about Hamburg

Yesterday, after a 4 hours train journey, I arrived in Hamburg to spend the day. This was my second time in the city, and I was ready to spend all my time there walking around. Three weeks ago, when I first visited the city, I couldn't help but feel a weird vibe while walking on its streets. It was a positive feeling, yet I seemed not to understand the city. There was a constant rarity and a troubling sense of loss in every corner. 

This enigmatic sensation is what made want to go back as soon as I had time for it. And yesterday, the feeling didn't vanish, but I understood that was the good thing about the city, it's just simply very different from everything I've seen before. 

This is a place unapologetically sincere to the visitor. It doesn't hide the dirt, the graffities, the gentrification and social differences, the radical spirit and the old-century commercial capitalism, the ugliness of the menacing buildings, their sins and their anger. Hamburg is one proud metropolis and accepting it as it is, makes it one of the most inspiring and truly interesting places I've ever visited.