Last Thursday, my housemate Anja searched the entire place for paperclips. And found none. Again I was thinking of my mum who had (has?) the habit of picking up all those clips she found and making a necklace out of them. Since I was packing my bag for a weekend in Hamburg, and since there was a stop and the post office planned either way, I promised to buy paperclips. So apart from attending the Human(i)ties Perspectives Conference I had an actual purpose of going to Germany
photo: C.Wohlsperger
In Hamburg, our little big group (with 11 people, we were about 1/3 of the entire conference) listened to a lot of presentations on all sorts of issues ranging from publishing scientific books to becoming a correspondent to comparing tweets and feeds.
photo: C.Wohlsperger
photo: C.Wohlsperger
What I deemed far more interesting was that Hamburg is amazing! Since I will move to Hamburg next summer, yet have never been there, I was instantly relieved. And stunned. Of course we were lucky: the sun shone as brightly as we could hardly remember it could and everything (e.g. getting to the conference and back and forth and whatnot) went smoothly. It was a lot colder than in Aarhus, but we tried to keep warm with a few shots of Mexicanas in the evening, which for whatever dubious reasons are a real hype in Hamburg. Yet, during Friday and Saturday we mainly sat in presentations, and have shifted the sightseeing to the nighttime. We did the Reeperbahn and Schanzenviertel, the Fishmarket (conveniently connecting the sightseeing to a useful post-party snack) and danced in an old bunker that hosts a club called Übel und Gefährlich. Sprayed with confetti and a mild hangover, we decided to use the Sunday to walk around by daylight.
photo: C.Wohlsperger
I didn’t tell anybody, but next to the Binnenalster, in front of the city hall, I found a paperclip. There were pigeons and seagulls and swans and a pianist played Phil Collins’ Another Day in Paradise. I decided to see this as a good start for Hamburg and me.
photo: C.Wohlsperger
A little while later, the day was less than paradisical, because even daylight didn’t stop us from loosing Mia on the bridge to Harbour City. After about an hour of searching, guilt trips and worries (who said mobile phones are overrated??) we found her in the hotel lounge, with a cup of tea and a muffin. Everything turned out fine in the end; we had a car full of supermarket bags and luckily not checked at the border, and noticed that Hamburg is not even very far away from Aarhus. Perhaps there will be a next time soon.
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