Hannover 2

Woah... I love this friggin city! I went to this amazing club - Phoenix - salsa night, filled with latins, spanish, cubans you name it... and a few anglos and germans to boot. Salsa dancing all night - I slowly learnt how, thinking about how a twisted ankle could ruin my trip... however that never eventuated. Leave your insular german culture at the door in this place. This is full-on latin culture - the guy asks the girl (who I did not see refuse once) and she dances - no kissing or touching naughty bits, however there is some grinding - although I didn't go there :) and they part ways at the end of the song and the "deck of cards reshuffles" for the next dance. No matter if you are rich or poor - the best dancers rule the floor - sometimes the guys dance with each other trying to out do each other move by move duelling banjos style. One of the guys managed to rip his pants. The girls also dance together in two styles - one where one of the girls replicates the role of the guy and the other where they free dance, no body contact, but basically try to outdo each other trying to dance as erotically as possible within the scope of the dance style. Either way the idea is to exicte the guys to sum up the courage to dance with them. Alcohol is consumed in this place, but in serious moderation - I guess you can't dance if you are shitafaced.

A danceclub where the primary function is to actually dance... Who'd have thought? ** More Magdeburg bashing ** My taxi driver who took be back to my hotel informed me he had the misfortune to have worked in magdeburg for 9 years before moving to hannover. He added some clarity to the madgeburg issue and their serious dislike of foreigners - now i learn this... another flashback to Antje in Brandenburg AH....

Tommorrow night - over 30's night at the OSHO also known as the Baggi (really famous club in Hannover - and also a short walk from my hotel). This could be fun or really unfortunate depending how far the clientele are over 30 - well if it sucks then back to the Phoenix I guess...

off to explore Hannover city