Saturday, October 11, 2014

Hamburg and Hamburgers….. in the Red Light District…



Its true- People who LIVE in Hamburg ARE called HAMBURGERS!!!  A forewarning to anyone going to Europe about the color RED…. Watch out for it as if your life depended on it!   In one photo, note the RED colored sidewalk Ilea is walking ALONGSIDE; (NO, she is NOT near the RED LIGHT district, BUT she is near the VERY dangerous RED SIDEWALK for BIKERS.)  Seriously, people bike like they are in the Tour de France at crazy speeds on these RED sidewalks located immediately next to pedestrians, throughout Germany, and you had better well look three times both ways before stepping into that zone- or face painful if not deadly consequences! Yes- we DID have some very close calls.... Also pictured in the city of Hamburg are- the skyline as viewed from a harbor cruise showing the famous Fishmarket Building (which we visited at 6 am) and another shows a view of their Warehouse District… then there is the priceless billboard showing how Europeans think of American eating; Went to their amazing MINATURE WORLD… an EXCEPTIONAL display of ANYTHING you can think of , IN MINATURE, set up mainly in village scenes; look carefully in one shown of the COUPLE IN THE FIELD OF SUNFLOWERS, and try to determine what they seem to be doing there; in Hamburg’s world famous RDL (Red Light District) , I took a night photo of “THE WALL” (No, not Berlin Wall….) Behind which, ONLY MEN older than 18 are permitted…. (so Ilea stayed back, and just ‘insisted’ I be brave and go without her for a look)…. In case you never heard of it, on this Herbert Street- woman dressed in bikinis sit in windows and attempt to, shall we say, draw your attention to themselves in hopes that you might want to ‘buy something….’ This is LEGAL in Germany (and some other countries as well) FYI- did NOT buy anything….; and the last pic shows some of the very odd things you can buy in some of the shops in the red light district- such as a CAGE, and maybe some sort of GAS MASK you might want to attach to your genitalia (WHAT?????!!!!! Also available were…. Well I just can not even describe here…..) 

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