Quite late...

I think I've to excuse me. I didn't write anything in the last time although some of you might have liked to read about my life in Hamburg. But I may tell you that it was not my fault. First, I had to work for my institute and that meant sitting all day in front of the computer. So, after work I wasn't very keen on sitting, typing and writing again. (On the other side, this means that I also had enough to do at the institute now. Most of the time I was searching for information, once about the UN-intervention in Somalia 1993/94 whose conditions may be similar to those the UNIFIL-troops in Lebanon might be concerned with in the near future. The other thing had to do with Turkey and I'm quite happy with that!)

Well, and the second circumstance that made me not writing anything for the blog was that my computer had some virus problems. Eleven of these f*cking b*stards I had on my computer, fortunately they didn't destroy anything but just blocked the system. I hope that from now on working with Mozilla Firefox or Opera instead of the Windows Internet Explorer will save me from those problems!

I really hope that everybody of you is fine and enjoys life. By the way I really like to know if anybody of you also has a weblog or an own homepage. Please tell me, I'm curious!
About my state of being I may say that I enjoy my daily life in Hamburg quite well. When the weather was good I went for a lot of walks through the town, accompanied by my photo camera and taking pictures. I put some of them on my photo page.
Hamburg is a beautiful city with much water. The river Elbe divides the town into two parts, on the southern shore there is the huge harbour area (after Rotterdam Hamburg has the second biggest industrial harbour in Europe, as far as I know), whereas on the northern shore the whole urban area lies. More than the Elbe there is the Alster, infact a small river that was turned into a huge lake right in the center of the downtown. Here, the well-established have their own sailing boats and small yachts lying in harbours and sailing clubs, and so, everybody can enjoy the view on dozens of white sails over blue water fighting with and aginst the stiff wind. (And so do I when I go the work each day.)

Walking around the Alster was what I did last weekend. North of it there are a quarters of the well-established, Rotherbaum, Eppendorf or Winterhude, whereas in the west you can find St. Pauli, famous for its football club that is totally not successful but that is loved and supported by almost everyone, and famous for the Reeperbahn - a long street with sexshops and cinemas, bars and nightclubs, strip shows and brothels and lots of other places for lonely hearts and open pockets. If you want to know more, please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reeperbahn;-)

So far so good and instead of describing more by words I think its better to do it visually by pictures. So please have a look at the photo page and even more important: don't forget to tell me about your state of being.

Best wishes to everyone
Lütfü

P.S.: By the way, above you can see my cousin Thomas and me before going to the Hofbräuhaus, a Bavarian style restaurant in Hamburg (for a Bavarian as me it's something a little ridiculous, but "the Prussians" like it...)

P.P.S.: I don't know why, but although I try to set the links to my photo page and to delete the Google News and Edit me-Links, the changings cannot be seen. Stupid! So, I give you the link to my photo page directly here: It's www.flickr.com/photos/seemecrossing .