My Vacation 2005; Hamburg

Ay, it's been over a week since I returned and I didn't write anything about it yet, sorry. But I've sorta lacked the interest in writing about my announced vacation. So, if you actually follow this blog (more or less closely) you might have noticed that I evaluated either Italy or Spain as my vacational target. Well things didn't work out that way. We tried to go mega-last-minute, read: we took our luggage, went to the airport, and tried to find a flight within the next 1-6 hours. That turned out to be quite impossible as there weren't enough flights left. Those who were were either way too expensive or didn't meet our holiday-schedule. So we, drunk with sadness, drove back home and, on the way back home, decided to go and visited friends in Hamburg instead.
So instead of party in Spain we got party in Hamburg, which was actually quite funny. We visited my cousin christoph and his friend mark, and we had lots of fun exploring the local river 'Elbe' and it's small sibling 'Alster'. The best part was though that we luckily managed to go onto this vacation within some of the really rare sunny days of this year's summer. I think we had about 20 sunny days this summer here in germany (since April), and we managed to have 3 of em while in hamburg. It was a nice vacation. And I'll see to it that I visit Christoph more often as Hamburg rocks.
I enclosed some pictures, you can find more in my flickr.


That's the haven, one can see the luck we had concerning the weather :)



The three of us preparing for a barbecue (from left to right: christoph, daniel, me)


Christoph and me posing for the camera in a local pub. (They had really good live music from a guy from dublin there, awesome stuff) The pub's name was (I think, mind you but I was drunk) 'The Academy'