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Bill, Karen, and Jeff arrived on Saturday.


On the way home from the airport, Jeff impressed us with his well founded knowledge of the German language ;-)

After a quick breakfast, we showed them around in our neighborhood: Schanzenviertel and Karoviertel. We went to the flea market at the Schlachthof and also ran some errands.





Later we stuffed our faces with a typical German bratwurst, currywurst and pommes frites (french fries) in the Schanze.

After a nap we went to the Turkish restaurant, and from there on we continued to the Elba River Beach. Every Saturday before Easter Sunday there are huge bonfires, called Easter fires. Easter fires are an old tradition that are supposed to burn out the winter. There are several Easter fires on the Elba Beach, and each destrict competes with the others who has the biggest one. There are people who guard the wood piles the nights before, so no one burns them ahead of tiem. Around the huge Easter fire there are hundreds of people having their own little bonfire. This year the Hamburg police counted 77000 people attending the fires in Hamburg. It is really a nice atmosphere and much fun.






The whole city smells like smoke now, though ;-9