It Doesn’t Snow in Hamburg!!

Uh huh…So, I have an amazing array of stories to tell from our 7 hour lay over at Schiphol Airport until we boarded the train to go to Hamburg, but first, I have to get over the fact that the z and the y are switched on this key board and that all the punctuation is all over the place. So, if something is a typo, get over it!

Today was our first full day in Germany and Hamburg. The day started out a little earlier than I would have liked, but as it was German Bee’s only full day with us, we wanted to spend the whole day with her. Turns out, almost everyone gets Easter Monday off here. Interesting. Anyway, we had a traditional German breakfast of Hard Boiled Egg in one of those egg cuppy things, which I’ve never understood the use for, and now I do, toast, rolls with cheese and meat, and fruit. It was great. We got ready and left the house. Oh yeah, it’s cold here!

As we boarded the train, I looked out the window. Guess what? It was SNOWING. I’m calling a huge BS on German Bee’s weather assessment. We rode the train to a station and booked a double decker bus tour. We got on, except the guide spoke only German. That was interesting. Brother Bee and I began making up our own commentary: Here’s a lovely yellow brick wall, you can see the parking garage, this is where I typically park my car for this job…or…Ah yes, this is the famous kirsche where you can see the hole in the tarp where they are renovating, someone must have jumped. German Bee was none too impressed. She made us get off so we could wait for the bus that spoke English. It was very disturbing to her that they didn’t speak English, so we got off, waiting a half and hour, and got on the next one. Which did speak English, but it was a recording that most of the time was about 5 blocks ahead of what we were looking at. Still very interesting.

After that we toured a bit of the Speicherstadt area, trying to get into Hamburg Dungeon…more about that later, but it was booked (a 45 min. wait to get in). So we hiked up Michaeliskirche, 300 stairs of pure quad workout until we got to the top to see the whole city. Good thing it was snowing, otherwise our view might not of been quite so…foggy. 

Finally at the end of the day, we went to dinner at German Bee’s house. It was great. 3 courses of pure German food. Pumpkin soup, pork with veggies, more veggies, and dessert of cream and chocolate. Yum!

Oh, and it snowed the whole day. I’ll show you pictures.

Now, I’m exhausted. I’ll post some pictures tomorrow.