Travelogue 7

Today we went to the Hamburg Dungeon. It is a place, which has a 3 hr scary show with Blood sucking vampires and ghosts straight from the Dracula and scaryface. Pammy darling had booked the tickets online for all of us. Later however a lot of people told us that it is not meant for Anoushka. Nevertheless, we felt that if they are selling tickets for Children online, the show will be appropriate for Anoushka. So midst snowfall, which had stopped all these days we went to the Dungeon for the 2 p.m show. One bus and then a wrong one and finally a taxi took us there. On reaching, we realised that it is certainly not for children below 10. So we spoke to the Duty manager, who helped us sell off 2 of our adult tickets and argued with him that if only the net had said so, we wouldn’t have got Anoushka. Realising their folly, he offered us two more adult tickets instead of the one child ticket (for free) Apan Indians smart. Punha kon yenaar, bhoot bangla bagayla. Amhi tee don tickets, lagech vikoon takli and mokley jhalo. Ofcourse, those tickets were at a discounted price, so we lost an opportunity to make some cool profit J But that was never the aim. We were happy that we did not have to bear a loss of 53 € (The cost of our tickets) On our way back home, we ate the famous Kumpir and I had a lovely local beer ‘The Alster’ (that is also the name of the local lake here) It is beer mixed with Sprite and to my surprise it was yummy, for I don’t otherwise like Cocktails.

We have made friends with a Punju, who owns a very famous American Restaurant named ‘Doris Diner’ just next door. We went to meet him yesterday, with some Tilgul. It is so amazing, that this Punju guys brother came to Hamburg 25 yrs ago, worked in the kitchen of a restaurant, got his brothers and cousins and relatives to work with him and today they run a very successful restaurant, which is always so full of people. And mind you, it is an American Restaurant and it sells the best ‘Steaks’ in Hamburg. Yes, they are number 1 in Hamburg for American food and the Chef is apna Punju bhai. Really, how enterprising can these people be ! I’ve never heard such a tale about a Maharashtrain. Wonder why ? Are we less enterprising, less adventurous or simply very middle class, no risk taking people. Apli naukri bhali.

I plan to go to the Gurudwara next weekend. There is also a Mandir, supposedly built by some Hindu’s from Afghanistan. And I was under the impression that Afghanistan only produces Taliban ! Let’s see if we can make it next weekend.