Summer meeting of the Free and Open Couchcity Hamburg 2007

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General Information

From the 3rd-5th of August 2007 the Summer meeting of the Free and Open Couchcity Hamburg will take place in Hamburg, Germany. Everyone is invited to join us! (By the way: This is NOT a meeting of OpenCS, what someone was misinterpreting from the name.)

We'll organize different activities from friday evening to Sunday afternoon, but you are also welcome to take part in single actions (please see the detailled programm if a registration is necessary). All activities are for local Hosts AND Couchsurfers from all over the world. And of course every on else.

Program

Friday, August 3rd

Evening: St. Pauli - Warm up!

Professional guided tour through the famous Hamburg redlight-district and much more
Meetingpoint: 19:00, Busstop at U-Bahn St. Pauli
Afterwards: Local beers and sodas in local pubs and whatever comes along ... after the guided tour we meet up between 21:00-22:00 at our regulary meet-up Cafe Absurd (Clemens-Schultz-Straße 84, 20359 Hamburg). Let's see what happens.

Saturday, August 4th

Afternoon: Hamburg CS paper chase

Meetingpoint: 13:00 Terrace at the Youthhostel, Am Stintfang
(Public Transport: S-Bahn/U-Bahn Landungsbrücken; from there go the stairs uphill following the signs to "Jugendherberge/DJH/Youthhostel" - just 171 steps up the hill)
What's this about? We send you through the City with some funny stuff to do and to make sure you'll see a lot of the interesting places of the city.
Useful things: valid ticket for HVV (dayticket or group dayticket), pens & paper, photo camera, rain protection & sun milk, curiousness & good mood.

Evening: Party at Knallhart

Adress: Von-Melle-Park 9; Directions: S-Bahn Dammtor, Busses 4 or 5)

• 18:00 Vegetarian Dinner
  We'll cook something vegetarian and will politely ask for a donation to cover the costs. Please tell us, if you plan to come (and/or are a Vegan)!
• Sunset till down - Party
  DJs and Entertainment, Drinks for reasonable prices (only to cover the costs, no earnings planned ;), Results form the paper chase and more.

Sunday, August 5th

Early 6:00 (!) Hamburg-Fishmarket

For all the hard partying couchsurfers and fishlovers ... Meeting point: under the plastic palm trees in the park in front of the St.Pauli Church (at the pedestrian overpass above Hafenstrasse/Fischmarkt on the street Pinnasberg)

10:00 Brunch at Knallhart

Directions see Party at Saturday. Hot and cold drinks will be there, please bring some (vegetarian) food!

Accomodation

Do a regular Couchsearch for Hamburg, if there comes a time where couches will be hard to find, we'll organize a list of still free couches or cheap alternatives.

General Registration

• Please get registered at the CS-meeting page

Volunteering

At several occasions we may ask for assistance (Cleaning up at Knallhart, cooking coffee ...), but if you want to help out with something special or want to volunteer in planning please contact the moderators of the planning group to join the group.

What to bring

• For Accomodation (Sleeping bags, blankets, Tents, ...) please ask your host
• Food for the brunch at Sunday
• Think about different types of clothing: casual stuff for the warmer daytime, some warmer clothing for the evening.

Other (non-CS)events in Hamburg this weekend

Friday, August 3rd

• 22:00 Rote Flora - concert "30 Jahre Punk" (30 years of punk)
• 22:30 (door open 21:00) Störtebeker - concert Zann (HC/Punk from Leipzig) + Betty Oetker (Punk/HC from Hamburg)

Saturday, August 4th

• 12-15:00 Christopher-Street-Day (Parade)
• 15:30 soccer: St. Pauli vs. Leverkusen (probably no Tickets available)

Sunday, August 5th

• 14:30 soccer SC Victoria (local champion, 5th league?) vs. Nürnberg (1st league) - Adress: Victoria Stadion "Hoheluft", Lokstedter Steindamm 87, 22529 Hamburg (Tickets 15,00-30,00 € - probably reduced for students). Added to the schedule by public demand.