Dorint Mercure Messe Hamburg

... place where the homeless can meet their drug addictions in a safe way in order to prevent transmittable diseases, and hopefully turn those addictions into nothing.

Do you know where places similar to these are in your community? Where do those who cannot make ends meet get food for the week? For the day? Where are the street corners where they ask for money? Where do their children play? Or better yet, where are they? Most communities have people that struggle to make ...

... knitted goods, amazing food, cheese, jellies and jams, cookies, chocolate, pottery, etc. It was a great place to buy Christmas gifts. We got Glühwein for the first time and ate gingerbread cookies. We took another short nap at the Hostel and watched CNN on the tv and watched the NYSE open in the US. We found an awesome restaurant to got to dinner, the ...

... House (steak) that sold burgers, and I explained to Pam that most German’s will eat all food with a fork and a knife, even a hamburger and pizza. Then we walked around some more, and finally found some ice cream in one of the many malls we found. I had to keep Pam awake for 3 more hours before she was allowed to go to bed (at 9pm), so we talked and attempted to play 20 questions which didn’t go so well.

... course we won!

And our shows in Berlin went so well! I love Berlin!

On Thursday (19th) we had a great tour of Berlin! We visited the Brandenburg Gate (the main entrance way into Berlin), Hitler's bunker (or at least stood on top of it), the Berlin Wall (what's left of it) and...

Hotel Adlon!

Not familiar with Hotel Adlon? Well, are you familiar with the place where Michael Jackson hung the baby off the ...

... Kathrin. We had a great time and met up with Therese (Sweden) and her host sister. We went to a huge amusement park called "Dom", which is only open 3 times per year, and rode on this huge ride that spun and twirled and twisted Therese and I around for about 8 minutes.

How do I know it was 8 minutes?

I filmed the whole thing ...

Wie oft habe ich mir diesen Moment in den letzten nunmehr fast genau achteinhalb Monaten vorgestellt...
Nachdem Nina es auf Tene doch tatsaechlich geschafft hat mich in den Flieger zu kriegen ist der Landeanflug auf meine Hansestadt natuerlich standesgemaess norddeutsch:
Regen, Kaelte, Wolken, Sturmboen...obwohl wir direkt ueber die City anfliegen ist draussen leider gar nichts zu erkennen. Alles grau in grau.
Das erste mal als ich den Boden ...

... attractive fluro orange lifeys. i think it took one of them at least 30s to complete a tack. picked up bex from the train station when we dropped off caro, after geting caught is a massive storm! we heard the thunder when we were soaking up the sun on the lake, but passed it off as a train, wasnt untill we looked up and saw that there were no train tracks nearby that we started to run!! The repperbahn is st pauli is something ...

... He asked if I had a place to stay and in moments we were walking down the street to his apartment that he shared with another Herränger, Arne. If my meeting Fabian wasn't coincidence enough, when I met him he was on his way to a swing party to look at pictures and video of Herräng. So we dropped my stuff off and headed across town to that. We met the Hamburg Hoppers the bottom floor of an office building and I mingled with the slightly familiar faces before the ...

... I also got to meet the coach and watched ESPN do their interviews and standups. It was alot of fun to see it live. I wandered around the city a bit and ended up going out with a huge group that night. They were mostly staff, but some of the players came out too and bought drinks all night! I walked out of the club at about 6am, into total day and had to catch my train to Copengagen by 730. I sortof missed that train, but caught the next one... barely.

... being out we saw the smallest car I had ever seen. I could have sworn it was just a fancy golf cart. Later we learned it was just a Smart Car, but before they made it to America years later I was amazed by it. It was a rainy day so we didn't spend too much time out side but instead learned a lot about German television, which can be summed up as confusing. Next day we woke up and headed to the station to catch the train to Copenhagen.