Sunday:
– Fischmarkt – We started off the day bright and early at the Fischmarkt, which is only open from 7 to 9:30 in the winter. Despite its name, you can buy just about anything here – fresh fruit and vegetables, pasta and pasta sauce, flowers, fresh fish, crepes (with candy bars in the middle), Hamburg souvenirs (purchased a magnet to add to our collection), coffee, etc. At the far end of the market is the Auktionshalle (auction hall) where there was a live band playing rock’n roll music. Yep at 8 in the morning there is a rock band and people are drinking gluvine (wine mulled with spices and served warm). We really wanted to get one of the “Hamburg” baskets with fruit in it, but since we weren’t going to be going home until Wednesday, we were afraid everything would go bad before we had a chance to eat it all. Next time!
– Ahrensburg Schloss- We drove to Ahrensburg to visit an estate there built around 1600. It had some pretty cool details, I especially loved the floor mosaic in the ball room.. Morgan snuck and took a picture for me!
– Stade- We had a great time walking around town; it still has lots of the old half-timbered buildings. The area around the Alter Hafen (old port) was especially nice, that is where the Bügermeister-Hintze-Haus (aka the mayors home) is. While in town we ate dinner at a little restaurant called Messerchmiede and it was delicious!
