Great trip! Germany can be soo cool. I saw Ukraine-Saudiarabia in Hamburg, Germany-Ecuador in Berlin (on the fan mile), and Iran-Angola in Leipzig. Sleeping in youth hostels in Hamburg for one night and in Leipzig for two nights.
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| Ukraine-Saudiarabia in Hamburg - the police showing presence ... | Lots of presence ... | Not necessary for peaceful and happy fans :-) |
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| The Ukranian fan block | The stadium | National anthiems |
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| Saudi-Arabian fans - would've loved to be in the Ukranian block ... | The slogan "A time to make friends" and "Say no to racism" | Let the games begin ... |
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| And there they started ... no more pics as it was pretty silent around me seeing that Saudi-Arabia lost 4:0 ;-) | More police presence after the game | Hamburg's fan area - way cool with a tent for each of the 32 participating nations. The Brazilian tent was a BIG party (mostly inhibited by Spanish and Ukranian fans after their 3:1 and 4:0 wins :) |
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| Random drunk fans who wanted me to take their picture | One of the busy "tourist" streets in Hamburg - apparently this is transforming from a red light district to just a hip party street | Crazy roommates in the hostel - drinking until 3am with loud music and many other guests as well as the hostel manager complaining |
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| Sven, another crazy roommate | Next morning, Hamburg's town hall. This is HUGE, having 547 rooms or so, 6 more than the Buckingham Palace at any rate | Aeh, don't remember what was special about this ... |
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| The carvings on this door were prepared by orphans over a course of 5 years, and that for free. They did this in order to show their gratitude for the orphanage that the mayor set up. | Yeah, what was this again ?? | Justice on the right and strength (?) on the left, to symbolize how the senat should rule |
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| Town Hall from outside, just doesn't fit onto a picture and I was too lazy to do a panorama (both in height and width)... | Already on the fan mile in Berlin. Klinsi, Voeller, Berti and Kaiser Franz. | Volleyball nets right on the fan mile - awesome :-) |
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| Before the game against Ecuador | Me and my flag | Again |
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| And again ... dunno why he did it 3 times ... | The German lineup being presented - no pics during the game, only videos ... | Some dudes climbing a traffic light after the game |
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| I think they stayed there for at least 30 minutes | German flags ... rare enough | DSCN1862 |
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| Those guys partied a little too hard later on, breaking the table | Dieter and Ansgar, the guys I met in the train and went to the fan mile with. Really nice and fun guys (despite Dieter's mean face on this picture ;-) | Dieter |
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| DSCN1868 | The guy on the traffic light got reinforcement ... | I like it how you see Dieter's "Deutschland" through the flag ! |
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| Well, Ansgar told us to lock crazy ... | We were just waiting for the lights to break (they screeched quite a bit when the guys were jumping), but German quality work ... they held all of it. | Posing |
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| The last of 5 screens, just in front of the Brandenburger Tor (the fan mile starts at the Siegessaeule) | Dieter and their friend whose place they crashed at in Berlin (Markus?) | Sitting at the Spree - very nice :-) |
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| Continued police presence seemed to help - I didn't see any incidents... | "Just one more bottle of beer" ... | There was a continuous stream of people on that bridge in the background for many hours |
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| Nice ship with fans | Fan swimming in the Spree - first hw thought the cops would mind, so he returned right away ... | But they didn't care, so they continued ... |
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| ... and showed some acrobatic tricks :-) | Ansgar and Dieter | ... with open eyes |
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| Me and my flag again ... | Back to the fan mile to see Italy vs. Sweden | Somewhere on the way back to the Hauptbahnhof |
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| Berlin Hauptbahnhof - this picture isn't impressive at all, but the station is. 5 stories, simply HUGE - and a confusing. | Leipzig Hauptbahnhof. Only 3 stories, but really cool (see more pics later) | An awesome shop! "Kif" stands for "Smoke up", which is forbidden by law in Germany and not tolerated quite as much as in Vancouver |
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| First get informed - then consume ... | No words ... | Prevent wars |
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| All kind of stuff around drugs... | Leipzig Hauptbahnhof again. Soo much stuff to buy. They build a shopping mall right into the station - way cool :-) | Big fusbol tournament at Leipzig Hauptbahnhof |
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| A random house in Leipzig downtown | Flags of the teams playing in Leipzig, IN the Nicolaikirche | The Nicolaikirche. The banners say "openness" and "fairness" |
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| Cafes and bars EVERYWHERE | Monument for the remembrance of a Jewish synagoge that was burnt by faschists in 1938 - "do not forget" | The monument |
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| Little beer garden - not really a garden, though ... | The stadium | DSCN1919 |
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| Angolian fans at the 1:0 against Iran | DSCN1924 | DSCN1925 |
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| Party in the streets after the game | Statue in front of Auerbach's Keller from Goethe's Faust | Second statue in front of Auerbach's Keller from Goethe's Faust |
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| J.S. Bach lived and worked in Leipzig | In the Bach Museum | Bach's grave in the St. Thomas church right next to the museum and visible in the background of the statue |
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| St. Thomas church | St. Thomas church - choire area. Bach was Master of the choir for 27 years | DSCN1936 |
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| DSCN1940 | DSCN1941 | In Auerbach's Keller |
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| DSCN1943 | The old town hall | DSCN1945 |
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| DSCN1946 | In the Stasi museum | DSCN1949 |
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| Camouflage set for Stasi members | The Stasi was well armed ... | ... and a military organisation with titles and ranks for every member. |
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| Propaganda in the soccer stadium | ||