Saturday morning in Detmold is apparently Market Day, and I've got to say that Detmold has an awesome market.  Not only was there a huge range of stuff (fruits, vegetables, flowers, meats, cheeses, crafts, antiques, books, etc.), but it extended for blocks and blocks.  It was fun, and there were a lot of people there, enjoying a beautiful morning.

Is it wrong of me that I'm so amused by the name of the butcher shop in Detmold?  You can see their cart at the market in the picture shown above:  "Kruel Meats".  Okay, I realize that "Kruel" is almost certainly the last name of the butcher, but somehow this just seems like something PETA would do!

The light was really bad on Saturday morning, so none of these pictures really do justice to how incredibly cute Detmold was.  It is a strange combination of architectural styles, and it was all really well-maintained.  Very sweet. 

There is a palace in Detmold, but I didn't take the tour, as I had a lot to do on Saturday.  The palace has an actual moat, which I have to admit I haven't seen very often in the standard tours of palaces and castles in Europe. 

I love mills--both the water kind and the wind kind.  (I was pretty excited when my hotel in Luxembourg was a former water mill, for example.)  So I was pretty impressed by this old mill in Detmold.  The building itself is astonishingly ornamented for something so functional as a mill.  There is a long inscription along the boards--you can see some of the words in a few of the pictures.  Anyway, it's a prayer; I saw this a lot in Detmold.

Today this old mill is a Tapas Bar.