Last week, my husband and I spent a few days in Hamburg. I used to live there, and my family still does, so we visited with my mother and went out to lunch with her, my dad and my gran, whom I hadn't seen in two years. She is too old to come to Heidelberg, and last year we didn't manage to go to Hamburg, so that was quite a long time. It was nice to catch up, and we had a good time and good food. My gran is always interested in my spinning and the shop, and I like talking about yarn any time ;-)
On Saturday, my husband and I went into the city, did some shopping, met a colleague of his, spent some time at the
Alster, and then went to the Gateway of the World - the port of Hamburg. I brought a graffiti which I
had made a long time ago and saved for a special place. This was it! After all, this was a pirate graffiti and the famous pirate Klaus Störtebeker was beheaded in the port of Hamburg, it just seemed to fit.
The thing is, Hamburg's football club
FC St. Pauli has a skull and crossbones in their logo, and some people just can't tell the difference between football and pirates :-P When I installed the graffiti, there was a group of people coming past, and I heard them say something like "oh, a St. Pauli fan". I just ignored them, and thought of proper pirates, rum, and lots of treasure ;-)
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"[...]By this time, the media also started to establish nicknames like "Freibeuter der Liga" (buccaneers of the league)" (quote from the link above). Pauli IS a pirate's club! :D
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