Dorint Novotel Hamburg Alster

... around a pole located on top of the bar. <br><br>This bar was fun, had good music, and the best thing of all was Dane had the DIS credit card. He bought a few round of shots for everyone; also something that would never happen back in the States. We stayed there for a while and just danced around. Eventually we left out of boredom and searching for something more risque. We walked by this one place and there was a man ...

Once I was back at the station and on my way back to Munich I was much more at ease. I also meet a few other San Diegans on the train. They are a couple of students from USD who are studding in Copenhagen and are taking a break for a week to travel. They are pretty cool and we chatted a bit but at last I sat down for the 5 hour ride to Hamburg and watched a movie. I also must mention that the scenery was really nice. It was similar to Germany, green ...

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... never been so hard for me to go up stairs in my life. I took the elevator down haha! We actually had good weather for most of the day. We then had about an hour to ourselves so we walked down to the harbor and ate lunch at a cute café, I had a decent curry wurst. Then we had a 90 minute boat tour of the harbor. Hamburg is the 2nd largest harbor in Europe which I did not know before today! Lots of cargo ships and ...

... able to see the entire city; it was like being on Mount Solidad in San Diego. I could see where I walked and also were I wanted to walk next. So when we landed I took off for that direction and found the other city center around the river/lake in the center of town. It was really nice to see a ton of people hanging out and just chilling. I continued to walk and came upon the Rathause, city government building, a ...

... called Hamburger Labskaus "Seemans Art" mit Spiegelei, Matjes und Gewurzgurke which was corned beef, red cabbage or beetroot (kinda got a bit confused there), potato and cucumber all blended together witha fried egg on top served with pickled herring, gherkin and onions.<br>Doesn't look too appetising but it was really yummo.<br><br>I was never a fan of the pickled herring the1 time I triedit in Sydney, but after eating it a few times in Denmark and Germany I ...

... a place in need of a mousetrap to me! Then I wondered up along Lake Alster, before heading back to the apartment. Along the way I stopped for a brat, kraut, and mashed potatos. Yum. In the afternoon, Hauke's roommate, Sebastian, and I went down to the Harbor, for the Harbor Festival. There were people everywhere! While we were there a boat parade took place, with everything from a battleship, to a barge (complete with a party going on!), to several clipper ships ...

... Fischerhaus. This quaint waterfront restaurant serves up local fish specialties to a steady stream of diners. Hotel: $ 467 Food: $ 30 Museum: $ 9 Day 3 Museum Fur Volkerkunde Today I was going to go to the Museum Fur Volkekunde, it seemed very different from ...

... couple of excellent museums and galleries before the corks in my nose came loose, so that's something. The Dutch (when speaking Dutch), sounded uncannily to our ears like they were speaking English backwards, giving most exchanges we overheard a kind of 'Bizarro World' feel. This gave hanging out in coffee shops an interesting and enjoyable dimension, and cheered me up considerably. Before reaching Amsterdam, we had decided to stop off a couple more towns, namely ...

... we are not sure exactly what the problem was as the delay announcements were only in German. Departing now 25 minutes late, the train changed direction to depart the way we arrived, before taking a different track to speed south, making one last stop before the full high speed 300km/h run down to Frankfurt Flughafen. One of the great features of the ICE3 (and Tilting "ICET") trains is the info display in each carriage, and info screens in the vestibules (door areas), that ...