The plan was to take it pretty easy today, just catch up on some Hamburg things. The sun was out, promising better pictures of the harbor, so we started with a harbor tour (hafen rundfahrt). Feeling frisky, we walked to the harbor. Here are pictures from that.
Tour dock sandwiched under the Rickmer Rickmers, a restored windjammer.
Mind your hat in the breeze.
Looking up at the Rickmers' figurehead.
Inner harbor.
This paddle-wheel steamer...
...is actually visible, under way, in the center of this harbor overview from St. Nikolas's tower two days ago.
Oh, all right, it's not that remarkable.
Weird building.
The real story of the harbor is cranes.
Construction cranes.
Cranes framing St. Michael's.
Miscellaneous cranes.
Matched sets of cranes.
And containers.
Lots of containers.
Cosco Yantian, largest container ship that can fit through the Panama Canal, carries 9,640 containers.
OK, so back on land, we decided to walk through Planten un Blumen to the botanic garden. This was a very peaceful park, about the size of Golden Gate Park, in the center of this busy city. Halfway along we found a meadow full of Adirondack chairs occupied by people enjoying the sunny afternoon.
Further on, below the botanic garden, more Adirondack chairs. Very comfy.
That was pretty much it for the day, a very enjoyable 5 hours although not a lot to describe. It was supposed to be a sort of "take it easy" day, yet somehow we had managed to walk about 5 miles. Here's our approximate route.
From A to B was to drop off our laundry—last laundry of the trip!—while E to F to D was searching high and low for something to eat, where the park maps showed there should be a WC and a cafe, there wasn't. Hungry and grouchy and needing to pee, we were not happy tourists for a while. But we got finally got sorted out and ate a late lunch sitting in Adirondack chairs.
We closed the loop with the U-bahn. Later we went out for a late supper. From an "Earl" walk we knew of a street with several good restaurants so we went there by U-bahn and picked one more or less at random. It was the Kartoffle Keller (The Potato Cellar) and all the menu items were based on or used kartofflen. The wait staff all wore overshirts or overskirts made of potato sacks.
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