Tea brewed,shorts & t-shirt with smokes,phone and hotel entrance card in my pocket( triple tapped to make sure I have it.Don’t want to be locked out the place at 6-30am) went to pop outside for a smoke and as soon as I opened the door I knew something was up.The noisy cranky little lift was sitting there with the doors open but crucially the lift floor level was not level with the 4th floor floor level…ah shit.No amount of button pressing was moving that thing,You could be Tommy the Pinball Wizard and it’s not moving..,
But I was committed now so down the stairs I go.To be fair downstairs is easy,even Steven Hawking would find it a piece of piss.But back up was much harder.The four floors are probably akin to six in these blocks…made it though in probably half the time it would have taken a few months back.Luckily it was fixed by the time I came back from my day/night out…
Last night was a bit special for me as my favourite bar in Hamburg is still open.It’s a pokey little dive called St Pauli Eck and It’s in one of the streets off Reeperbahn.I was worried a lot of these tiny little bars that I love both here and in Berlin would fall foul of Covid and be killed off but none have unlike in the UK.Wonder why that is? I have my own ideas why but answers on a postcard please…walked in,about six people there,got my bottle of Astra at €2-30 a bottle and went to the bog…landlady comes storming in as I was in the ladies with cheered the locals up.Ah well,I stayed for a good few hours and got asked a few times where I was from.A lovely Dutch woman got me a shot sent over etc All in all very pleasing evening…
Off to Lüneburg today to catch up with the West Midlands pin up girl Rikky,it’s her hometown and is about half hour south of Hamburg.Luckily it’s also part of the Hamburg transport ticket too…Should be fun.I may also have to indulge in some sock buying from Primark as my laundry is due to be done but only really desperate for the socks.The rest can wait…I’m sure Rikky will tell me if I smell bad in that honest way German’s have…
Then tomorrow I have an early train to Copenhagen at the start of a short Scandi tour which covers Denmark,Norway,Sweden and back to Denmark…all of them have their own currency so that’s gonna be fun.Yes I can just use my card and for most of the time I will but I still like cash in my hand too.Not in a Farage conspiracy the lizards are taking over way.I just like using cash…
Probably best if I don’t mention to the Danes we gave them a bloody nose in Wolverhampton in 910(ish) The dormant Viking might come out and give me a bloody nose back…it does give me a chance to learn three crucial things in three languages though. Those being “Please” “ Thank You” and “Fucking how much?”
Until tomorrow.Ciao..,
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