tour of this northern german town that's a  popular stop on the german timber frame road  

together we'll visit the historic  half-timbered houses of the old town  

we'll sample some potent liqueurs with secret  recipes we'll transport ourselves to the future  

with a walk through a bauhaus neighborhood we'll  tour the castle grounds where we'll encounter all  

sorts of unique creatures plus we'll also  put our taste buds to the test by sampling  

a local meat dish that is served completely  raw all that and more on today's visit to cele  

good morning good morning people we are still  in germany and today we are coming to you from  

celle lower saxony and this is a super cool  town i'm really excited to visit because  

it's got a beautiful collection of medieval  baroque and bauhaus architecture that we're going  

to be showing you and right behind us a german  castle worth exploring so all of that coming up

our first stop of the day was the  town's main attraction celle castle  

starting with a walk through  the beautiful castle gardens  

now to give you a bit of history an early version  of celle castle was built around the year 980 in  

the form of a fortified tower however the current  german castle was first documented in 1315.  

over the century celle castle has grown evolved  and been redesigned and redecorated into what we  

see today which explains the mix of renaissance  architecture and baroque style staterooms

i have to say that was the coolest goose okay  he was having a nap eyes were closed and he  

was balancing himself on one foot can you do  it could you fall asleep on course i do that  

every day what are you talking about come on  come on oh man that was the best that just  

made my visit walking through the grounds and  seeing that goose so we've come across a pretty  

cool sculpture yes it's a horse and a trainer and  that's pretty much what it would look like if i  

was learning how to train a horse the horse would  be just opening and acting wild i'm pretty sure  

we actually ended up joining a tour for part of  the castle visit because it's the only way to  

gain access to certain parts of the building  like the chapel which is stunning the castle  

chapel is pretty special because it's the  only religious building north of the alps  

with completely preserved renaissance interiors  you can only view the chapel from behind a glass  

barrier in order to preserve it but it was  a real highlight and well worth the visit

after visiting the german castle we continue  towards the old town which is renowned for  

its medieval half-timbered houses and in fact  celle has the densest concentration of them  

nowhere else in all of germany or even europe  can you find so many half-timbered houses so  

close together without any gaps in between it's  essentially like stepping into a fairy tale plus  

some of these houses have narrow passages that  lead to tiny courtyards which makes it feel like  

you're stepping into a secret garden you could  easily lose a few hours in the old town not only  

admiring the architecture but also wandering  into all sorts of cafes and specialty shops

one of those stops we made was at alter provisor  which is an old pharmacy turned gift shop  

this place is well known for an amber colored  herbal liqueur that has been made for over  

100 years following a highly secret family  recipe we got to do a fun little tasting here  

very very delicious in the ginger i like it  it's a bit like liquid honey you know it's so so  

sweet and soft yes it was sweet but it was also  like fire it immediately warmed up my mouth throat  

and chest so if you find yourself in town that's  another thing to try we also visited the italian  

garden which is less a garden and more residential  neighborhood designed in the bauhaus style by  

architect otto hessler the buildings have a very  modern look with bright splashes of red and blue  

that help highlight their cube-like shape it's a  really interesting place to visit because you're  

propelled from medieval times to the future just  by walking a few short blocks from the old town

then for lunch we went to ratzkeller which  

is located at basement level  underneath the old town hall

guys so i ordered the three-course lunch  i've already had a bite of the soup  

and i can tell you this was the right decision  and this right here is a cream of mushroom soup

oh absolutely love it oh so creamy then for  his mane sam ordered the currywurst with fries  

this is more of a fast food dish that consists  of a steamed and fried sausage seasoned with  

curry ketchup and served with a side of  fries i just love this sauce saturate it  

and for my mane i got the venison stew served with  cabbage a puff pastry a pear and cranberry sauce  

that was followed by a panna cotta  with wild berries for dessert  

it was a good meal and we also  enjoyed the dimly lit cozy ambiance

this is our post lunch walk waddling off  lunch it was a very good lunch oh my god  

let me tell you if you're looking for hearty food  you cannot go wrong with the venison soup because  

that was just delicious yeah my three-course meal  was as well i mean that's a really good restaurant  

everything we had was was a really high quality  and my goodness am i ever full i'm not used to  

having three courses for lunch so we really need  to go for a nice long walk yeah and for that we  

have chosen the french gardens which are kind  of just south of the old city of the old town  

and even though the name is the french gardens  apparently they have been modified to have more  

of an english landscape park style so once upon  a time they were french-looking now they're not  

very symmetrical in here yeah you have these two  beautiful avenues of linden trees and it is so  

green and just so quiet and yeah a beautiful  spot to check out for sure it really is

then we went back to our hotel where we noticed  we had been left a few treats so of course  

we had to do a little taste test for you guys  okay hello hello so we are back at the hotel and  

we're back for a little bit had a quick rest  um before we head out again for the evening  

but before we go out we wanted to show  you some little drinks and little treats  

yeah that the hotel gave us and also things we  acquired in town that's right okay so there are  

two mini bottles that we're going to show you  two little drinks like little schnapps this  

was a gift from the hotel and this is a bottle  that was gifted to us when we went to do a tasting  

so my goodness was this ever good it was really  one of my favorite hard liquor drinks i've ever  

had in my whole life yes that's how good it  was which one would you like to start with  

well let's start with the one we haven't tried  today okay so that one is called ratze putz  

and it says it's a brand name of a schnapps that  is produced here in celer and the flavor carriers  

are extracts of ginger root which are said to  have a beneficial effect on the stomach well  

we've been having our share of big meals so this  is my roots there you have it timely the bottle  

lovely nice color kind of like an amber they've  been making it for over a hundred years but you  

gotta look me in the eye when you say cheers  in germany kind of like the person in the eye

and you know what you need to do you need  to unscrew the cap oh i'm trying it too  

okay yeah of course you are this is 58 alcohol

oh that is a gingery treat hey  you take it easy it's 58 oh

my mouth is on fire oh my gosh that that activates  the cavities the ginger is is very strong i like  

this one i love anything that has ginger so  the strength of this is extremely potent so  

this should be something this is definitely  a digestive it warms it warms the mouth  

the tongue the throat the stomach definitely  a winter a drink something you can sip on a  

cold winter's day okay now let's try the other one  okay this one is from alta proviso um yeah we went  

into a shop when we were walking around the old  town we were doing a two-hour uh guided walking  

tour and this was one of our stops you know what  i love about this one it has a secret recipe yes  

this one talking about ingredients yes and there  was nothing revealed so yeah that's kind of cool  

exactly they would only tell us it has a ginger  flavor and yes it does that is the main thing  

you taste but there are other things happening  in the background okay that's right wait wait

cheers

oh yes this is the taste of christmas  oh does it taste stronger now than it  

did this afternoon or this morning when did we  do it you're just not used to these that's all  

wow so this one is 50 alcohol by volume so i'm  gonna be brutally honest i like them both but this  

this is a is a winner for me this one  this is something i would take home  

for personal consumption yeah or as a gift i i  just love this one this one is very nice it's i  

would say it's quite similar to the razza puts but  this one it's got a bit more of like a honey-like  

sensation that it produces in the mouth it's very  sweet i think it has potentially more ingredients  

too yeah it just has a it has a ginger and a and  a christmas blend of spices yeah that's how i  

would describe it they told us lots of herbs and  spices and sam actually guessed cinnamon as one  

of them but they wouldn't say yes or no since  no there wasn't to know maybe i'm inferring it  

yeah it might be a little cinnamon maybe it's very  good and that shop is a beautiful place to visit  

it used to be an old pharmacy where they would  produce medicinal drinks to give to people when  

they weren't feeling well yeah there's a beautiful  display in there there's a little tasting  

garden in the back definitely check it out  if you're visiting uh celle lower saxony  

and okay aside from that our hotel left  us a little platter with some fresh fruits  

i believe there were three macarons there were  more in the day maybe there was a a rodent that  

came for a nipple huh i had a pistachio one  oh brost frost try it and see how you like it

those macarons just melt in your mouth  so that was a nice little precursor  

to the meal we're going out we're going out for  dinner should we tell the people what we're having  

no keep it a surprise a surprise okay  this is weird for me but i think it's  

going to be great you can only eat it here so  we're doing it let's do it see you in a bit

so we are going for our evening stroll around  the town i've got to say this place is really  

quiet in the evenings like it was buzzing  in the days it's a bustling hive of activity  

it mind you it was a saturday afternoon that we  were here that's true there were performers cafes  

and restaurants were buzzing yeah and people were  out shopping and doing all kinds of things out on  

dates out with families it was a very lively  uh town center and that made for uh you know  

you just felt the the energy and the spirit of the  town and now by contrast it just feels like things  

are winding down there's a few people having an  early dinner like at a cafe or an outdoor patio  

but it's like you kind of have the streets for  yourself if that's what you enjoy when you travel

and then it was time for dinner  that evening we ate at tears  

which is technically a sports bar but they  served one of the town's specialty dishes  

roulade and what makes it special is that here in  celle germany it is eaten raw okay guys so this is  

the big surprise dish we were talking  about what we wanted to show you  

it's called the raw roulade so it is a super super  thin slice of beef and it's been rolled up with  

onions with gherkins and with mustard uncooked  okay some cracked pepper on top i think this is  

only the second time in my life i'm trying raw  beef first time was a few days ago in hamburg  

beef tartare they're like this is what we'll do  here keep the good times rolling keep them rolling

that's not bad yeah wow not bad  huh so i am surprised by how tender  

the meat is like when i chew it i don't know  i just imagine you know raw beef would be  

tough but it is not and then it's like  what is it like like i'm eating salmon wow  

that's amazing i can't wait to try it myself  in terms of the texture it reminds me like of  

a smoked salmon wow and just a combination of the  onions and that pickle juice and the mustard like  

that kind of sourness it really works i'm gonna  eat all of this like i came here thinking i might  

order this dish have a bite and not be able to  handle it but this is actually good wow i'm a raw  

beef eater now apparently look at that i don't  even know what to say and i got some potatoes i  

had the option of getting bread or potatoes with  my dish yeah i'm graceful i went for the potatoes  

hey dinner you went adventurous and  i'm going with the classic the spatula  

amazing cheesy goodness pasta look at that with  crispy onions on top gotta love that yeah this is  

a dish that's very popular in the south of germany  this puts like mac and cheese from north america  

to shame oh is so much better wow i just love the  texture of the spatula i love the crispiness of  

the onions that crunch that too we've had really  good luck with pub food in germany on this trip  

fantastic portions big big hearty portions  reasonable prices and good quality food so  

this is awesome yeah and that is it for our visit  to sale we hope this video gave you a few ideas  

of some of the attractions you can enjoy on a  brief visit as always if you enjoyed the video  

don't forget to subscribe and we'll see you  in the next episode where we visit another  

medieval town and go in search of more timber  framed houses more food and more adventures tata

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