Moevenpick Hotel Hamburg

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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Traveled to Hamburg today and saw some amazing things. Left TU at7:30 for the 3 hrs bus ride.Traffic on the Autobahn. Saw some countryside, woods and farmland. It is very foggy here in the morning. Got to Hamburg and toured St. Michael's Kirche in the city. Walked the 300+ stairs up to the bell tower and got a fantastic view of the city!! I was so scared the entire way up because you could see through the stairs, it ...

... 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 ...

... years old!!).
Had a Duckstein in the beer garden at Schweinske but the food options looked grim with pizza, kebab, maccas, KFC or burger king being the only options - they didn't even have stalls selling wurst and bread rolls!!!

Went back to Deichstrasse which we passed on the walking tour and had some traditional local looking places to eat and sat down at Zum Brandenfang which is in the store that was cigar store that was the stareting point ...

Hamburg was nicer than I expected. Although it is quite modern it still has its own flavour of culture. It was mainly just a stopover but was surprised about how Hamburg was one of the most heavily hit by allied airforces during WW2 because it was the biggest port city in Europe. I visited the Nicolai memorial ...

After getting a good 8-9 hours of sleep, I woke up feeling great! I guess I was so tired the night before that I was pretty much able to reset my internal clock and avoid much jet-lag. But then again, I'm usually pretty good at it. For the morning, I started off walking toward downtown. I had my GPS with me, with a waypoint for Hauke's apartment, so I wasn't too worried about getting lost or where I might end up. Plus, there is a fairly tall TV tower near his place ...

... to a part of the city called St. Pauli, where they were lots of pubs, and a red-light district (hence the name of the beer and the picture on the label). We also played some Kicker (foose-ball) with a few people who took it easy on us and let us score a few goals. We walked around Hamburg a little while the next day, but then it was back on the road. I (jack) am driving and we are heading for Amsterdam...... Stay tuned! R & J

... cheering crowd. This clashed with the traditional Chinese music in the restaurant, creating quite a surreal atmosphere. I'm considering doing a remix. We got back to the hostel a few hours and beers later, and went straight to sleep. At about 2am, the only other resident in our dorm came back and decided that it was definitely time to launder every article of clothing that he owned in the sink. He also opted to do this wearing 'clack-clack-clacking' thongs. The sink ...

... train stations, specifically the 7 sex shops that are on the same block. Although our hotel isn't bad, it is currently under renovation, so during the day there is a bit of "noise pollution", and the water is misty with bubbles for a while before they go to the top and fizz out, making the water clear. The hallways also smell and when we arrived, the staff assigned us a new room because there was too much dust in the air on the first floor, where our original room was! Our room ...