Well, I left Berlin. It was a great city, though I still have the feeling I missed so much that it had to offer. Today, I went to Hamburg. So far, from the bit I have experienced, Hamburg is a bit like the New Jersey of Germany. Jersey is the dumpster of America; dirty, gross, and overpopulated with drug-ridden rabid bums (that eye you as you walk buy and do the "I'm watching you" sign). Well, the same can be said for Hamburg, except, unlike Jersey, Hamburg has Europe's largest Red Light District.
What is extremely cool about Hamburg, though, is this is the place that nurtured one of my favorite bands from inception -- The Beatles. They played each and every night in strip clubs and brothels all around the Reeperbahn (Red Light District), perfecting their craft (and doing a damn good job of it too). There was only one Beatles museum, and it was also a "Kino, Strip Club, Museum!"
Also like New Jersey, is that in Hamburg, there are no lack of mullets. If you know one thing about me, its that I HATE anything and everything about the 1980's -- especially mullets. They make me violently ill. But, today, I saw something unbelievable. While taking cover beneath some trees during a downpour, I saw a German Mullet walking his ferret. But, if that wasn't strange enough, he was having to restrain his ferret from attacking a bunch (flock?) of ducks on the pond's edge. Probably the coolest thing I'll see in Hamburg.
What a shithole this is. But, I am traveling and seeing it so there are definitely worse things out there. Sorry I don't have pictures, but they wouldn't have been worth it anyway. The only funny/interesting sight today was for a strip club called "Funky Pussy." Why on earth they thought this was a good idea, I don't know. Just walking through the Reeperbahn made me feel like getting tested for aids, which I am going to go do right now...
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