Scandic Hotel Luebeck Lübeck

... days that had been around, the day we went to Hamburg was beautiful! Nice sunny weather and the temperature was bareable unlike the other days, so much so that I felt hot in my jacket!! So we looked around the port of Hamburg, and I saw the old building that used to be the hospital Nanny worked at many many years ago, etc. We also went to this (now museum type thing) of an old typical Hamburg house from way back. It was tiny! And the stairs to get upstairs were ...

... do.

So New Jersey's finest said, "Oh good. DO... YOU... KNOW... IF... THERE... IS... FOOD... IN... THIS... CITY?" No lady, this is 1946 Gdansk where people are starving amidst bombed out rubble. I just told her, "Yes." and didn't elaborate any further. She asked the wrong question...not where she could eat, just if there was food. I was looking forward to screwing with these old hefers.

She made a face I can't even describe and then ...

... to learn a little bit of German or else use sign language because few could speak English. I liked it, it made it more real. I felt like the only foreign tourist in the whole place. It was very peaceful, and the hostel quiet with only one other occupant in my room.

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After 4 days in Lubeck, we headed down to Travemünde, a beach and harbor city on the coast of Germany. In Trave, among things, we visited Germany's Knotts Berry Farm: Hansapark!! :-)

Germany is a great country with lots of culture!
I strongly recommend a visit there!... We will be back for sure...

Please enjoy our pictures!... :-)

XOXO, Tamara

Monday 15th June. Leaving Berlin area we headed northeast up through the countryside and went on the hunt for the internationally renowned STEIN DINSE, what you don't know them, well sufficed to say if you rode a Guzzi you would. We then went mouse hunting to a town called Hamlyn famous for the legend of the pied piper of Hamlyn. We stopped here for 2 hours and wandered about ...

... second pizza...and then the third. I finished my .5 liter beer and he drank his whole liter of milk. Needless to say, we were both really full. After that we went down to the fourth floor of his building. For the last few nights, that is where most of the partying has gone on, but neither of us had really been down there. We got down there at about 2100 and just chatted while our stomachs settled. After a while we had a shot of Sambuca with Mark and Eric (who ...

... what a digital thermometer uses to take a continuous range of values like temperature and turn it into a discrete value proportional to the temperature on a give scale, and a thing called a phase locked loop, which I was extremely excited to see on the syllabus because I had to troubleshoot PLLs when I was at CalTronics. I was also able to score some brownie points by knowing what it was and what it is used for (keeping the frequency and ...

... to eat that doesn't look sketchy. I can take a shower without worrying about the water getting in my mouth. No one is trying to snatch my wallet out of my pocket as I go about my daily life. And you know what? I actually kind of miss the challenges of daily living in places as diverse as Delhi and Cape Town. Even though the calendar says I am almost ...

... Polish where the Wizzair bus was. They marveled at how well I spoke English with such a nice American accent and I just didn't have the heart to disappoint them by telling them I was in fact the real deal. After some debate with the Brtis if we were in the right place or not, a tiny 12 seat shuttle bus finally showed up for about 20 of us who were waiting. As soon as the tiny purple van stopped every seat was taken in one giant push. I was ...

... town Lübeck is a very nice town unfortunately there was one problem everyone was German!! we found the spot were they were showing Live Earth the night previously and walked around Ralph loved it especially the window displays. Then a quick train to Hamburg to meet the parents!! We arrived in Hamburg around midday in the class sunshine and decided to walk around and see what was happening it turned out that alot was happening even though it was Sunday and all shops were closed. We ...