HAMBURG IS NOT THE HOME OF THE HAMBURGER. Just thought I should let you know, incase you were excited and expected some kind of recollection of all the hamburgers I ate whilst I was there. If you want something like that, check out the sausage fest 09 album. We had arranged our first official couchsurfing expedition in Hamburg. Nicolai, a lovely man of 38 agreed last minute to put us up for 3 nights while we explored Hamburg. He came and met us at the station an...

For our first experience of Germany we went to crash with the Nagel family- also known as Lizzys exchange family. They came and met us at the train station and gave us big hugs and we felt very welcome. They were a great bunch of really warm, caring, smiley people. We were impressed. They gave us cakes and excellent coffee. We could do our washing (I wont tell you how long it had been since we had last done some). We had a room to ourselves and internet access. W...