Sunday, September 2, 2012


Tuesday 2 September

After pitching camp we discovered that the site had rats – big ones in my torchlight. One group of German lads had their tent eaten by some (not all, just a small part). However the night passed uneventfully.

Lie-in this morning and then into Hamburg to have a look around. Not an outstanding city – nearly all the war damage has vanished. Lot of banks in modern buildings. Good shops but managed not to spend any money in them. Had lunch in a very attractive park just outside the city centre, overlooking the Elbe. The grounds of the park went, be it steeply, right to the water’s edge, where a small man-made sand beach provided a pleasant lunch place for the people of Hamburg. Returned to the camp site and sat out in the sun all afternoon.

Good meal – wedding anniversary – and then off to the Soho of Hamburg – the Reeper Bahn. This is a wide street just off the city centre, running alongside the Epos centre (tall building with large forecourts for men only, built by the city council to house the prostitutes). The whole place was devoted to strip, sex and perversions of all kinds – great!

[Certainly no photos !!]

Being with my wife I spent the evening having a good piece of pizza pie and a beer (not that I would have wanted to do anything else, mind you!!) The two best looking places were “Palace L’Amour” and “Stage Coach”. I think we probably went a little early but still a good evening – back to tent, bought two beers and a packet of biscuits from the camp shop and consumed them in bed. 

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