Ohhh Hamberg!

We checked into our 'psychedelic' hostel in Hamberg and were very interested in seeing what this place was about. We met our new friend Peter who had designed each and every one of the rooms with a different, over-the-top theme. Jim's room had one whole wall of zebra wall paper, while our room was decked out in bright pink, flowers, and beads over the window. A very fun place to be!





We then hit the streets to
explore. Unfortunately Mother Nature wanted to rain on our parade. With umbrellas out and rain coats on, we headed down to see the harbor. We decided to sit on one of the floating docks under cover and have some fish and chips (we were told that we needed to try to seafood). Pretty delicious.



Once the rain calmed down we walked around the city and found a 'beach party'. Since it's cold most of the time and there aren't to many beaches found in Germany, they like to recreate the beach scene in the center of town. They have music, lounge chairs, and little cabana bars posted up in the center square. The funny thing about it was..right as we were going to sit down and enjoy, a torrential rain storm came up! So we retreated inside.

The next morning we went downtown to explore some of the things our travel book told us not to miss. One of them was the in the Platz der Kinder, 'The Bullenhuser Damm Memorial', which is a rose garden planted in honor of children who were subject to medical experiments during WWII. The designer of this memorial did a great job putting up plaques in honor of each child as well as a description of who they were and where they came from. It was a very sad memorial, but opened our eyes to the injustice that was happening. It was kind of surreal because there is a playground located right behind the memorial, so as you are walking through you hear children laughing in the background and playing. I think it is a sign that gives us hope for a better future.


We also visited the 'Planten un Bloomen' which is the biggest Japanese Garden in all of Europe. The rain held off just long enough for us to enjoy and then we headed off to our last stop BERLIN!!!



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Location:Hamburg,Germany