"Castle" Ahrensburg

I organized an event in April: a visit to a castle in the north of Hamburg in a place called Ahrensburg. It is a small village, since many years part of Hamburg. 22 students. A group of both old and new people, both master and exchange. The countries would be: France, Guatemala, Italy, India, Columbia, Sweden, Turkey, Venezuela, Serbia, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, China and Malaysia. Nice, isn't it?

The place can be reached by regional train (R10) from the central station in 25 min. Arrived at the castle i had to talk with the responsible person to arrange everything for the tour of the castle while the others were busy taking pictures with the castle.
The woman who was going to be our guide asked me, being happy to see people interested in the history of the place, 'Do you have time or u are in a hurry?' :P
So although the castle was pretty small she gave us a tour for 1 1/2 h going farther in her stories telling us why the women in that times were holding their fan in a particular way. To hide the fact that she was nervous, maybe because she didn't seem to have the chance to talk in english very often, she made the tour more or less interactive: bringing into the discussion other countries, inviting people to dance on a waltz u.a.
Even if the rain wanted to accompany us back to the train station nobody seemed to be bothered about it.

It was a nice event. I am glad to have organized it.

The 2 posters:

The original idea was to write only 100 pennies, respectively 100 Pfennige, but my boss said they will not understand that it means 1 Euro.. so i put also the 'Euro' word, which brought more confusion bcs people thought the trip costs 100 Euros. :))
Well.. i dont know which one would have been better.

The way to the castle..


And the castle..





PS: The guide told us that actually it isn't a castle because no king lived there, but 'only' a count. More about the Ahrensburg Castle here.