Day2 - a sunny day around Hambourg

After a long sleepless night, for Isa, we finally arrive to Hamburg – for Miji: all of a sudden we’re there.

An unexpected sunny day is ahead of us. We planned to meet our friend Christof, who is already waiting at the arrival platform. We first follow him to his beautifully renewed house where we are heartily welcomed with warm solar-powered shower and breakfast prepared by Tanja and Jens (Thank you!).

After renewing ourselves, we have the pleasure to follow Christof and Tanja for motorcycle sightseeing tour in the surroundings. The weather is excellent and at 31.5°C we heat up like oven-buns in our bikers’ clothes.

First stop: the impressive boat-lift of the “Seitenkanal” of the Elbe River (Schiffshebewerk). The construction is huge, but the most impressive thing is to see the lift at work!  Mmm… how to explain it to you… It’s like you using a spoon for taking out a floating cornflake from a cup of milk into another... now replace cornflake with huge boat…

We then quickly stop at Lauenburg to rehydrate and swiftly continue to Lübeck.
Lübeck is a cute baroque gothic city definitely worth a day-trip.  Lubeck is not all about bricks – but there are a lot of them (with Isa’s words: it’s a fairy-tale-town - must have been Rapunzel’s home). There are many things to see, and we unfortunately miss a couple of them (but it’s already set in our minds: we need to visit it again).

In Lübeck, Isa also took the time to do some shopping. Check out the bill. Can you guess what store she was in?

The evening arrives, we sit for a last drink at the shores of the Trave, … and it is already time to say good-bye to our lovely, caring hosts (Thank you so much both for showing us around!).

We then head to Travemünde where we wait roughly until midnight to board on our delayed ferry to Helsinki.