Hamburg - Part I: Getting there

We had planned to take the 7am train to Hamburg. This way we can get there at 11am and then come back at 6pm. But Jingwen took a while getting ready in the morning and we missed the bus. The next bus comes in half an hour. I had told her which bus and subway we had to take in order to catch the train to Hamburg the night before. But she looked at the bus schedule in the morning and thought that there was another bus that comes 10 minutes after the one I said to take. But she was looking at the wrong hour and we ended up walking to the train station. It took us 35 minutes to get to Wannsee. And then from Wannsee, we took a S-Bahn to the Haufbahnhof and got there about 10, 20 minutes after the train left. Carolyn had been waiting for us. So then we looked up schedules for other places that we can possibly go. In the end, we decided to wait 2 hours and still go to Hamburg.

We wandered around the train station and got some pastries. While we were eating, some guys came and sat next to us. They told us to go and check out the sand sculptures. There had been a competition yesterday. So we did. It was amazing, as you can see from the pictures. The big one is really, really big.

After this, we finally got on the train. We had to transfer at Schwerin after about 2 and a half hours. We chatted the whole way there. It was an enjoyable ride. When we got to Schwerin, we had half an hour before our next train came. So we walked around the city. There was a big lake with a fountain. It was really nice and quiet since it was early afternoon on Sunday. Not many people out.