Comments on: Sweet English Suburbia in Hamburg

By: Andy Polaine

Andy Polaine — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:27:08 +0000

Na, Sweet Suburbia was run by a German woman.

Karin got food poisoning from some bad sausage in Hahndorf...

By: tim

tim — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:51:28 +0000

ah, i think the other two shops i mentioned are run by ex-pats, not sure if suburbia was.
and i did experience hahndorf in 2004 and found it rather discomforting. even the service was (by australian measures) quite rude…therefore authentic!

By: tim rudder

tim rudder — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:51:39 +0000

i get that feeling a fair bit living in japan with their strong interest in western culture and also their reinterpretations of it.

the feeling when walking into stores like that gets a bit stranger when you see everyday objects from years back that have quite a lot of personal childhood nostalgia. even if it is just simple pots and pans similar to what your mother or grandmother used to use or books that you learned to read with in primary school..

By: Andy Polaine

Andy Polaine — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:51:01 +0000

I didn’t realise you Northern Germans were so fascinated with Englishness! You need to go to Handorf in South Australia and experience faux-German culture there… just don’t eat the sausages, they’re not that great.

By: tim

tim — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:24:42 +0000

glad you found that Ottensen shop around the corner from where we used to live (near Eva’s home as you know). the fashion area of said shop is nice and quirky in a homely way, too.
There is another Bristish goods shop on Streesemannstra corner of Alsenstrasse, i think it is called ‘Broken English’. Another one is in Eppendorf, near U Eppendorfer Baum, but I forgot which street. you see, Hamburg is (apart from the weather) welcoming and pleasant, even when you are English.