Hamburg

A couple of weekends ago, I managed to visit Hamburg to see a new place in Germany. It's the second largest city in Germany, so I'd felt like that was missing from the list of places I'd been here. It has easy transportation connections from Berlin though, so I took the train up. I didn't know anyone there, so I'd just made a central hotel accomodation to check out the city. Pretty interesting. It's a very large port so it has a large harbor for ship-building and fishing. It also has a pretty international feel there because of all the different people a large port brings. The city was much more centralized than Berlin; you don't have to go very far from the city center to see most of the things of note. If Berlin is Techno, then Hamburg is Heavy Metal. Anyway, the city had a pretty interesting feel. The Reeperbahn is kind of the center of party scene in Hamburg and that place is no joke. One of the most interesting things was the fishmarket. Here is one of the salesmen selling some eels. They don't taste too bad.

The salesmen get really into selling their particular fish (or whatever product) and so it's become a big attraction there. They are always yelling something or another about how they sell the cheapest and the freshest and the guy next to them sells overpriced, rotten fish. Makes for an interesting atmosphere. Also, below here is a photo from a barber shop in Hamburg. Staying with the previous theme that Germans love the Simpsons. I guess they are claiming that the hair stylists there can bring about a similar transformation to you, as seen with Marge here. I didn't try it out, but I like the advertising effort.