Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Tuesday 7/10 - Saying Goodbye.


Tuesday would be our final day in Germany. Our flight was scheduled to leave Hamburg at 6:50 on Wednesday morning. Jim & I had deemed it prudent to spend the night before in Hamburg, so Tuesday would be our last in Schleswig. We checked out of Hotel Hahn, and went over to Callsen's for a visit. We had lunch in the Wikinger Turm (literally, Viking Tower - at the left of the picture), said our goodbyes, and traded pictures before Johann & Paul took Jim & I to our hotel in Hamburg.
We got to the Mein Hotel in Hamburg in the early evening. Mein Hotel (website here: http://www.meinhotelinhamburg.de/ ) is clean and comfortable, albeit with no frills - not even a damned alarm clock. The price was a very reasonable 65 Euros, including breakfast. There is a reason for such a low rate: the hotel is situated directly in the #$%!! flight path for the Hamburg airport. The planes flew very low and very loud over our hotel every 3-5 minutes. Needless to say, we didn't get a lot of sleep. Not that we needed or wanted much: we had to be at the airport at 4:50 am to check in for our 6:50 flight.

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