Wednesday, 26. August 2009, 20:21:12
Hamburg, Cooking, Sandwiches
Yesterday evening was super sandwich night. My favourite German prepared some sandwich toppings: eggplant, raddish, tofu, cucumber, gherkin etc. I cut some bread, sliced tomato and found a big dead squashed slug on some lettuce.....
The key to a super sandwich is to use some pastes/sauces Some ideas are: curry paste, pesto, peanut butter, sweet chili sauce, curry ketchup. A super sandwich should be too big to fit inside of your mouth. It should be extremely difficult to eat
The juice from the tomato should soak into the bread and the sauce should drip onto the plate. None of this Subway rubbish!
Flowers 
Some super sandwich ingredients
When you make a hot beverage at home in Germany, you are required to put post-its onto the cup so that you are not liable if someone burns themselfI was flipping through a supermarket catalogue the other day and came across this.
Fried, frozen chicken in a flast square shape, so that you can put it into the toaster.
Today's random photo from the past is of Schwaebisch Hall's marketplace. I saw a book about the most beautiful marketplaces in the world. Schwaebisch Hall was in the book.
Friday, 14. August 2009, 06:32:57
Hamburg, Baked, Bad service, Potato
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Yesterday I went to the Schanzeviertel for baked potato. The Schanzeviertel is a little alternative (you may remember I went to an illegal garage sale/protest/riot there), therefore whoever thought it was a good idea to open a McDonalds there clearly didn't do their research. Outside the McDonalds, you will find protestors, dressed in chicken and cow suits and educating those who purchase McDonalds about ...well I'm not sure what: animal cruelty, the McHappy Meal toys...whatever.
Anyway, back to potatoes.....
Kumpir is located across from McDonalds at Schulterblatt 21 (Germans write the number after the street). I must say that the service isn't the best. I asked for my poato without cheese and the man who made it said 'Too Late!' Errr excuse me, but I am PAYING for this food and cheese makes me feel sick (and it makes me fat)...surely you could just give the potato with cheese to someone else! But noooo that's all too hard. And, since I had a bad experience at your outlet, I will now tell the INTERNET about it. So, wouldn't it just have been easier not to put cheese on my poatato? Why do people open businesses when they know nothing about consumer behaviour/marketing? I also asked for my potato without sauce and the guy actually managed to NOT put sauce on my potato. Good job buddy!
There are not many seats/tables, so you may need to sit on a garden bed wood thing on the street. That's ok but after an hour it kind of hurts to sit there. Baked potatoes cost 3.40 or if you want a fancier potato, 3.90 which is pretty good.
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Oops, I forgot 'Random photo from the PAST'
Tuesday, 11. August 2009, 18:42:26
Map, Photo, Random, Botanical Garden
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Sunday, 2. August 2009, 19:54:17
Room, Tour, Apartment, Photos
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I have been in Germany's most beautiful city for a month now. The time goes so quickly when you are Excel-ing all day.
What do I do in my internship? (I don't think I explained this before)
I work for a company which organises/promotes music concerts.
I enter things into Excel, enter data into our accounting program, pay creditors (it is very interesting to see how much stuff costs!), write bills, translate things from German into English and things from English to German, occasionally ring up English companies, find mistakes in bills we have to pay and ring up the companies to tell them to re-calculate stuff and ect.
The best part is.....I do all of this in GERMAN! My German has improved soooo much and I am really proud of myself. As I am Australian, I have the right to be even more proud of myself because not many Australians can speak 2 languages. Most struggle with English. I sill make mistakes but that's how you learn
It amazes me how the brain learns a new language. I haven't learnt German from a book since high school. Sometimes I will use a word in a sentence and then realise that it is the first time that I have used the word...then I will ask if I used the word correctly and most of the time everything is correct. Most of the time I don't even notice that I am speaking German. I don't have to think about what I am going to say so much anymore, which makes me really happy! However, if some Germans start talking about the government...I wont be saying much!
A month has gone by, that means I have left the couch I was sleeping on and I am now living in another apartment. I am doing a bit of room-sitting for my Favourite German
It's a very nice apartment.
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Sunday, 26. July 2009, 16:51:49
Hamburg, Yum, Culture, Food
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Germans like to brunch. I like to brunch too
What is a brunch?Brunch is somewhere betwen breakfast and lunch. It can last for 5 hours!
Many cafes in Germany offer brunch on Sunday. Brunch often begins at 9am and finishes at 2pm. Brunch in a cafe is an all you can eat event and prices vary from cafe to cafe.
Many Germans also host their own brunch at home. Each gust brings a plate of food to share. In Australia, if you say 'please bring a plate to share', most people will arrive with a PACKET of chips, a PACKET of biscuits and other PROCESSED RUBBISH. Here however, young people can usually cook and apprecite food!
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Sunday, 26. July 2009, 16:22:14
Hamburg, Cake, Photos, Weather
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Hamburg is a great city for cycling! The city is mostly flat, so hills are no problem. There are also red bike lanes on most footpaths and/or bike lanes on the road.
Why bike riding is better than the train:
1. It is cheaper
2. Exercise
3. Sunshine
4. You get to see things that you don't see when on the train
Why train is better than bike riding:
1. It rains a lot in Hamburg
2. It could be safer
3. You normally have more of an idea of where you are going
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Sunday, 19. July 2009, 17:26:59
British Shopping, Hamburg, Cake, British
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Yesterday Miss A, from Bremen, who I met in Adelaide visited me here in Hamburg. We ate lunch at my place and then went to
Sweet Dreams. I had heard a lot about this cake shop and wanted to check it out for myself.
Sweet Dreams is not a cafe and not a bakery. They just make cakes. You walk in and there is a counter/display cabinet infront of you, filled with cakes. Lemon pie, brownie pie, chocolate fudge cake, pear cake, chocolate raspberry cake..... It smells so good there! The people working there are really friendly and speak perfect English, as they are from England.
A slice of chocolate pear cake will cost you 2.60 Euro. As there are no chairs and tables inside of the shop, you can either take your cake home, or you can enjoy your cake while sitting on the benches in the street. The shop is opened three days a week and don't get there 5 minutes before they close, because there wont be much cake left!
Sweet Dreams: Lehmweg 41 Hamburg.
Friday 9am-6pm, Saturday 9am-4pm, Sunday 1pm-4pm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Not far away from Sweet Dreams, you will find
British Shopping. Miss A and I went into the shop and stopped at each shelf. It was a bit like this....
*see a Flake bar* Ahhhh FLAKE!!!
*sport PEARS soap on a shelf* AHHHH Pears soap!!!
*see custard mix in the corner* CUSTARD!!! (Custard in Germany is called Vanilla Pudding and I don't think they eat it warm)
The prices are more expensive than at home, but if you are desperate for Cadbury, powdered custard mix, English soap, English tea cups, pies, sliced white bread, salt and vinegar chips or baked beans you can find it here.
British Shopping: Hegestrasse 30, Hamburg
Monday – Friday 10am-7pm. Saturday 10am-4pm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bikes in Germany....
Bier Bike. I'm not sure if you can see it, but there is a bar in the middle, complete with bar chick.
When your bedroom isn't big enough for your stuff, store it on your bike.
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