Hamburg

Well, this blog is falling behind. But probably better that I am not inside online all day everyday. Anyways, Hamburg was pretty great as well. I saw some nice parks and a cool church memorial that was an old neo-gothic cathedral that had been bombed out that they left as a war memorial (there is another bombed out church here in Berlin that i think i will go to tomorrow) that was pretty cool. It seemed particularly effective as well; there is something especially haunting about tall arched windows with gray bricks filling them instead of stained glass.
Maybe the best part of Hamburg was a new development near the port area called HaffenCity. Its really, REALLY cool. Hard to describe in the best way possible. Just google image search it, or wait to see my pictures :)
My host also took me out to a couple of her favorite pubs, one of which was just a HUGE open room with like 20 couches everywhere, and the other was called something like the Gold Fish Bowl....errr, something like that, and they had this really cool touchscreen pool! That is, it had like 1 inch of water and underneath a touchscreen where you could attract the fish pictured there by putting your finger in the water and touching the screen! It was pretty awesome.
Now, I should go out and further explore the wonderful hauptstadt Berlin!
Bis Später!