Hamburger

We arrived into Hamburg on a public holiday. In Germany a public holiday means a public holiday, no shops are open, thankfully restaurants and bars are open, but otherwise it was an odd day to arrive. There were not many people around the main streets but as we got further into the city there were more people around.

We could not check into our hotel until 2pm and when we did we got given a really dodgy room! Unfortunately due to the public holiday rooms in Hamburg were really limited and we chose this hotel as a bit of a last resort, having said that though, we paid $190 a night. The room they gave us had attic windows and was super hot, the windows barely closed and the Venetian blinds were all falling apart, there was also a utility cupboard in the room with some sort of electrical switchboard. The bathroom was sort of across a hall way, it was obvious we had been given a different room to what we paid for. We went to complain and got told we could move the next day. The next part of the story is probably a little horrible for me to include in my blog, but let's just say, we finally got given a different room. It was slightly better, however some mould spray might have been handy in the shower, certainly not to Merry Megsy's standard of cleanliness!!

We spent most of our time in Hamburg around the Harbour area, it is a nice city but quite industrial. We went up the church spire, the lift made me feel quite ill, it was very high!

We ventured into the red-light district known as the reeperbahn, let's just say that was interesting!

We enjoyed a last German meal last night, weiswurst & leberkasse! We had a few wheat beers too!

This morning we are on the train to Amsterdam. Our train is full of young girls heading off to play a hockey match, giggling and irritating! Thank god for iPods! We change trains in 2hrs so I'm sitting back listening to the Foo Fighters, always a good way to drown out the noise of small children!