14 Nov 2024
We arrived in Hamburg and took the tour from near the City Hall on one of the yellow/red buses. As we were driving around the Alster lake we decided to get off for a walk, I checked the front of the bus so we would know which one to get back on...'C-line'. After finding a lovely coffee shop we headed back to the bus stop. Three buses pulled up and we got on the red and yellow 'C line' however the driver tried to tell us our bus was one of ones in front, which had already departed, and refused to let us board. It was clearly the right bus. Luckily another bus pulled up ten minutes later, one of the red ones, and after a conversation with the driver, and him reiterating that we were correct and our bus was a red/yellow one, he kindly allowed us to get on his bus, and he even added in some English commentary too. What a lovely man! We were so grateful as we were concerned about being abandoned and how long it might take us to get back to the city.