Kathleen
Hamburg, Germany – August 1, 2013
I bet you didn’t know that Hamburg is Germany’s second largest city after Berlin….we didn’t either but were interested to learn about it and experience this budding metropolis for the first time. This is another city where there is a healthy dose of both the old and the new as well as streets structured to accomodate both pedestrians and bikers. Bikers seem to rule traffic in this and many areas of Germany so that you find as a pedestrian your focus is more on trying to avoid being run over by a bicycle than by a car. We managed to pay extra attention and made it through our one day there unscathed. We enjoyed walking around the city and a couple of its parks as well as the very large lakes that are right in the middle of town and able to be enjoyed by boaters or by diners along its edges. We opted to dine here ourselves and take in the vibrant summer feeling of sharing this city with its local inhabitants in the summer time. We are certain there is much to see in Hamburg, but we were pressing on to get to the apartment we had rented for a week in the Mosel valley and only allowed ourselves one night in Hamburg followed by one night in Hannoversch Munden, which was on the way, if difficult to pronounce 🙂
