Much to my surprise, I found a decent place to eat in a beer hall/restaurant called Block Brau that's located in the low brick building to the right of this photo. This building is the St Pauli Landungsbrucken "landing bridges". Apparently the building was designed to evoke the ancient lighthouse in Alexandria, Egypt. The most incongruous retrofit to this historical building is the radar blade set into the turret left of the green copper roof in the center of the photo. It rotates like those crazy propeller party hats you can buy in a joke shop. To the left of the Landungsbrucken building is the Roman Pantheon building that's the top half of the 1911 St Pauli Elbtunnel.
The crazy leaning skyscraper is "the dancing tower". The orange roofed building with the Dutch style red brick facade in the center of the photo is a hospital I think.
This shot was taken today at 10am when I crossed under the Elbe using the tunnel.
For dinner at Block Brau I had bacon flavored potato soup, a salad heavy on radishes and red onions in a creamy dressing and a beer. For entertainment I was serenaded by a guy wearing a fisherman's cap who was playing soppy tunes on his accordion.
After paying the bill "rectnung" I followed a group of beer bottle dumping skinheads up the several flights of stairs to my hostel.
I can hear them beating a drum and drunkenly singing what is possibly a racist song in the small park below the hostel's balcony. To get into my hostel I use a magnetic key card and a fair amount of common sense.
This is Hamburg, perhaps the next undiscovered place on the tourist trail, when we Americans have tired of Neuschwanstein.
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