Arriving in Hamburg on Monday 22nd Nov 2010, Dave & Kate certainly didn't expect the Winter Wonderland scenes they were confronted by. The Christmas markets were all up and running and after checking into their hotel near the train station, they went out for some food and passed a busker singing Bob Marley's "Roots Rock Reggae" song.
They weren't going to have much trouble getting meals here. How did two people who don't even bother with Christmas end up in a Winter Wonderland, eating sausages for tea, drinking gluhwein and watching the Weihnachtsmann gliding above them on wires? Only Jah knows.
They didn't mind staying in hotels but the only issue was food. It meant being out most of the day and having to eat out and in places like Paris that became difficult to do cheaply. Now they were in Germany at Christmas time there was plenty of reasonably priced food available.
Coffee was also more suited to them here. In Paris they found mostly pompous over-priced table service cafes - not their scene. In Germany they could get their own and just sit without all the fuss to keep out of the cold for an hour or so. Their particular cafe of choice was called World Cafe and in it was a Rasta turtle painted on the walls.
