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Last thursday evening Melanie and me went snowboarding. Some of you will be surprised, because Hamburg is not so very well know for it’s huge mountains and people who visited the area lately also know that it is actually much too warm for snow. But still – we went snowboarding. This was possible in the Snowdome Bispingen, which is an indoor ski slope, where you can go skiing, snowboarding or sledging all year round and in kind of every weather. The piste is about 300 m long and inclines between 9 % and 20 %. For someone who lives close to real mountains that’s of course just a good laugh, but even though I wouldn’t call it too impressive, we enjoyed it big time. As none of us brought a camera, I copied two pictures from the official website to give you an impression. This means of course that unfortunately there are no pictures of us showing all these great stunts…

(Source of the pictures)

Last weekends fantastic weather was more than enough reason for us to spend a day at the Elbe River in Hamburg. We took the subway to ‘Landungsbrücken‘ and changed there into a ferry boat to get to our final destination. In Hamburg you just need to have a normal subway ticket to be able to use the ferry boats for free (not to be mixed up with harbor tour boats!). Our original plan was to go for a walk at the Elbe beach, but as Tom hadn’t seen the famous Hamburg Beach Clubs before, we decided to check some of those out. Beach Clubs are something really popular in Hamburg, which explains why we have at least seven of them. We visited ‘Hamburg del mar‘, ‘Lago Bay‘ and ‘Hamburg City Beach Club‘, but in other areas of Hamburg you can also find ‘Strand Pauli‘, ‘Central Park‘, ‘Strandkai‘ and ‘Veritas Beach‘. All of them have something special to offer, so everybody could find one he or she likes. To get a proper first impression Tom and me spent some time in the three neighboring Clubs and we can’t even say, which is the one to be recommended most.