Always travel somewhere in mid October, and this year it’s going to be Hamburg again. In case you don’t know this already, Hamburg is my favourite Germany city. I love my adopted home, and Berlin has a fantastic bustling energy that makes me feel more creative.
But Hamburg? It’s is a dream. An unfulfilled one, but a dream nonetheless. One day I’ll live there. I just know it. Who cares where you live, right? It’s all the same damned thing.
Well, I’m not going to give into that sort of fatalism. Not me, baby.
There’s a church in Berlin that was bombed during WWII, and they left it as it was as a symbol to remind everyone of the horrors of war. That church is world famous, because it’s on Berlin’s Ku’damm, which was the Flaneur Mile of West Berlin during the Cold War, and you see it on the way to your upscale shops and such.
The one in Hamburg? Well, I suppose if you’re a local you know of it. Not like it’s hidden or anything. It’s right there in the middle of town, but the tourists are flocking to the harbour or the World’s Largest Model Train (Miniatur Wunderland). Who has time to go look at a broken church? Well, I do and I will.
More on this in October.
You’re going to Hamburg for my birthday! How nice of you. I’m so pleased. I like broken churches and vicarious German bon vivanting. That’s an excellent and thoughtful birthday gift!
My wife thinks we’re celebrating our anniversary and her birthday, but let’s keep it our little secret about your birthday, ok?
*zips lip*
There’s really no reason at all it can’t be all three. Multitasking makes the world go ’round, you know. You’re just managing time wisely.
Dear Lucysfootball… Please use your birthday connections to obtain more broken church pictures. Thank you.
I will do my best. I’m not sure how far my birthday connections stretch. @lahikmajoe, how far do my birthday connections stretch?
I look forward to more info!!!
The best place to communicate things to my mother is through my blog. I should come here to work out my issues instead of the expensive therapy I’ve been wasting my money on.
What could be more hauntingly beautiful than a broken church? Unless it is a small clapboard church in the rural midwestern emptiness, in which case it is merely haunting, or haunted. Very nice photo!
The broken church is fascinating. Will you take lots of pictures of it when you go?