This was kind of a lazy day. We hit a bakery on the way to the train station, and then it was time to get to Hamburg! I’d convinced Peter to stay at a Generator hostel very near the city, and it was WAY fancier than I had expected for the price. The rooms seemed like they were very cookie-cutter – the bathroom especially, since everything was tiny and molded together – but it was clean and convenient and had a lot of amenities downstairs.
But first! We had to walk around. Going off some of supper club Sarah’s recommendations, we tried to hit some of the more artsy sides of town, around Karolinenstrasse and Marktstrasse. There were plenty of funky shops and a really good place to get hot chocolate and some soup too. More than anything, the primary attraction in that area was the copious and very interesting graffiti on the buildings.
Eventually we wandered back to have some happy hour cocktails (3.50E in your own hotel? Pretty fancy) before setting out to see The Artist in Streit’s, a cool filmhaus. We had tried to see the English version in Berlin but had just missed it, and since it was a hot award winner, we wanted to see what the fuss was about. We got there early enough to reserve the best, center seats in the balcony, which were actually duo/loveseat seats. Very neat! The film itself was fairly cool, although the characters weren’t quite as fun as, say, the Thin Man.
Walking through the fog that night to get back was really cool and yielded a bunch of good photos. We also were just hungry enough to stop somewhere, and since it was quite late ended up in the train station (I’m telling you! Fancy!) for a knacker at Wurst & Durst. Of course we needed to eat a hamburger in Hamburg, and after seeing their burgers cook and the butter just oozing out of them, well, that was decided. Their burgers are made of pork and beef, and they serve it to you without the bun unless you ask, which was interesting. It was really good though!
But first! We had to walk around. Going off some of supper club Sarah’s recommendations, we tried to hit some of the more artsy sides of town, around Karolinenstrasse and Marktstrasse. There were plenty of funky shops and a really good place to get hot chocolate and some soup too. More than anything, the primary attraction in that area was the copious and very interesting graffiti on the buildings.
Eventually we wandered back to have some happy hour cocktails (3.50E in your own hotel? Pretty fancy) before setting out to see The Artist in Streit’s, a cool filmhaus. We had tried to see the English version in Berlin but had just missed it, and since it was a hot award winner, we wanted to see what the fuss was about. We got there early enough to reserve the best, center seats in the balcony, which were actually duo/loveseat seats. Very neat! The film itself was fairly cool, although the characters weren’t quite as fun as, say, the Thin Man.
Walking through the fog that night to get back was really cool and yielded a bunch of good photos. We also were just hungry enough to stop somewhere, and since it was quite late ended up in the train station (I’m telling you! Fancy!) for a knacker at Wurst & Durst. Of course we needed to eat a hamburger in Hamburg, and after seeing their burgers cook and the butter just oozing out of them, well, that was decided. Their burgers are made of pork and beef, and they serve it to you without the bun unless you ask, which was interesting. It was really good though!
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