10 SVENSKA POSTEN TORSDAGEN DEN 10 SEPTEMBER 1936 OLD TIMES AND NEW By Henning Holmstrom The voyage to Lubeck, where we arrived early in the forenoon on the following Monday, was rather un-eventful, except that we about twen-ty-four hours after leaving Stockholm called at Kalmar, leaving there a few hours later after discharging some cargo and taking on some oth-er, besides a few more emigrants, among whom I especially remember two or three young sailors accom-panied by one of more mature age, who had been in America before. The German coast (at least in the vicinity of Lubeck) is very low and flat, just a trifle higher than the surface of the sea; which scantiness in height above the water seemed to have influenced builders and owners of boats and barges trafficking the river Trave, on whose banks the city is built. This river is not very wide nor of great length, yet there was a large amount of freight being ship-ped on it in open barges, which were loaded down so deep that from the deck of our steamer it looked as though there were less than six inches of freeboard above the water; for which reason steamers coming in had to. go incredibly slow in order not to swamp them, large and heavy as they were. It must have taken us over two hours to come the distance of ten miles from the coast up the river to the city. From now on we were in the “rom-pany” board and were treated to our first noonday meal before we left Lubeck. I have forgotten the bill of fare, but I remember that there were Lima beans in the soup—the first time I ever saw those large white beans. The meal was very good, however. After dinner Mrs. E.’s brother, the man from Åland, and the writer took a look at the town, yet since we had but a couple hours to spare before train time, we could not make a thorough job of it.. Since Lubeck is a very *old city— one of the old Hanse towns-—there must be several buildings, especially churches, whose interiör architecture as well as the exteriör, would have been worth seeingj but time n