Sunday 7th September 2003 - Hamburg
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![All along the watchtower](sept-038_small.jpg) |
First sight of
Hamburg - the tower at the St Pauli Landing |
![I can see our room from here!](sept-039_small.jpg) |
Our hotel, as
seen from the S-Bahn station |
![An admiral at the rear](sept-043_small.jpg) |
Helen and a salty
sea dog |
![Helen in Hamburg](sept-044_small.jpg) |
Helen at the
entrance to Grosse Freiheit, the street the Beatles "grew up"
in (just off the Reeperbahn) |
Monday 8th September 2003 - Hamburg
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![The Elbe River](sept-045_small.jpg) |
A big boat, as
seen from our hotel window |
![An old brewing tun](sept-047_small.jpg) |
Helen next to a
mash tun (brewing thing) |
![Ere a coo](sept-050_small.jpg) |
Coos, loads of
coos |
![The Altstadt](sept-051_small.jpg) |
Hamburg's
historic heart |
![Books](sept-055_small.jpg) |
The
library. No, really. |
![Endo klinik, anyone?](sept-058_small.jpg) |
The helpful sign
at the end of the Reeprbahn - docks to the left, "Endo Klinik"
to the right |
![The writing's on the wall](sept-059_small.jpg) |
Now that's what I
call graffiti |
![Wouldn't want to be around when they hatch!](sept-061_small.jpg) |
Alien eggs on the
dockside |
![You dropped one!](sept-066_small.jpg) |
Big cranes for a
big boat |
![Our own boat](sept-067_small.jpg) |
The inside of our
sightseeing vessel |
![with its own patio](sept-068_small.jpg) |
The deck |
![Helen](sept-069_small.jpg) |
Helen on board |
![The daddies of the hood](sept-074_small.jpg) |
Blohm & Voss
own just about the whole shooting match |
![Some boats](sept-077_small.jpg) |
The white ship is
a famous one, the grey one belongs to the Brazilian navy. Yes, we
were surprised too |
![A big yellow tent](sept-078_small.jpg) |
The Lion Kin
theatre |
![and some igloos](sept-080_small.jpg) |
Looks Big
Brother-ish to me! |
![The wide open space at Millerntor](sept-082_small.jpg) |
The large open
expanse that is the Millerntor |
![St Pauli's ground](sept-083_small.jpg) |
St Pauli's ground
(the Millerntor Stadion) in the background |
![She Was There](sept-086_small.jpg) |
Helen? With
a Stadium plan? Surely not? |
![Celtic in the wheelie bin?](sept-087_small.jpg) |
Graphic evidence
of the fans friendship between St Pauli and Celtic |
![Lots and lots and](sept-089_small.jpg) |
The pennants
hanging in the Millentor clubhouse |
![lots of wee pennants](sept-090_small.jpg) |
And again,
looking the other way |
![Helen with the badge](sept-091_small.jpg) |
Helen, on the way
out of the clubhouse |
![Dad's Army](sept-093_small.jpg) |
The wall of fame. |
![St Pauli's ground](sept-094_small.jpg) |
Inside the ground
itself |
![St Pauli's ground](sept-095_small.jpg) |
The far corner |
![St Pauli's ground](sept-096_small.jpg) |
Behind the goal |
![St Pauli's ground](sept-098_small.jpg) |
Sums up the
club's philosophy (or not, if you talk to Altona 93 fans!) |
![Paul thinks he's found a big polo mint](sept-099_small.jpg) |
Paul outside the
front door |
![Like a will o' the wisp](sept-101_small.jpg) |
German toilet
humour |
![Get your police here!](sept-103_small.jpg) |
The Polizei get
into the neon swing of things on the Reeperbahn |
![Do you mind, I'm trying to get some bloody sleep!](sept-104_small.jpg) |
The Brazilian
Navy set sail, brass band in full swing. It's okay lads -
7am? I was up already! |