BREMEN - HAMBURGO

BREMEN

Another trip, another trilogy. We didn´t think a lot about what should be the place, where we can go to feel as well as we wanted, as we needed, but we were already there, in the north west of Germany ready to feel the freedom in our blood, in our being.

I had been thinking, imagining,  a lot about Bremen. I had read everywhere that it was a wonderful city, a typical place you can see only in a tale, and I am not going to tell that it was an ugly place, anything, but it was not as beautiful as I had seen in my mind. So I finished a little disappointed with the city, which was totally lonely.

However, it is true that it has some diferents and specials districts and streets. If I should choose a place from Bremen, I have very clear Schnoor could be the scene. It is an spectacular district with the tipical builts we can see in the books and pictures about the city. The most important square in Bremen, Marktplatz, is interesting and atractive, as Böttcherstrasse, but not as long as they were in my mind. Beck´s, the beer factory, was closed, so it could be a good excuse to return maybe in some christmas and taste again the beer, the leverkase, the feeling at Edel Weiss.

HAMBURGO

Europako bigarren porturik handiena eta garai luze batez handiena izanda, metala, iluntasuna, eta hezetasuna espero nuen bertan aurkitzea eta, kasu honetan, ez nintzen konfunditu. Garabiak itsasadar osoan zehar, kanal luze eta zikin xamarrak hirigunean eta bertatik, uretatik, jaiotako adreiluzko eraikuntza ilun xamarrak eta ilunagoa oraindik agerian geratzen zen Reeperphan iskutuko ingurua. Itsusiaren edertasauna.

Heldu eta lehenengo "X"-a, inoiz baino hobeto esana, jartzera joan beharra zegoen. argi gehiegiko kaleen ondoan zeuden, argi gutxiko kaleetatik, debekuaren kale laberintikoetatik, abiatu The Bird magikora heltzeko, inoiz dastatuko Hamburgesa hoberenaz disfrutatzera. Infernutik hain gertu dagoen paradisu gastronomikora...

St Paulin geunden, larunbat gau batean, haragia jaten, haragia ikusten. Beatles-en hastapena ikusi zuen auzoan, Pigale imitatzen saiatu zen kalean, ezkertiar kutsuaz busti den zonaldean, kaiaren ondoan jaio eta hazi den izaera handiko leku horietako batean.

Auzo honen eta bi laku erraldoien artean geratzen da Hamburgoko erdigunea, baina ez alde zaharra, baizik eta adreiluzko eraikuntza tradizional eta kristalezko edifizio berriz nahasitako auzoa. Gehitu honi zenbait ur iluneko kanal, lurperatu eta agerian agerian gelditzen den metro eta bere burdinezko trenbidea eta jadanik baduzu Hamburgo erdigunearen irudirik gertukoena, baina seguraski ez bere esentzia, hori portuan aurki baitezakezu eguzkia iskutatzen den bitartean paseo eder bat emanez.