Of all the bars in Hamburg, this is the only place I visited twice while I was there. The first…read morenite it was really quiet, & I made friends with this couple who were staying in the hotel above us, & at one point we all got a little misty-eyed at the same song on the radio. When I went back for a last time before leaving the next morning there must have been an opera letting out nearby, because the place was thronged with well-dressed 60-somethings ordering enough tropical cocktails to sink Tahiti. The bartender was this sassy gal from Munich I think she said, & she was clearly putting in the paces to keep up, but when it all died down us survivors had some shots of kümmel & I walked off into the nite feeling pretty dang fine. Had one hell of a hangover on the airplane, though. Choices! :-] CR