We took an IC train from Heidelberg to Hamburg and it took about 6 hours to get there. Greg, Liv, and I read and talked on the train ride and it wasn't bad at all. I even got a lesson about the architecture of north german houses versus south german houses from Greg. Very intellectually stimulating train ride. We got into the train station around 3:30 and our hostel was supposed to be a ten minute walk, but we printed directions and not a map. On top of that, it was raining and we had our luggage in addition to our backpacks. After an hour and a half of trying to find the hostel, we finally went back to the train station and started again using different directions and found the hostel within ten minutes. It was so frustrating.
After drying off for a little while, we ventured back out in search of food. We walked about half an hour into the old city and ate at an italian restaurant. The food and wine were good and Greg and I ended up having a debate over dinner that lasted for two hours and spilled into the street, so we wandered around for a while before heading back to the hostel and calling it an early night, so we could get up early the next day to sight-see.
We woke up early to get breakfast at the hostel, but then realized it wasn't included like we thought. So we walked to the train station in search of something that would be open. We got pastries and walked to the enormous art museum, but even it wasn't open yet. We were a few of the first people inside and stayed for more than 3 hours. It was an amazing museum and I felt like it was never going to end. After the art museum, we got something quick to eat and walked to three different churches to study their architecture. On the way we stopped to watch a protest against Scientology, where all the protestors were wearing Guy Faulkes masks, but they were a few days late, haha. They were interspersed throughout the city and we ended up walking a lot and getting stuck somewhere where there wasn't much to eat. We finally found a chain german restaurant and settled in for a while. The food was good and we ordered the local beer, which I liked a lot actually. We even got apple strudel. After we had sat for over two hours, we figured we were ready to do some more exploring and venture to Hamburg's famous red light district. We had already walked a lot on Saturday and it was a far walk to St. Pauli. We walked around the street for a while and just enjoyed being tourists before heading back for the night. It took us almost an hour and a half to walk back to the hostel and my feet were burning by the time we did get there. I passed out as soon as my head hit the pillow.
On Sunday we knew much wasn't going to be open so we got up a little later and had breakfast at the hostel. We walked to the harbor after breakfast and just hung out for a while looking around. Then we walked into the city and decided to take a 2 hour boat tour. After the boat tour, it was too early for dinner, so we window shopped and sat at a cafe. Then we tried to go to a german bar for dinner, but we walked for a while in the rain and nothing was open, so we decided to just have Italian again. We stayed at dinner for over three hours, enjoying our last night in Hamburg. I actually got China spaghetti and it was really good. We walked back to the hotel pretty early and just hung out for a few hours talking and playing 20 questions. We went to bed early, because we woke up at 7 to get the train.
The train was an ICE, so it was even faster than the one going to Hamburg. We got to Heidelberg by 2 and Liv and I went to the study center. We hung out for a little while, and then got an early dinner before ping-pong, but alas third time was not the charm. Again, we couldn't find it, but this time we were determined. We finally found the reason, we had been showing up two hours late. It started at 4, not 6. Next week we will finally taste victory!
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