First of all, no, I did not eat a hamburger today :)
Today was really our only full day in Hamburg, and Kelly's only full day in Germany. It feels kind of nice to be back in Germany since I have been trying to say "danke" to everyone since I arrived in Scotland on the 14th. I have spent way more time in Germany on this trip than I ever anticipated, but I am actually really glad. I have picked up more German words than I ever thought I would, and German food is really good. the only downside right now is the rain. Ugh so much rain. And to top it all off I left my rain coat in London, so I just have to deal with getting wet. Luckily the coat is already en route back to California thanks to the people at the hostel there.
Anyways, back to Hamburg! This morning Kelly and I took a free walking tour of the city. When I got up it didn't look like rain and my (not-so-)trusty iPhone weather app said no rain until 4pm! Perfect, I thought. So we headed out to the city hall area to begin the Sandemann's New Hamburg free tour. Of course it started raining about 10 minutes into the 3.5 hour tour, but we dealt with it. We saw many of the important sites in Hamburg from the city hall to St. Peter's church that has been left in ruins from WWII bombs as a memorial against war and violence. I think that was my favorite thing we saw today. I have been thinking about how the German cities should have left some things as they looked after the war to show the destruction that was caused, but this is the first place I have actually seen it. We stopped for a long lunch in the middle of the tour to escape the then pouring rain, and by the time we were done we miraculously had dry weather, and continued the tour much more happily.
After the tour ended Kelly and I walked around a bit before heading to her first German biergarten! We hung out there for a bit before heading back towards the hauptbanhoff to pick up Kelly's train ticket for tomorrow. Little did we know this would be a huge ordeal, so we went back to the hostel for a minute first. One we looked at the train reservations she had printed out we headed out to get her a charm and them went back to the train station where we waited forever to get her ticket printed out, but at least we have it now.
After the train ticket fun we got cheap pizza bread things for dinner and headed back to the hostel to relax since we are still erects beat for some reason. I think the dreary weather tends to make us extra tired! So, tomorrow we have a few hours to finish exploring Hamburg before we embark on a quite long journey to Amsterdam!
Today was really our only full day in Hamburg, and Kelly's only full day in Germany. It feels kind of nice to be back in Germany since I have been trying to say "danke" to everyone since I arrived in Scotland on the 14th. I have spent way more time in Germany on this trip than I ever anticipated, but I am actually really glad. I have picked up more German words than I ever thought I would, and German food is really good. the only downside right now is the rain. Ugh so much rain. And to top it all off I left my rain coat in London, so I just have to deal with getting wet. Luckily the coat is already en route back to California thanks to the people at the hostel there.
Anyways, back to Hamburg! This morning Kelly and I took a free walking tour of the city. When I got up it didn't look like rain and my (not-so-)trusty iPhone weather app said no rain until 4pm! Perfect, I thought. So we headed out to the city hall area to begin the Sandemann's New Hamburg free tour. Of course it started raining about 10 minutes into the 3.5 hour tour, but we dealt with it. We saw many of the important sites in Hamburg from the city hall to St. Peter's church that has been left in ruins from WWII bombs as a memorial against war and violence. I think that was my favorite thing we saw today. I have been thinking about how the German cities should have left some things as they looked after the war to show the destruction that was caused, but this is the first place I have actually seen it. We stopped for a long lunch in the middle of the tour to escape the then pouring rain, and by the time we were done we miraculously had dry weather, and continued the tour much more happily.
After the tour ended Kelly and I walked around a bit before heading to her first German biergarten! We hung out there for a bit before heading back towards the hauptbanhoff to pick up Kelly's train ticket for tomorrow. Little did we know this would be a huge ordeal, so we went back to the hostel for a minute first. One we looked at the train reservations she had printed out we headed out to get her a charm and them went back to the train station where we waited forever to get her ticket printed out, but at least we have it now.
After the train ticket fun we got cheap pizza bread things for dinner and headed back to the hostel to relax since we are still erects beat for some reason. I think the dreary weather tends to make us extra tired! So, tomorrow we have a few hours to finish exploring Hamburg before we embark on a quite long journey to Amsterdam!
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