Robert Berridge, owner of English Books and British Foods in Stresemannstrasse speaks to one of many British Day visitors buying at his stall (photo: The Hamburg Express)

Just for the pasties

One of the main reasons people visit British Day, the annual cultural charity event for native English speakers and anglophiles is the British food. While the British are not exactly famous for their cuisine throughout the rest of Europe there are some specialties people do enjoy very much. Some even came to the event at the Hamburg Polo Club just for the food.

(photo: The Open University)

What is a "Rundstueck warm"?

This year's British Day, the annual cultural charity event for native English speakers and anglophiles in Klein Flottbek, featured a lot of talk and much of it in English. If you could not understand all of it, there were enough educational institutions around to help you out. However, to win an English evening class you needed to know what a "Rundstueck warm" is, since this was the answer to one of the questions on the quiz arranged by the English school "Tandem Hamburg".

  (photos: top: BCCG British Day e.V. / bottom: The Hamburg Express)

Have you ever played "welly wanging"?

You could have done so at British Day . The annual charity event was a success for almost everybody who participated.  Native English speakers and anglophiles came for British food and entertainment. Be it the visitors, exhibitors or organizers, all enjoyed the sunny weekend at the Hamburg Polo Club. The Hamburg Express now takes a look back at some of the clubs and their British Day experience, including a sport that could only have been invented by the British.