September challenge: the details

[kake]

OK! So I mentioned there would be another Flâneurs challenge, and here it is.

The instructions for the June challenge were relatively complicated, so I decided to do a simpler one this time.

To participate in the September challenge:

• Leave a top-level comment on this post, stating the name of the city/town you'll be doing your challenge in. (You can leave more than one comment if you want to walk in more than one place.)
• Wait for September, during which time hopefully other community members will reply to the comment as described below, giving you a selection of starting points for your walk.
• Once it's September, pick one of the starting points you've been given, do a walk of any length or type starting from that point, and report back.

To help others complete their September challenge:

• Choose one of the top-level comments on this post which contain the name of a town/city.
• Use an atlas, online map, etc, to select a starting point within that town/city. You can choose a point that you think will result in a pleasant walk, a challenging walk, a walk that's likely to produce a report that you'll find interesting, any criteria you like.
• Leave a comment specifying your chosen point, and optionally the criteria you used to choose it.

Comments

[pne]

Hamburg, Germany.

(Or just outside - inside public transport ring C.)

[spiralsheep]

My usual method of navigating around middle European cities is to head for the most famous bakery and then work my way out from there. Sadly, while Hamburg has famous pastries, google has failed me on the bakeries. While I was searching, however, I found these....

Possibly too cliched but a good place to sit and eat pastries:

http://www.sandtorhafen.de/

Did you know that British engineer William Lindley sorted out the sewerage systems for several major European cities including Hamburg where he's remembered with both a statue and a street named in his honour (albeit an apparently rather dull street if the online images are anything to go by):

Wikipedia on the statue: "Lindley memorial is located in Hamburg near underground station Baumwall at the entrance to sewage system."

Wikipedia on the street: "The small 'Lindleystraße' in Hamburg's Rothenburgsort."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lindley#Memorials