elsie's romp through europe

bummer, my weeks holiday in north germany is now over! Managed to see quite a bit this time tho for a change. Went to the north sea and visited some of the tiny wierd little islands scattered around the place. one of the islands only had one little house all by its lonesome self. The landscape there is really...one of a kind, so unbelievably flat and (when i was there) grey and solitary, not the most exciting of places but great to chill out. and on these islands grows a special kind of salty grass which geese love, so every year 20% of the worlds goose population visits these islands and eats the grass, now that is a sight! Theres also a special type of excursion on offer called "watt wanderung" which is a trekk at low tide through the "watt" or mud. because a few decades ago the islands werent islands at all but throught some massive flood they became islands and now you can walk (albeit through a whole lot of black muck, which is meant to be really good for your feet) to some of the islands. I also stayed in Flensburg (harbour town) where the hairdresser managed to give me the exact same haircut i had when i was 12...i might avoid the 10EUR hairdressers from now on.
Now Hamburg is an awesome city! Friday night was spent on the "große freiheit" which used to be (and to tell teh truth still is) the red light district of hamburg. but now its metamorphisesed into party central. there are so so so many people and every type of club you can imagine, from the all to present techno, to clubs which have really good live rock bands, and anything else you can think of. haha, i dont know if its a common phenomena, but ive noticed the past few times ive been up north that there are always photographers wandering round taking photos of the party-goers. i dont know about the rest of the world, but for me 6 hours of dancing and countless tequilas (we ordered double the amount we wanted through the inevitable language barrier) dont equal the most flattering photos! i found a couple of me yesterday, its a bit unfair that the whole internet-accessing public can see them and then write comments in varying degrees of rudeness...oh well. Tomorrow its back to Hamburg for a great big shop and to pick up my jacket i left there (ooops), meet up with nice boy i met there (yay) and then its back to Munich till my next exploit!
over and out!

still two months till my trip to italy and am having a terrible time trying to organise and arrange everything. unreliable italian government train websites that either dont work or are (understandably) in italian are making it ever so hard to plan our trip. if it was up to me we'd just trekk our way over there and plan things as we went...but i spose if one only has two weeks and a very limited amount of euros its best to plan ahead...damn. but so far we have decided to start in rome, look round for a couple of days then catch a ferry to sardinia where we'll stay for 4/5 night (we decided that the whole beach experience was more important than the history). then were gonna catch a ferry to the mainland and make our way to ...(undecided) and then back down to rome, then over to munich! now all that fails is the details...

i saw advertised today flights for 19EUR to hamburg after i'd just paid 60 a couple of weeks ago...fairly annoying