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What a day. The hotel we're staying in - an Ibis - was incredibly noisy last night, so sleep was quite broken. After breakfast, we went to Tierpark Hagenbeck, which is a large zoo in a suburb of Hamburg. It's an absolutely huge place, where we spent a good 4 hours walking round looking at all of the animals, ranging from elephants to meerkats to giraffes. Over 60 different animals. Many of them were roaming freely around the park, so it wasn't unexpected to trip over a turkey. The camels were being walked around the park as well whilst we were there. If you're in Hamburg, it's well worth a visit. Sioned really enjoyed the zoo and kept running off looking at the different animals.
On the way back from the zoo, we noticed that it was exactly a week since we'd been married.
We headed back via a supermarket where we stocked up on crap (chocolate, crisps, drinks, and cheese to go with some bread that we'd, er, borrowed at breakfast).
The evening saw us jumping on the U-Bahn to the Reeperbahn. An electric place which really comes to life at night - a very busy place. We're probably going to go back there tomorrow night as well. I'd decided not to take the D100 as we were slightly iffy about how safe the area would be, but it looks like it should be fine.
The Reeperbahn is described in many reviews as the seedy side of Hamburg - which is probably a good description of it. Sex shops, lap dancing clubs and so on - it's a rather odd place to look around but there's so many different people there, it's worth a visit.
Tomorrow we're going to go into the centre of Hamburg and do the sight-seeing things. The evening will see a cruise on the Elbe, before a possible revisit to the Reeperbahn.