Thanks for Nothing Frau Marks

19th March From Hamburg From Lisbon
My GCSE German was a complete waste of time. On my first proper night in Germany the only word on the menu that I understand is "Hamburger". Which turns out to be a fillet of chicken in a mushroom butter gravy. But the chicken lived in Hamburg oringinally, if I understand correctly. If Iºd known at the time how little of this language Iºd retain then I wouldnºt have worked so dilligently in German lessons all those years ago. But thinking about it, I didnºt work that hard. Itºs all starting to make sense now.
I just bought a bottle of ice cold beer from a vending machine in my hostel for ONE EURO. I still canºt quite believe it. Isnºt that about the same about as a Coke from a London vending machine? I wasnºt expecting to find this level of savings whilst in Western Europe. Althuogh itºs not quite Kathyºs 7p for 4 avocados in Malawi.
Having only spent 24 hours in Hamburg I donºt feel qualified to go into much more depth, So Iºll end it here by summarising the whole experience with some hyphenated words: cheap-beer-curt-people-flimsy-maps-misleading-menus.