Bremen Shopping

If you like outlet shopping, there is one just outside Bremen. Good for fashion and sports clothes. I bought two nice things for a good price.

Open Mon-Fri from 10-19 hrs
Saturday: 10-18 hrs
The following Sundays from 13-18 hrs:
- 03.04.2011
- 02.10.2011
- 06.11.2011
- 08.01.2012

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Everyone seems to know this place,but since everyone only talks about their chokolade,I must tell you:Go upstairs!If you love tea,like I do,there´s a lot of choises!i bought 6 different!We also found good nougat(littele like fudge in Britain) upstairs.

What to buy: Chokolade,nougat and tea

What to pay: Tea is 3,20 for 100g and 1,60 for 50g.Chokoladees are many prices.

The Sögestrasse is the obvious street going from the Marktplatz to the train station.

It still has some of the traditional shops of Bremen (like a hidden konditorei).

The pig statues at the end of the street are a public attraction.

Lots of souvenir items, tiny, small and big are available in the stalls at the fair of Ischa Freimarkt. I came across, small souvenir bottles of Beck's beer, the stadtmusicians, statue of Roland and even soft toys of the Stadtmusicians. For myself, I got a tiny little flag of Bremen from a shop at the main station.

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While walking across the Schnoor area, I noticed a lot of small shops selling souvenirs, gift items, jewelleries and even warm woollens. A view from outside seemed really interesting although I did not prefer to go inside for lack of time.

1) Souvenirs of the Bremer Stadtmusikanten are the same everywhere – what you see around the Dom is pretty much what’s available. 2) I don’t think there’s a really well-done mini statue available anywhere, but there are a lot of truly bad ones. 3) The same item costs the same everywhere; maybe marginally less in the Marktplatz. (Even if you buy something, get your picture taken with the real thing, and be sure to touch the donkey’s foot for luck.)

Beyond the statue:
· there’s a larger store at the northeastern end of the Böttcherstrasse that has some good reproductions of old etchings and modern drawings of Bremen and the local sights (they aren’t cheap)
· there are a couple of places that sell small bottles of some of the wines available in the Ratskeller (supposed to be a great collection)
· Hachez chocolates are divine (the store is located just northwest of the Marktplatz on the main road leading in)
· there’s a small shop at the Dom end of Schnoor that specializes in souvenirs of the seagoing merchant history of Bremen and Bremerhaven with models of ships in and out of bottles, of all sizes and quality of construction

Bremen's Rathaus has one of Germany's best wine cellars and you can buy these wines from the shop at the rear of the Rathaus. It's the type of ship where you know you'll probably have to buy something just for looking and it's probably more expensive than the local supermarkets. Nevertheless, a great place for buying presents.

Karstadt is the biggest department store at Bremen.
As far as I can recall it's there next to the market.

It has a great buffet restaurant.
The Musik Laden CD store in the basement is fabulous.

What to buy: Whatever you want; it's all there.