A lie in was well needed, so getting up at 1145 wasn't a great problem for us. We immediately headed out and caught a bus to the U/S-Bahn station at Ohlsdorf to get to Hamburg hbf. We'd heard from some other Brits that certain parts of the train network wouldn't be running today, but weren't sure which areas would be affected. Sure enough, we were turfed off the train at Barmbek station. After a bit of asking around, we found we could continue our journey on the U2 line. That out of the way, we opted for lunch at a little bar/cafe thing right next to the station, before taking one of the touristy-sight seeing buses around the city. This took a good 90 minutes and showed us a fair bit of the place. Unfortunately, by the time we'd finished it, most places were closing up. It's worth noting that Hamburg is very much like the UK in that after about 1630 on a Sunday, there's very little to do in the way of going out. After the bus journey had shown us where things were, we took a walk around the Elbe and some of the more upmarket shops in Hamburg, before catching a train from Jungfernstieg back to the hotel. We headed back out again at about 7 with the intention of catching a cruise on the Elbe, but - as mentioned above, there's very little that actually happens on a Sunday night in Hamburg. Everywhere is deathly quiet. No boats were running a service at all. We'd originally intended to get something to eat on said boat, so since this wasn't happening, we took to looking around for somewhere to eat. Now, one of the problems we've found and as documented in previous blog entries - there's only so much eating out you can do. The Germans seem to love their Italian food. Walking down one road, we found 4 pizzerias within 150 yards. It's that bad. So happening upon a restaurant which wasn't purely advertising Italian food was something of a boon to us. The Hamburger Fischerstussen looked good from the outside. A vegetarian (me) being in a fish restaurant is quiet a thing, but they were able to cater for me. Sioned took the prawns and was blown away by them. Apparently they're the best she's ever tasted. A glowing recommendation. If ever you're in the area, give the place a look in. Portions are absolutely massive, too. After the meal, we went over to the Reeperbahn, as I suggested we would in the previous blog entry. Even this was incredibly quiet and gave the feeling that it was far less secure than the previous night had lead us to believe. On the tourist bus thing earlier, we'd noticed a rather large fun-fair at one end of the Reeperbahn which we hadn't spotted on our visit last night (we'd not walked that far), so we set a course for that. What a plae. It'd mind blowing, the size of it. We spent a good couple of hours there. Some of the rides would give the British H&S people a heart attack. I found a brilliant go-kart ride. 5.5hp petrol powered go karts on a track that goes up and over. Lots of mad overtaking, lots of silly crashes. Well worth the 3 Euro it cost. Sioned took a go on a pirate ship which left her feeling rather ill, whilst I went on a pretty hefty big wheel which gave some nice views across the city. We arrived back at the hotel at midnight. Tomorrow we're off to Berlin - our hotel is on the Potsdamer Platz, so on the divide between the former east and west Germany.