Nh Hamburg-Altona

... shoot with the bottles but totally forgot.<br><br>Our last night in Hamburg (a Tuesday night I believe) we decided to go to the Red Light District. The RLD in Hamburg is the second biggest in Europe which is correlated with the size of their port. The rule with RLD's is that the bigger the port a city has, the more strippers and prostitutes they have. This is due to the lonely sailors and ship navigators who go into the ...

... full of vegetation. I really do love the country side in the countries I have been to. I was much surprised about the ferry ride that was also a part of this train trip. First we crossed this awesome bridge and then we actually pulled onto a boat. The train tracks went straight on the boat and after it stopped we all got out and went top side for a 45 min ride across the channel. This was a pretty cool surprise. It was my third boat trip of my travels.

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... boats but the view was pretty. It got windy on top of the boat so I eventually moved downstairs. Then we had 2 hours to walk around again. Took a quick look at the Reeperbahn and then Wendy, Soth, Steve and I went somewhere else. We found a huge statue of Otto von Bismark which was basically hidden from view due to the trees surrounding it. Then we walked through a park where most of the museums are located and ...

... place went nuts. They sure do love there soccer. Just as the game was finishing I was able to get on my train for Rostock and the ferry to Finland. Also it was on the train that I realized I am really starting to smell after the last 2 days. I mean I rode bikes in Luxembourg, train rides, walking Bremen, walking Hamburg and more train rides between them. I really would like a shower but that will have to wait for the boat.

... later on I stopped by again and got a Pferdewurst - also yumm!!<br><br>Thursday did a walking tour of Hamburg with New Europe. The tour is free and you just tip your guide how much you think it was worth. Went for 3 hours and was a very good tour covering old and new aspects of the city - definitely worth doing.<br>Went back and checked out the new philharmonic hall and St Nikolai memorial in more detail and took the lift to the top of the St Nikolai memorial ...

... watched an episode of the Sopranos and The Daily Show -- two of Hauke's favorites. Brilliant, so the rest of the world thinks we're a bunch of mobsters and big-mouth liberals. Unfortunately, I think this **** is our biggest export these days. I didn't sleep all that well, and woke up around 330AM, just in time to catch the 4th quarter of the Cavs - Hawks game on ESPN Gamecast! These guys are really making it look easy, as they wrapped up the sweep for the second straight series!

... onto a huge ship (with 100 other cars) for an hour long ferry ride on which we could eat and buy tax free goodies for our trip. Once the ferry dropped us off in Puttgarden, it didn't take long for us to learn that Germans drive a little different than the Swed's....we stayed in the right lanes and made it to Hamburg without any problems. Hamburg was interesting for a night, but we agreed that it was not the place for us. We ...

... made a circuit of the compact 'old town' area, and made a startling discovery - all the restaurants in town were absolutely packed, and displayed prices that, if paid, would leave us hitchhiking and staying in damp cardboard boxes for the rest of the trip. We finally bit the bullet and ate at an average Chinese restaurant located in the town square. Outside, a big band in a pavillion was playing the 'Darth Vader' theme as part of a Star Wars medley for an amassed ...

I now type another blog update on Charles' laptop here in wet and rainy Hamburg. Our hotel here does not have wireless internet, and we don't have enough time in Hamburg to visit an internet café, so this update might not be put online until we reach our hotel in Copenhagen, which should have wireless. This hotel is well located in that it is around the corner from the Hauptbahnhof ("main station" in English), however this is also coupled with other functions that tend to hang ...