Hamburg

The Hotel is fine Maria loves it and is going to live here when she grows up :-))
We have been befriended by the porter who said we could park outside the hotel then came up to the room saying the police were going to right a ticket for parking where it was? All I wanted was a beer and some food and I had to go down and move the car and then make sure it was safe etc.
We eventually got our hair straightened, put our makeup on re straightened our hair straightened our dress re did our hair and then we were ready to hit Hamburg. We asked about food and were told the hotel did pasta and pizza. We found a pizza place around the corner a big beer and a big juice and a lovely meal just what was needed.
I had Salmon pasta and it was delicious!
The staff were great and even talked to Maria helping her with a bit of real world German on how to ask for the bill. SHe doesn't do that until Year 11 :-))


We walked back to the hotel and we wanted to go via the docks but the waitress said we would need a tram.

We did go passed the Casino and the cinema though

Dash of the Day

All the big stories and breaking news from the dashers.
Well as said befroe we had a nightmare of a journey we got so far and then we went off from our paper Michelin map but we put our faith in the Sat Nav Queen (Dil, short for Dylis) anyway we started to head for Rotterdam and then Utrech and then all over the North I honestly thought Dil was wanting to go home. Anyway eventually we saw a sign for the E30 which we thought should be right but it took an eon to get to where we wanted to be then it happened we saw the sight we had been waiting for Bremen ( 3 men and all that) we came around the corner onto the motorway and then hazzard lights all over the place. We had arrived in Osnabruck and the motorway carpark. The picture shows two lanes of four at a standstill with the temperature at 30 degrees also as the lanes funneled into one.