In case I forgot to mention, we’re all reasonably exhausted after the go-go-go of the last ten days. Today’s activities did nothing to alleviate this! We started with a cruise on The Alster, one of Hamburgs two rivers.
Hamburg is proud of this river and treat it well. Home to birds and with a beautiful shoreline, the two-hour cruise gave us a good look at the two lakes formed by the river as well as the many canals.
Were we here longer, and were the weather cooler, it would be fun to rent a boat and explore the canals myself 🙂
Afterwards we split up again, with Dad going to see the catholic cathedral, Jim off to the botanic gardens and the three youngsters (average age 44!) off to The Reeperbaum, a red-light district that is a major tourist attraction.
We boggled at the sights before eventually ending up at our destination: Germany’s oldest waxworks!
I’d never ever been to a waxworks. It was surreal and a lot of fun!
While many of the models were German historical or celebrity figures, there were still many world-famous ‘people’ on the four floors that we knew.
That’s apparently life-sized, a famous cross-dresser that runs (?) many clubs on The Reeperbaum. It’s rare someone dwarfs Bernard 🙂
Afterwards… we ended up back at the fair!
He’s emerging from ‘Geister’, a surprisingly scary ghost-train ride. The glasses have diffracting lenses to give the strobes a rainbow effect. It was fun 🙂
That’s taken in a mirror maze. Can you tell the real from the reflection?
It got hot when we were at the fair, and we all started dropping like old flowers. With a very early train tomorrow, it’s an early night tonight!