decidedlyodd

I’m currently in Hamburg, sitting at some internet cafe near my hotel, the Hotel Village. My hotel apparently used to be a bordello, but now it’s just some hip place that was once used in a photo shoot by Nena (of ‘99 Luftbaloon’ fame). I’m up on the fifth floor (which in America would be the sixth floor because the ground floor never seems to count here) of a building with no elevator. At least I have a room with a balcony and a view though. And a large folding wall thingee emlazoned with Audrey Hepburn’s picture. I’ve taken photos (which I’ll probably not be able to post until I get home) show all this better.

Anyhow, since arriving I’ve been coping with jetlag as best I can. It always takes me several days to accomodate, except this time I’ll probably be used to it just in time to return to Seattle.

Copenhagen was an interesting place. It’s sort of Seattle-like in that big city that doesn’t feel massive sort of a way. The weather was also a lot like Seattle–rainy and in the 50s. I wandered around the city a bit, walking by most of the sights like downtown, the Tivoli, the port and so forth. I stayed at the Hotel Windsor, which while small was a perfectly fine hotel. On Saturday night (the night I arrived), I went to Pan Club, which is a gay dance club in the city center. There were two dance floors but the pop hits one was more popular than the techno one. Of course, I didn’t seem to know many of these hits, because this stuff seems to vary so much around the world. I took some hot guy home, which is very unlike me but, well, I’m on vacation and needed to do some wild oat sowing while in Europe since I never did when I still lived here. To make a long story short, he had a lot of issues that were expressing themselves when we got back to my hotel (crazy family, body issues, fear of abandonment, etc.) but fortunately he passed out quickly in my bed and woke the next morning sober and infintely more charming. Turns out he was originally from Iceland (so exotic–there can only be like a couple thousand gay Icelandic boys in the whole world), a genuinely nice guy and a lot fun.

Anyhow, my time is about to run out. I’ll hopefully update again soon.