Day of Water

Had a beautiful day for a cruise up the Elbe River. Saw more cranes and container ships than you could imagine. Remembered our hats but forgot the sunscreen. Who would of thought that you would need sunscreen in Hamburg. We have seen no rain the whole time we have been here, simply amazing, doubt we will be that lucky in Oxford. 

Walked the river front and was followed by a mime, he walked just like me, kirk said, funny guy, I turned around quick and he was gone! Darn could of had some fun with him! Lot of activity up and down the dock.  

We decided to go under the river and crossed the Elbe in a tunnel. Was built in 1919, one way traffic,  Gus and Haley walked the tunnel 3 years ago. Motorcycles, cars... still use it today but have to use an elevator to go up and down. We used it too, it is about 100 meters under ground.

Headed up town to see the Lake Alster, we took the scenic route and tried a new train, instead of being under ground it was above and had a beautiful view of the river side as we went downtown. Amazing enough we got to where we thought we would , good surprise. 

Had lunch on the Beach Pavilion over looking lower Lake Alster where the water jet is. Could not walk past Starbucks without checking email,  that took longer than was suppose to, imagine that, should never let Kirk have my IPad.   Then walked up to Upper Lake Alster and saw the sailing clubs. Lots of boats out sailing, and Opti's too, beautiful day for it.

Walked through the Blume Garden and saw lots of fountains . Made our way back to Landonsbridge and had very sore feet by then.  Never buy new shoes before you leave for a trip! Bad bad bad idea.  

Found lots of steeples today.  It really does help in locating yourself when you get out of the train station.  Invaluable!  I have come to find out that the RAF also used the churches as  GPS, so nothing novel about that.  Saw a war

 bunker in the gardens that was built into the side of a hill and has many underground  caverns, laid out like city streets that they used for taking cover when the RAF found the steeples. It is now used by bats and other creatures of the dark and probably lots of mushrooms. 

Finished the day at the Block House for dinner, had salmon although it is a steak house.  Packing up and leaving tomorrow for Oxford. Maybe our luck will hold and we will have some sunny weather on the narrow boat.