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By TanyaWWW
May 2nd 2008

Lubeck and Hamburg

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entrance to the centre of Lubeck

Another weekend away... It was a long weekend, and so (like every other Aussie who lives in London) Bel and I felt that we needed to take the opportunity to explore a new country. I'd never been to Germany, and that, combined with the fact we could find decently priced flights, determined that we would go visit Hamburg. The flight over was quite fun because we made friends with 3 Irish boys who were seated across the aisle from us, and once we landed we swapped numbers with promises to catch up the next night. Cue one big Saturday night out [View Full Entry]

By kifandpeter
April 30th 2008

German Adventures Part 1

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Hello all, Sorry it's been so long, since the last update, but we have had difficulties finding computers and finding the time to get down to this. We left Katrina in Denmark on April 28, and headed south into Germany. As soon as we hit Germany, we saw hills! We hadn't seen hills since we flew out of Vancouver so it was great to see them rather than a flat expanse such as Saskatchewan. That's right, I went there! We passed through Felnsburg, which is where they built the new Vancouver ferries so that was kind of cool. We arrived in [View Full Entry]

By sonjaundhelfi
April 29th 2008

Reiseblog vollständig

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Tschüss, bis bald

Hallo ihr fleißigen Leser, der Reiseblog ist nun vollständig. Ich musste so einige Einträge hier zu Hause machen, da das mit den Internetcafes immer so eine Sache ist. Für diejenigen, die einen Mail-Newsletter abonniert haben: Ich habe die letzten Einträge per "Quiet Publish" veröffentlicht, damit ihr nicht mit Mails bombardiert werdet. Der letzte Eintrag, der euch per E-Mail mitgeteilt wurde war "Nein, wir haben gekniffen". Ab "Ach Mensch, diese Amis..." geht's dann weiter im Text. Dieser Eintrag ist aber schon nicht mehr auf der ersten Seite, dazu müsst ihr einmal zurück blättern. Wenn ic [View Full Entry]

By Venusattack
April 27th 2008

Day 30 - Hamburg, Germany

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View of Hamburg from St Michaelis church

Morning: Construction sounds again at 8am!! God, these people get to work so early!! Slept late last nite and got woken up by them again. Today the kids go to their kindergarten and we will take a walk around Hamburg ourselves. So we got ready and ate breakfast and left shortly after Seth went off for his meeting, leaving poor Oscar behind to guard the apartment. Afternoon: First visited the St. Michaelis church and took a lift up to the tall tower to view the Hamburg city. Actually it's nothing special so we didn't spend too much time on it so [View Full Entry]

By Venusattack
April 24th 2008

Day 28 - Bremen to Hamburg, Germany

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Simone's Apartment 1

Morning: This morning we woke up at 9am to have breakfast w Simone before she left for her work and have a quick chat w her. She left for work and we got ready to leave at abt 11am. We planned to cover this small area called Ostertopark, a student town but became an expensive area instead cos the graduated students came back to buy the houses there. There's 2 rows of shophouses along the main street so we just walked along it, unfortunately at this time, there is a major construction on the tram roads and it was really noisy [View Full Entry]

By Venusattack
April 24th 2008

Day 29 - Hamburg, Germany

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Having sausage break

Morning: Got woken up by lots of sounds, the construction work upstairs, the kids talking and people walking outside the house. What a lively place! Today we will all take a day trip out to the harbour w the kids and Oscar so we took it really slowly cos it takes time to get everybody ready. At 11am, the construction people and owner of the apartment upstairs came down to have a chat w Seth cos they are going to attach a pipe down thru his house. The chat took 1hr and the kids were getting restless and we were getting [View Full Entry]

By Studium in Berlin
April 18th 2008

Hamburg, die Hafenstadt

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Hamburg by night
The view of the harbor from our youth hostel was incredibly pretty when it wasn't raining!

Through the program that I studied with for the semester we traveled as a group on a weeklong excursion first to Hamburg and then to Copenhagen, Denmark. The first three days were spent in Hamburg, which is only an hour and a half away from Berlin by train, and as Germany’s second largest city (after Berlin) and Germany’s largest port city (although, since Germany isn’t exactly surrounded by water, the power of the statistic is questionable) it is a very interesting and busy industrial harbor city. We arrived Friday March 28 in Hamburg, the harbor city, a little after no [View Full Entry]

By JSchneyer
April 15th 2008

"My life is an awkward moment- # 379"

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2 churches in the same pic.. yup

Ok, so funny story. Not so funny at the time, but yeah. So Hamburg weather is always very spontaneous and changes quickly. This pattern decided to change, and it poured last night for like an hour straight while I was in class at Colon. Now, my umbrella broke like a week after I got here, and because the weather changes so fast, I never bothered to get a new one. It never pours here, it lightly rains. So I run out of class and into the mall down the street, into the store that has umbrellas. I spot umbrellas at the [View Full Entry]

By JSchneyer
April 9th 2008

URI, how I miss thee

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Ok, so living in Hamburg isn't bad. The thrill is gone, but I still like it.. and I know when I leave there will be a lot that I wish I still had- this is not one of those days. The University system is so completely different than at home, and I am not getting used to it, at all. I try to keep an open mind, and not compare cultures, like the classes once a week thing is very cool. You may have to sit and listen for 3 hours, but then you're done for the week! Great feeling. However, [View Full Entry]

By Neeko215
April 8th 2008

Hamburg

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The Shaker!
A top ride at the carnival

My trip to Hamburg was a dangerous one... Before I was finally able to obtain the necessary fingerprints for the DHS. However, during this time I was sick... struck down by an illness that left me exhausted. I felt fine during the train ride to hamburg, but once arriving to the youth hostel on the mounth with only stairs I was hit with a sore thorat. During the next couple days, I was unable to speak and thus resorted to writing down everything I needed with a pen and notepad. Despite this, I still went on the walking tour. We saw [View Full Entry]

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