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A Weekend to relax in Lower Saxony   After moving to Freiburg, I didn't have time to go back to Lower Saxony that often, so I was super happy to enjoy a long weekend with my best friend in Hanover. Since he had to work the Friday, I just started to explore the city - visiting the places, I haven't been for a while or haven't been at all - like the Buddhist pagoda. At first, I went to the Maschsee - an artificial lake situated in the South of the city centre of Hanover and a paradise for relaxing in the sun, having a coffee and a sandwich for breakfast. The name of the lake Maschsee stems from the so-called " Leinemarsch ", which means a kind of swamp, because the area, where the lake was built, was a deep-lying floodplain of the Leine river.      I enjoyed quite a long time around the lake, before I decided to walk to the area of the amazing and beautiful New Town Hall , a magnificient castle-like building, built between 1901 an 1913 in an electic style. The heigh