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We arrived in Hamburg feeling pretty tired after a 6 hour train journey so wanted to find a nice hostel to go and chill out in for a while. We booked a hostel in an area called the Reeperbahn.....
After catching the U-Bahn to the Reeperbahn station we walked up the s´tairs to street level and were greated by similar sights to that of Amsterdam, but a but with a bit more seedyness mixed in haha.
Ah well, let get to the hostel and have a look about. Lukes ears were blocked from his cold so the next mission was to find a doctor to sort them out. After dumping our bags we went in search of a doctor and luckily enough there was one just up the road who agreed to sort them out the next day...Result ;)
Walking around the Reeperbahn we decided we didnt want to go out in that sort of area so after dinner we headed up to the city centre to see what other places there were that we could have a nice drink in. On the way we asked lots of people where are good places to head out and everone kept telling us...REEPERBAHN! We kept trying to find somewhere that was far away from the what seemed like seedy red light mixed in with a bunch of drunk looneys but everywhere we went...reeperbahn, reeperbahn, reeperbahn.
After walking around from a while we found a cool bar called Zwick whcih was kind of a rock bar/pub. There were some nice german beers that we tucked into and after making friends with the bar man he gave us a few free shots of Jagermeister . He told us of a nice irish pub down the road so we thought we would try and find that next.
We started our jouney walking in the direction that we thought was away from the reeperbahn area but after walking for 10 mins Adam stopped and said "im sure this looks familiar"... ahhh crap we were right back in the middle of the reeperbahn, but this time in the dark of night it looked ok for some reason, we wern't drunk at this point so it couldnt have been the alcohol so we decided to check out a few of the bars.
we started of in a cool little bar on the main srtip where again we made friends with the bar staff and got chatting about places to go and found out our next port of call, a bar round the corner on the harbour front. After messing around with the bumper cars in the bar (check the pics) and posing with some power rangers (again, check the pics) we headed down the road towards the harbour bar. We didnt know what we were about to walk into...
Half way down the road we realised we were walking in to what can only be described as a Prossie promanade.. Ever 2 mins we were asked if we wanted to have a "good time"..you know what im talking about! Anyway, we made it through to the end of the road and went in for a few drinks.
We got chatting to the bar manager and found out that he liked to travel also so ended up talking for hours whilst sipping on free rums. When it came to closing we ended up having a lock in and drinks started pouring. Richard, the manager let us take over the club sound system and knock out some good ol English folk music which was great, ive never heard english folk coming out of such a loud sound system haha!
It finally got to about 3am when Richard told us he was gonna take us out to a few back alley/underground bars/pubs. It was now we realised that the Reeperbahn was just a crazy party place, it was all just hidden away! We left the harbour bar and headed back up the prossie promanade only this time Richard took us down a short cut which funnily enough, no surprises at this point was full of red light windows, After Dam we were pretty used to it so...
We went to a fefw of the underground pubs and had a few bevvies but because you were allowed to smoke inside still it was horrible to be in there for longer than 2 minutes so we only ended up stayed out for another hour or so before leaving Richard to go in search of food and then bed! (Luke still had to be up to see the doc early in the morning and it about 5am at this point!)
So.. Hamburg... Reeperbahn, a crazy place, not much to see except night life, Luke got his ears cleaned, Adam danced with power rangers..... what did we rtake from this...Reeperbahn, its a state of mind.
Next stop Copenhagen
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