June 12th
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L>R: Irene, Alex, Anna, Brian |
Today was a very fun day.
We started the day off with coffee at Alex’s apartment and then ate some
German pastries at a tiny local bakery.
We walked most of the morning and into the early afternoon all over
Hamburg. Alex was an excellent tour
guide with showing us some of the main parts of the city while telling us the history
and relevance including showing us his law school campus. That is where Anna, Alex’s girlfriend parted
ways with us to study in the library (she is a dental student). At this point we began to look around for
rental bicycles from rental stations that are scattered all over the city. Unfortunately we could not find four
unoccupied bicycles so we had to continue walking. Since it was a nice day I we predicted that
many people were out using them.
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Beach in Hamburg |
We took a late lunch break at one of Alex’s favorite
restaurants, a Thai restaurant in the St. Pauli district of the city, which
used and still is a famous red light district of the city. With lunch completed we continued walking
down to the harbor and drained a few beers before catching a ferry heading down
river to the beach. Shorty after arriving
we indulged ourselves by eating some fish sandwiches (cooked cold herring with
raw onions and horseradish sauce) and began walking down towards the beach. Not long into our walk we witnessed what we
had predicted about the rental bicycles, everyone decided to take them to the
beach today to take advantage of this wonderful weather. A little bit father of
a walk we found a nice shaded spot by a bar and had a few beers as we watched
the cargo ships load and pass by.
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Bicycle Ride |
Evening came and it was time to head back to the apartment
and meet up with Anna who had finished with her studying for the day so we
hopped back on the ferry and headed back up river. Since we had no trouble finding the rental
bicycles at this point, all four of us hopped on one and we rode back to the
apartment with Alex leading the way. I
hadn’t ridden a bicycle in years so with a combination of having drank a few
beers and being rusty, I was a little wobbly to say the least.
Dinner involved us grilling down by the river
while enjoying some beers. We purchased
our ingredients from the grocery store and headed down to a secluded spot by
the river and fired up our first grill. We
grilled kabobs and veggies, and ate a baguette and some olives. Our meal finished shortly after the sun
completely set, around 10:45 and then we returned to Alex’s apartment and called
it a day.
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Grilling by the River |
Happy you are happy.
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