks absolutely like Hogsmeade and at 13:58 that's Knockturn Alley. Hope you have seen once the Leavesden Studios from Harry Potter, one of the most stunning things I ever saw in my life, ... all the props... And I am so happy that I could experience in my life often being in the town where Rowling grew up and saw the house where she lived and many buildings and places around that, which are just like in Harry Potter, so a lot of her inspirations were just 1:1 from real life, e.g. the graveyard right beside her childhood house was fully like that one in Godric's Hollow. That you are an opera singer... that meant something special to me, as sometimes in my job I have to do something with opera singers... (maybe later more, will not reveil my employer in public)
I love your amazing voice, it's so nice to listen to you and to follow you, because it's not so hard to understand you even as non native English speaker. Nice to see these lovely places through your eyes. ☺️
Thank you for this wonderful, peaceful video. I love how you take your time to show appreciation for the beautiful places in Bremen. I have been watching a ton of travel videos lately in preparation for my upcoming trip to Germany. They are mostly well-photographed, but I think they all use the same music library! Some kind of chipmunks chanting over a synthesizer! Or worse, a montage with loud obnoxious house music before each location switch. The cadence of your videos is engaging and far more pleasant. By the way, great job on Lübeck as well. My mother grew up there. :)
Hello Brian, thank you so much for your lovely comment! That was so nice to see. Yes, the music is very important to me, especially coupled with such beautiful architecture or nature scenes. How exciting that you´ll be visiting soon. I must say, your name is very Welsh, possibly from your father´s side, then, as your mother comes from beautiful Lübeck?
@@LaureninGermany Hi Lauren! Yes, I am excited to come back to Germany, and I will stay in Bremen for a few days in early September. My heritage may well be Welsh. In younger years I had red hair. There is an orphan on my father's side several generations back, so my deep British history is lost to me, although my Grandmother was DAR and Mayflower Society. On my mother's side there is a chronicle going back several hundred years, so I'm very sure I'm half German :)
@@1234brianatthedoor I notice a lot of Welsh went to Pennsylvania, in case you have ancestors from there. It’s so fascinating and very moving, hearing about people who emigrated. I want to go to the Emigrant Museum in Bremerhaven- have you heard of it?
@@LaureninGermany Oh, I have vaguely heard of the Emigrant Museum if this is the place where a majority of Germans departed to go overseas. In fact I do have family from Pennsylvania! However, my grandfather was raised in Arkansas. Of course next time you are in the US you can visit Ellis Island to learn more about immigrants to this country.
@@1234brianatthedoor I‘ve never been to the US! And look there- family from Pennsylvania! I‘ll film the Bremerhaven museum at some point, and I know they have an Ellis Island exhibit there, too.
@@GeneRauXxX well, I do make a huge effort to pronounce German as well as I can, and English as clearly as possible for any Germans who are watching. I do my very best, but there will be fluctuations in both languages, so I can believe there were variations.
The video makes Bremen look more beautiful than it really is. Sadly, most of the city consists of rather uninspired post war cr*p architecture. Only a few small corners are pleasing to the eye.
Well, I do tend to head for the pretty parts, it´s true. I try not to present a place in a way so that if someone goes there they´d be disappointed by the reality. That´s why I focus a lot on details - to try to help people see those. There is always a lot of cr*p, you´re right. But on my channel, I´m focusing on the beautiful bits. Fot this reason, I won´t film a vlog before I´ve drunk a coffee and transformed into a human from the caffeine-deprived gorgon I am when I wake up...
@@LaureninGermany Well, I appreciate that you see the beauty in things. Your videos are really enjoyable and you have a good eye for details! Looking forward to see what other places you'll discover.
Sorry we come from hamburg and dont like Bremen....why history and Football. Bremen is a Part from hamburg but a little bit outside from hamburg! Yes we in hamburg have fun!
Max- you keep commenting that other places are better. Why not just see that everywhere has something special about it? Do you actually watch my videos?
OMG had no idea what a talent Lauren, well done!
Thank you so much for watching! It always makes my day! I’m in the middle of rehearsals, so I haven’t seen your latest, they are always my treat when I can really watch properly! If you ever come to Germany, please do reach out - I‘ll see if you might like to see a concert!
Und....? Were you expecting that? I hope you all enjoyed getting to know me, doing my "day job"! The only show I´ll have this Summer, as the effects of all the cancellations due to the various lockdowns are still affecting my calender! So expect more videos and please know how much I appreciate each and every one who subscribes and likes - your support means the world to me!
A huge thanks to Klangfrisch, who sent journalist Lissi Savin/WFB who filmed the excerpts that I used in this video, (thank you, Lissi!), to the Seebühne Bremen for making us all so welcome and providing fantastic conditions to perform, and - last but most definitely not least - to Hilmar from Kulturgipfel, for making all of this possible!
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@@tasminoben686 hello my dear!
Moin Deern! Wieder ein sehr schönes Video! Nun weiß ich auch, warum du neulich aus Bremen gegrüßt hast. XD Du hast übrigens ein schönes, bayrisches 'R' wenn du Brremen sagst! Grins.. Und nun weiß ich auch, was du beruflich machst! Wir gehen next Mittwoch in HH in eine ganz andere Show: Die ROCKY HORROR SHOW! I wish you a wonderful Weekend! Ben
@@tasminoben686 thank you so much! And have fun at the Rocky Horror Show! I love that musical!
Of course I was expecting to be suprised once more. Those nice little things you find beside the famous sights!
Even that Entenhäuschen (duck shelter) made to look like a traditional northern red brick house with a reed thatching surprised me.
Don’t miss the end! I won’t be adding that kind of thing to my videos very often!
Yes, You are right, never miss Kaffee und Kuchen ☕ & 🍰
It was so civilised in that lovely café, Bianca!
Liebe Lauren, deine Videos sind einmalig schön 🥰 Der pure Genuss beim Anschauen! Vielen Dank 🙏
Lieben herzlichen Dank! Das freut mich so zu lesen!
Statues of Roland can be found in various European cities, and this stone one, the Bremer Roland, is one of the oldest. Often these statues are of mythical Roland, but this one refers to an historical figure, who was a companion of Emperor Charlemagne. This statue reminds everyone that the emperor is the founder of the city, and the one who gave it rights and privileges.
Ja, in WEDEL, westlich von HH steht auch ein ROLAND. Mein Grandpa hat dort gewohnt, daher weiß ich das.
@@tasminoben686 😃
@@sisuguillam5109 😮😘
Thank you for sharing! Tolle Bilder. Du hast eine sehr beeindruckende Stimme. 😍
Vielen lieben Dank! Ja, bezaubernd schön war es in Bremen. Danke sehr für Deine nette Worte!
Just realized i haven't commented on this video yet.
How dare i!
Bremen, yes, i remember some long nights in the city. Great people, great vibes.
Hi Peter! So nice to see your comment. Yes, I‘ve been hearing a few things about Bremen being the party place! What a backdrop…!
Great video Lauren! Bremen is on our list of places to visit, so thanks for showing us around.
That’s funny you noticed that I lean over my food in our videos, because I didn’t even realize I did that 😂! Either way, I’m glad it doesn’t look like I’m going to eat the camera.
Also, I can’t believe how nice those little duck houses look! I love birds, so I think that’s awesome. Thanks for pointing those out!
Omgoodness!!!! I can’t believe you are here! Thank you so much for watching and commenting! You wouldn’t believe how many times I‘ve tried to include a bit of food tasting and edited it out. So I studied the masters! I think my problem is the mix of being an opera singer (we really open our mouths wide!) and really loving my food. So I‘m just focused on CHOMP! which is not something I‘m happy sharing 😂
Thank you so much, guys xxx
Wow I've never been to Bremen before. It looks majestic and you had amazing weather for it :) and there are worse things to practice than eating cake on camera...lol😀
I know right? Isn’t it absolutely gorgeous there?! I was honestly surprised. Thanks for watching, Benikon xx
Welcome to my beautiful Hometown.
@@wernerrohr7259 i LOVE Bremen! Thanks!
Just pure art. You should work for NDR making perfect background stories. The commenting voice is just perfect.
What a lovely thing to say, thank you so much!
The Kaffee und Kuchen segment was cruel and unusual punishment for me to watch🙂 Yet the video and tour was first class!
Now I really did laugh out loud! Sorry about that, I feel your pain, I often fast in the evenings and watch pizza videos. I do not know why I do that to myself...
@@LaureninGermany Oh no, that is definitely self torture! If you ever find a cure, let me know.
Hello beautiful Lauren! 🤗 What a wonderfully, magical place you visited! In the beginning I think those were duck huts or duck housed in the middle of the water. I'm sure other birds use them, but that's what I know them as.
Was that Diagon Alley?! 😮😉 I really liked the turning tower! How cool is that?! 😄 The narrowest alley way was so tiny! Yikes!
So glad to see you performing!🥰You have a beautiful voice! 🎼🎵🎶Thank you for sharing your wonderful stories with us!🌞
Hello my sweet Wake Up & Craft! I‘ve missed you! I hope you‘re fine? How is it all going with your new ideas?
Isn’t Bremen amazing? I couldn’t believe all those wonderful places I saw!
@@LaureninGermany Hi Lauren!🤗I'm good! I had to take some time off to spend with my family. I was gone a bit longer than I expected, but it was worth it! Now I feel like I'm starting from scratch a bit. It's okay, I don't mind. I hope you are having a lovely summer! Stay well my friend!🏖🌴🌞
@@WakeUpAndCraft oh I only just saw you replied! Family is the most important, and you‘ll get back into it all so fast! Thank you! And you have a lovely Summer, too xxx
@@LaureninGermany Thank you! You, too!🌞
What a beautiful video! I really enjoyed the background music along with the beautiful shots of Bremen. Never been to that town before, but this definitely made me consider going there.
I'm also very surprised and thrilled that you already have more than 1.26 thousand subscribers. I remember the seemingly loooooong way to make the last ones until you had 1,000 followers. So glad that even more people got the chance to see your videos now. I really enjoy your style, so just keep doing what you like and what makes you happy, and I am sure that you will always be successful.
Carina! Hello! Yes, isn’t wonderful that people are subscribing - I honestly notice each and every one and am so grateful!
And Bremen… wow!! I was astonished at how beautiful and vibrant this city is. I love combining these beautiful places with music. Thank you so much for watching and commenting, I really appreciate it! Have a lovely weekend!
What an outstanding video as always my friend Lauren. I am always looking forward to your next video. I really enjoyed following along with you through the beautiful town of Bremen. It was neat that you captures one of my favorite stores in Germany which is Karstadt :). And of course, it is always great to see at least one of our puppies in the video :). I cracked up when you were sitting in the restaurant and your mic got in the way and you said "this is not my dog", lol. It is very nice seeing the Glockenspiel. I will have to check this out on my trip to Bremen in the near future. You sounded so beautiful as you shared a bit of your wonderful singing. I would surely be a paying customer to see your show :). Thank You again for another spectacular video of pure wonderfulness ;). See you in the next round :).
Oh thank you so much, Darion! Yes, I thought it was so cool - the huge old statue and Karstadt in the background, and a tram next to it… what a city, hey?!
Great Video. I never expected that Bremen has still so much of an old town. I thought it was leveled during the II WW bomb raids and the Social Democratic Town Government, would rather build modern building, than preserve the historical building. I am glad that I am wrong. Maybe I shall use the 9 Euro Ticket and visit Bremen. :) Thanks for sharing the beauty of Bremen.
Ah, do go - it was really really lovely there. You can have a wonderful city trip, I´m sure. Thank you so much for commenting!
Thank you for this lovely ‚Liebeserklärung‘ to a wonderful city (where I was born and where my everyday work is). And yes, Bremen is a special city with lots of magic. Hope you come back.
Thank you so much for your lovely words! This means a lot to me. I didn’t put it in the video, but I had vlogged that I thought I would love to live in Bremen- it’s very special!
@@LaureninGermany I think, Bremen would be very happy to have you as a resident. And I would go more often into the theatre (or opera). Even if you have seen the jewels of the city centre, your video put me in the mood to offer you a sightseeing if you are in our little Hansestadt again. But of course this is just daydreaming (which isn‘t the worst). Best regards 💚
I lived my first 21 years in Bremen (my hometown). Now I live in Hattingen (which you made a video about 3 months ago). Really nice videos. :o)
Ah, you have such good taste in places to live! Thank you so much for your nice comment.
Wow that's incredible, lovely singing (and costume!) Very special indeed 🌸🎶🤗
Thank you!!! I really appreciate that!
I should visit all those places You have visited, not because they are so beautiful, but because You were there! Like a Beatles tour in Liverpool 😄 ❤️🤗❤️
Bianca...!!! You are the Obersweetest!!!
@@LaureninGermany I loooove to make you smile 🥰 Ich knuddel' Dich 🤗
Wow, I didn't even know that your background is opera. What a pleasant surprise! Got this video recommended today and now I realize, I've got homework to do! There are a lot of older videos to watch.
Great video, thanks for sharing
I´d love you to watch my older videos! They were before I started sharing personal thoughts more, but such beautiful places I get to visit! Let me know as you go along!
So beautiful and intriguing as always! 😎👍 Concerning the little house in the moat, you are right! It is there to give ducks the oportunity to get out of the water over night avoiding being harrased and threatened by predators, i.e. foxes, cats, doges etc.
Oh thank you!!! How sweet.... such pretty duck houses!! Thank you for watching, too, Ruediger!
Ich bin durch die Schwarzwald-Familie auf diesen Kanal aufmerksam geworden und muss wirklich sagen, diese Videos sind echt Spitze. Die Stadtführungen sind wunderbar. Ich freue mich jetzt schon auf die nächsten Videos.
Ach, lieben herzlichen Dank! Was für ein schönes Kommentar!
If your travels ever bring you to Stuttgart or south of Stuttgart I would highly recommend the "Schloss Lichtenstein" (on the "Schwäbische Alb", to the south of Reutlingen). If you want so see how medieval buildings are constructed you should visit the "Campus Galli" in Meßkirch (also roughly in the same area, but more to the east) they do build a medieval monestary there with medieval methods. Really worth a visit.
That sounds perfect for me! I used to live in Giengen an der Brenz, so I love the Alb! I have some videos up - Giengen: ruclips.net/video/SmM301Ly_XI/видео.html and also Bad Urach!
Another great video. I like the mix of telling about a city’s history and some local legends. Everybody know the Bremer Stadtmusikanten and not everybody know Bremen itself. Fun fact, the city of Braunfels has a nice oldtown and a 19th century castle where a fairy tale movie was filmed by the ZDF. Funfact, the small town of Villmar, not worth a visit, got a bridge made of marble and the marble of the region was partly used for Empire State Building in New York City. The Region marble can also be found in the Eremitage in St. Petersburg. I like you upload positive things to enjoy. The world is full of negativ things, so it’s good to focus on the opposite and show them. I like the church bells thing. You should do more inn your videos. Many pretty sounding church bells here in Germany. But my favorite are the bells of Straßburg in France. The bells of the cathedral of Speyer and the bells of Limburg cathedral and the bells of a small German town called Niederselters. Not worth a visit, although the most famous German water comes from here. If you can’t visit all the places I named in my comments, the I recommended watching videos about the places here in yt.
You will see, I travel a lot! So I am always so grateful for tipps, and you have even more for me in this comment, as well as your other comment, whoch I just saw - thank you so much! I even had 10 minutes of church bells in my video from Bad Säckingen, which I reduced, and also, for my video on Juist I stood in the rain to capture them lol! I must go and hear them in Straßburg, I am occasionally in Freiburg, so that´s not much further.
Just lovely how you capture your impressions! And I'm lucky that you didn't really die at the Seebühne stage - otherwise I'd really miss your future videos. 😉
Lol! I felt quite ghostly afterwards though! Thank you for watching, Opa Andre. How are you? - I‘ve been melting in this heat!
@@LaureninGermany Thanks much Lauren - currently I'm fine. But the last weeks were somehow "special" - that's when I tried to move as little as possible.
@@Opa_Andre oh… that doesn’t sound good. Is it due to the heat? Or something that comes up every now and then?
I was terribly overwhelmed with work. Then finally all the immediate pressure was over- and I got corona. 🤦🏻♀️ I thought you‘d gone a bit quiet and I hope very much it isn’t because I said a coffee meeting won’t happen for a while. I struggle more than people see in the videos.
@@LaureninGermany Yep, it's just due to the heat... which may result in unexpected changes (lowering) of my blood pressure, but I know the signs and what to do. I'm used to it (happens since I was a teen)
@@Opa_Andre
It’s incredible to me how some people are totally fine in the heat - my husband, for example. I’m lying there, on the sofa, like Lady Melting-Lollipop. He`s completely normal.
You never disappoint in your vlogs dear Lauren. This time the beautiful Hanseatic city of Bremen the biggest rival of Hamburg. The old town of Bremen is really beautiful and lets us guess how Bremen must have looked as a whole concept before 1939. The town hall square can also guess what wealth these port cities have accumulated in their heyday as so many other port cities throughout Europe. Bremen was for a long time more important than Hamburg and also the starting point (Bishop of Bremen) of the missionary work in Scandinavia. There is an event in Bremen which is the oldest "Brudermahl" in the world and that is the "Schaffermahl" (1545) where the shipowners, merchants and their captains meet for a big meal (5 course menu) in the town hall. Donations are collected at the same time. We Lower Saxons have an ambivalent relationship with Charlemagne :-) (blood court of Verden where 4500 Saxons are said to have been executed in one day) but Roland (as a knight) stands for absolute loyalty, sacrifice and chivalry. Many greetings from the neighboring city of Oldenburg dear Lauren.
Oh no I forgot to congratulate you on your beautiful voice and your great performance. Asche auf mein Haupt.
Ha ha you just made me react so much! First I was really interested, then, oh no (about the 4500 executions) and then I had to laugh at your extra comment! Thank you for all if it!
A lovely video, thank you for sharing! The music is very pleasant.
Thank you so much! I’m so glad you like the music. I love the combination of beautiful places and beautiful music.
Wow. Thank you for sharing that. Great job. Bremen is my birthplace. I`m not there anymore, but it brought me back for a while. Nice 😍
Thank you! Your birthplace is incredible!
@@LaureninGermany Yes. I plan to visit siblings there. Soon.
@@connycatlady7429 do it. Time goes by and you won’t believe how many years it can become 🤗
This brings back so many memories of Bremen for me. I lived here for 5 years and have walked these streets so many times but it never gets old.
It’s really amazing there, isn’t it? I didn’t know what to expect and I got really hooked. I didn’t put it in the video, but I said that I could imagine living there. I’m so glad you have nice memories- thanks so much for commenting.
@@LaureninGermany This made me want to go back and visit so bad, hopefully I will soon. Thanks for giving this delightfully nostalgic piece of my old city! 💚
@@LaureninGermany Also your Opera singing was really impressive!
@@absurdist9609 aw thank you! Yes, I want to go back, too! Do you live far away? Can you go for a visit?
@@LaureninGermany Right now yes I'm outside Germany, but will be back soon so will definitely visit Bremen again.
That was fabulous Lauren. I was very pleasantly surprised to see so many historic buildings still standing - I had presumed bombing during the was would have decimated Bremen. Wow - loved hearing you sing.
Thank you so much, Leigh! Yes, isn’t it wonderful that those incredible buildings are still there?
@@LaureninGermany yes indeed. I'm a bit slow keeping up with your vlogs but I'll get there. I do enjoy them :)
@@leighevans1489 I appreciate it a lot, and thank you for commenting. It’s very motivating for me to keep going.
@@LaureninGermany my pleaseur :)
Ah, I found your Bremen Video! ;-) And you found the Schnoor as one can see. Now it all comes together; I noticed your versatile aristic talents right in the first few videos I watched and I asked myself what it would be about this - so you are a lovely, radiant soprano! What a strong and bright voice, and at the same time so very light and airy! I also had some classical training (Mezzosopran /Mozart, Bach, Händel and old english song), but that was just a hobby, not professional education. The teacher was, but not I myself. I got vocal training and lessons for 9 years and alongside sung in some choirs. In my young 30ies I "collected" some good traditional musicians in Bremer Irish Pubs and we rehearsed my program that I had developed for a celtic concert. It was irish and scottish songs, ballads and instrumental pieces from 1600 to1900 and, of course, all that lovely stories about the songs. Our first concert was in Haus Blomendal! 🙂
So lovely that you tour through all those beautiful cities and have your performances here and there and everywhere. I am sure it must be fun to meet so many different people while working! I wish you all the best in every way, also good health for your beautiful voice whenever there`s a stage. You sound very beautiful, what a flexible voice and technique! But you also are such a good storyteller and filmmaker! As it often happens, many artists do own some more talents and gifts, not just "that single one".
Your energy can be felt beautifully through your art, no matter what you are doing. Your videos make such a difference. What I like the most is the calm and relaxing presentation and way of filming - slow and without wiggeling, so that one really can see all before the camera shows the next view and detail. Mostly such things are filmed much too fast, and the music is terrible and does not fit the scenery and place. Your choice of music, but also your way of speaking are extremely wonderful. Your videos are full of love for the old stones and walls and the environment, it is strongly noticeable in every part of your videos. I surely will introduce your videos to a friend, she will love them, I am sure! 🙂
Well look at that! You’re a singer, too! And I have a Celtic programme, too, which I love love love doing! I’m from Wales, with Irish on my mother’s side. So we obviously have similar tastes! I also love the musical period you mentioned.
Thank you so much for your lovely comments, it’s really nice of you! I am glad you found my channel! The music component is so important to me. Sometimes I re-edit entire sections because the music wasn’t right.
@@LaureninGermany I understand this so well, haha! All must be perfect because ... it`s possible and we can do it! ;-) We are not content until we give our very best! 🙂 Singing: Unfortunately I got a chronic illness, so I had to quit singing totally. It went all very fast, I lost the clearness of voice together with breathing condition, so I wasn`t able to do techniques properly anymore. That was some years ago, but when talking about it I still could cry and sometimes do. Singing was everything to me, it was a part of my soul, although I have never been a professionell singer. Now I write novels and will publish the first part of five of a big novel as my debut in winter - I tell stories, haha! ;-) We really seem to have much in common! Singing / music, theatre, psychology, social, paranormal and mystic themes, historical architecture, nature and celtic themes & music (two of my novels I am still working on have their settings in Ireland and have Irish mythology or a piece of important Irish history) ... I cannot do all at once - I am sure this is also a thing you know quite well! ;-) But writing has become my dearest and most precious thing since I cannot sing anymore. I try to become a professionell writer, have been working for six years on it.
@@shadowhall1501 how devastating not to be able to sing. I am performing a play at the moment and I notice how much less physically strenuous it is, compared to singing. And I have an AI so I do very much understand where you are coming from.
Where will I be able to find your books?
@@LaureninGermany I am so sorry .. I tried to answer twice, the second time in two seperate comments because the text was a bit more (and just in case I have left out the link) ... but nothing is shown here! I did not copy the text, just the second half - and unfortunately there is no time right now to reconstruct it. Is it possible that some comments do need a little to show themselves, so I maybe should just wait a little before giving it a third try?
Or maybe it didn`work because I mentioned the page where you could find my stories ...? Sorry - I`ll be back later! :`D
Thank you for another wonderful video. I didn't realise that Bremen could be so beautiful, it has certainly opened my eyes!!
Isn´t it just breathtaking! Thanks so much, Barbara!
Its such an amazing Vlog Lauren, Germany has so much to offer and we are planning our trip there and this video is going to be so helpful, I really enjoyed your narration and the choice of music, lots of regards from Belgium and wishing you all the best
Thanks a lot! You‘ll love Germany. So many fantastic places to visit. I worked in Belgium- argh, can’t remember the name of the town. Similar to Worms…?
Oh, Lauren.... my dad would have loved this video so much! I do feel a bit weepy right now... and close to my Papa.
Was your Papa from Bremen, Sisu? I don’t like to think of you upset! I’m sending you a huge hug xxx
@@LaureninGermany from somewhere close by... and please, don't worry. Those where happy tears!
@@sisuguillam5109 that’s wonderful. ❤️
@@sisuguillam5109 🤗
Hatte mal ein Liebchen in Bremen umzu.. In Kirchweihe..
Ashton's video brought me over to your wonderful channel to which I immediately subscribed to! Thank you so much for appreciating Bremen, the city I was given birth in many decades ago!!!!! 🙂
Oh, thank you so much! Yes, I love Bremen. It didn´t make it into the video, but I actually said that I could really imagine living there, it´s such a fabulous city!
Great. A British Violetta in Bremen. Amazing.
Actually, I am German.
@@LaureninGermany Oh, Verzeihung, ich wollte Sie nicht beleidigen. Als Brite hat es mir eben gut gefallen. Das mit Ihren walisischen Wurzeln mein ich.
Hi. Schönes Video. Ein Tipp für den nächster Besuch in Bremen: versuch Walter Ruffler in seinem Atelier zu besuchen. Seine Papierskulpturen sind wirklich magisch/einzigartig
Danke schön! Das merke ich mir, vielen Dank. Weil nach Bremen gehe ich sicherlich wieder. So eine wunderschöne Stadt!
Hansa Stadt, a City of The Hanseatic League. Not so much a guild as it was a sort of commonwealth of cities engaged in maritime trade. The Hanseatic League reached from Denmark to France, covering the Low Countries…as I can recall from when we learnt about this entity in Grundschule in München….about a hundred years ago.
You need to watch my video about Lübeck, Gary! I explain about Hansastädte in that one. Thanks for watching and commenting, have a great Sunday!
Die Musik führt mich durch die Bilder dazu deine wohltemperierte Stimme . Es wieder eine exzellentes Kunstwerk, dass du geschaffen hast. Danke dafür Lauren. Peter
Danke Dir, lieber Peter! Ich fand Bremen sehr schön und abwechslungsreich. Danke sehr für das Zuschauen und ein schönes Wochenende.
@@LaureninGermany Herzlichen Dank Lauren und ein schönes Wochenende.
Damn, I was just there last week, picking up my car in Bremerhaven. Was there for couple days, wish Id seen your video ,I wouldve tried visiting all those nice place showned. It was a tale of 2 cities for me. One side which was near Hautbanhauf , that so was ghetto,you could
poverty,crime and drug use on the streets. Other side was nice like what you shown here in the video. I wish I had seen this and check out those places . Definitely try next time.
Definitely go again - it´s amazing!
I wish I could accompany you :) I am from Munich but live in Frankfurt
Accompany me - you mean on the piano?
@@LaureninGermany I'm afraid my piano skills are too poor. However, if you compare a walk, exploring a site, with a piano play, thats something I loved to do :)
I cannot wait to be able to see bremen in person. Lauren if you get back, please check out my greatgrandparents 1st home. I will see you in the p Germanic Heritage group
Hi Jill! I love Bremen, so I hope I´ll go soon and I definitely will look for his house. I´ve made a note of the address xxx
Lovely Reifrock! Almost Aa good as the murder-bustle! 😁
I´ve been waiting for you to see! If I´d had you in your murder bustle with me, I wouldn´t have died at the end! You´d have taken the bariton down in Act 2!
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@@LaureninGermany Down with the Bariton!
@@sisuguillam5109 we understand each other!
@@tasminoben686 hallo Ben!
When I was watching the first time, I did not hear you saying the sentence (at 8:47 ) "...Harry Potter style street" but for myself I thought from 11:07 wow, that looks absolutely like Hogsmeade and at 13:58 that's Knockturn Alley.
Hope you have seen once the Leavesden Studios from Harry Potter, one of the most stunning things I ever saw in my life, ... all the props...
And I am so happy that I could experience in my life often being in the town where Rowling grew up and saw the house where she lived and many buildings and places around that, which are just like in Harry Potter, so a lot of her inspirations were just 1:1 from real life, e.g. the graveyard right beside her childhood house was fully like that one in Godric's Hollow.
That you are an opera singer... that meant something special to me, as sometimes in my job I have to do something with opera singers... (maybe later more, will not reveil my employer in public)
Yes, it’s amazing how it looks there, isn’t it? Thanks for watching!
I love your amazing voice, it's so nice to listen to you and to follow you, because it's not so hard to understand you even as non native English speaker. Nice to see these lovely places through your eyes. ☺️
Thank you, that’s just wonderful to read!
Thank you for this wonderful, peaceful video. I love how you take your time to show appreciation for the beautiful places in Bremen. I have been watching a ton of travel videos lately in preparation for my upcoming trip to Germany. They are mostly well-photographed, but I think they all use the same music library! Some kind of chipmunks chanting over a synthesizer! Or worse, a montage with loud obnoxious house music before each location switch. The cadence of your videos is engaging and far more pleasant. By the way, great job on Lübeck as well. My mother grew up there. :)
Hello Brian, thank you so much for your lovely comment! That was so nice to see. Yes, the music is very important to me, especially coupled with such beautiful architecture or nature scenes. How exciting that you´ll be visiting soon. I must say, your name is very Welsh, possibly from your father´s side, then, as your mother comes from beautiful Lübeck?
@@LaureninGermany Hi Lauren! Yes, I am excited to come back to Germany, and I will stay in Bremen for a few days in early September. My heritage may well be Welsh. In younger years I had red hair. There is an orphan on my father's side several generations back, so my deep British history is lost to me, although my Grandmother was DAR and Mayflower Society. On my mother's side there is a chronicle going back several hundred years, so I'm very sure I'm half German :)
@@1234brianatthedoor I notice a lot of Welsh went to Pennsylvania, in case you have ancestors from there. It’s so fascinating and very moving, hearing about people who emigrated. I want to go to the Emigrant Museum in Bremerhaven- have you heard of it?
@@LaureninGermany Oh, I have vaguely heard of the Emigrant Museum if this is the place where a majority of Germans departed to go overseas. In fact I do have family from Pennsylvania! However, my grandfather was raised in Arkansas. Of course next time you are in the US you can visit Ellis Island to learn more about immigrants to this country.
@@1234brianatthedoor I‘ve never been to the US! And look there- family from Pennsylvania! I‘ll film the Bremerhaven museum at some point, and I know they have an Ellis Island exhibit there, too.
I have heard at least 5 different pronunciation of Bremen
In this video?
@@LaureninGermany yes, I think one is German and second probably English one and others I dunno 🤷♂️😀
@@GeneRauXxX well, I do make a huge effort to pronounce German as well as I can, and English as clearly as possible for any Germans who are watching. I do my very best, but there will be fluctuations in both languages, so I can believe there were variations.
@@LaureninGermany you are great and honest.
The video makes Bremen look more beautiful than it really is. Sadly, most of the city consists of rather uninspired post war cr*p architecture. Only a few small corners are pleasing to the eye.
Well, I do tend to head for the pretty parts, it´s true. I try not to present a place in a way so that if someone goes there they´d be disappointed by the reality. That´s why I focus a lot on details - to try to help people see those. There is always a lot of cr*p, you´re right. But on my channel, I´m focusing on the beautiful bits. Fot this reason, I won´t film a vlog before I´ve drunk a coffee and transformed into a human from the caffeine-deprived gorgon I am when I wake up...
@@LaureninGermany Well, I appreciate that you see the beauty in things. Your videos are really enjoyable and you have a good eye for details! Looking forward to see what other places you'll discover.
Sorry we come from hamburg and dont like Bremen....why history and Football. Bremen is a Part from hamburg but a little bit outside from hamburg! Yes we in hamburg have fun!
Max- you keep commenting that other places are better. Why not just see that everywhere has something special about it? Do you actually watch my videos?
@@LaureninGermany all is fun and i dont not realy hate Bremen its fun between Hamburg and Bremen !
@@maxhelm6157 oh, I am glad you clarified! Sometimes it’s difficult to under what someone means through the written word. 🤗❤️
Thats right its fun