{"id":11906,"date":"2005-08-03T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-03T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/?p=11906"},"modified":"2023-03-25T00:04:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T05:04:11","slug":"a-few-days-in-hamburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/blog\/2005\/08\/03\/a-few-days-in-hamburg\/","title":{"rendered":"A few days in Hamburg&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hamburg was an interesting contrast to Berlin. It&#8217;s a port town, and much rougher around the edges than Berlin. I had a great time with Maike and her friends, though I didn&#8217;t get to hang out with Maike too much due to the fact that she had to work alot during a major bike race that was going on at the time. But good times nonetheless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theandiamo.com\/images\/hamburg\/100_9636.jpg\" alt=\"Park by the main canal lock\"\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theandiamo.com\/images\/hamburg\/100_9637.jpg\" alt=\"The Rathaus\" title=\"The Rathaus, Hamburg's city hall. \"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theandiamo.com\/images\/hamburg\/100_9638.jpg\" alt=\"The 'Rickmer Rickmers', a 19th century freighter ship, that's now a nautical museum. \" title=\"The 'Rickmer Rickmers', a 19th century freighter ship, that's now a nautical museum. \"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theandiamo.com\/images\/hamburg\/100_9639.jpg\" alt=\"Statue of Otto Von Bismarck, and some guys jamming out on it. \" title=\"This is over by the Landsgbruchen, by the harborfront, and that's a statue of Otto Von Bismarck, which has been defaced by anarchists, and there's some street performers are jamming out some jazz at its foot. Cool, huh?\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theandiamo.com\/images\/hamburg\/100_9639.jpg\" alt=\"A shot of the deck of the 'Rickmer Rickmers', this ship was beautifully restored after being mothballed by the Portuguese government for more than 50 years. \" title=\"A shot of the deck of the 'Rickmer Rickmers', this ship was beautifully restored after being mothballed by the Portuguese government for more than 50 years.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theandiamo.com\/images\/hamburg\/100_9643.jpg\" alt=\"Another deck shot of the Rickmer Rickmers\" title=\"More of the 'Rickmer Rickmers'\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theandiamo.com\/images\/hamburg\/100_9644.jpg\" alt=\"The enormous bowsprit of the 'Rickmer Rickmers'\" title=\"The enormous bowsprit of the 'Rickmer Rickmers', it's rigged to handle up to 5 headsails. \"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theandiamo.com\/images\/hamburg\/100_9645.jpg\" alt=\"A shot of Hamburg's very busy commercial port. Well, it wasn't this busy at this particular time, ok... \" title=\"A shot of Hamburg's very busy commercial port. Well, it wasn't this busy at this particular time, ok... \"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theandiamo.com\/images\/hamburg\/100_9646.jpg\" alt=\"It's my Hamburg friend, Maike, hard at work at the bicycle race.\" title=\"It's my Hamburg friend, Maike, hard at work at the bicycle race. Despite her busy schedule, Maike managed to get out a couple of nights, and to meet up for lunch and stuff. So thanks for hanging out with me Maike!\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theandiamo.com\/images\/hamburg\/100_9648.jpg\" alt=\"A shot along the Aussenalster, pretty much a central lake, which is smack in the middle of the city.\" title=\"A shot along the Aussenalster, pretty much a central lake, which is smack in the middle of the city.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theandiamo.com\/images\/hamburg\/100_9650.jpg\" alt=\"Mirka and Asja\" title=\"This is Mirka and Asja, two friends of Maike's that I met when we all went to a local pub that had a special on Caipirinhas.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theandiamo.com\/images\/hamburg\/100_9652.jpg\" alt=\"From right to left, Miezi, Mirka, a friend of Mirka's whose name I didn't get, and me.\" title=\"From right to left, Miezi, Mirka, Asja, and me.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theandiamo.com\/images\/hamburg\/100_9658.jpg\" alt=\"Me rubbing the buddha belly at the China Club\" title=\"Me rubbing the buddha belly at the China Club\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamburg was an interesting contrast to Berlin. It&#8217;s a port town, and much rougher around the edges than Berlin. I had a great time with Maike and her friends, though I didn&#8217;t get to hang out with Maike too much due to the fact that she had to work alot during a major bike race [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11907,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11906\/revisions\/11907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}