Hamburg
Travel Blogs from Hamburg, Germany
Hamburg, Germany
... tourists and frankly, there isn't much to do here in terms of visiting old cathedrals or historical significance. But, I'm glad I visited Hamburg for couple of reasons. Before I begin though, I must come clean and say I was bit skeptical about Germany. ...
Life in the fast lane
Flight over Pick up hitchhiker Diana getting stopped by police "What are you hiding" in German Bastian responding in English after waiting for my response that never ...
Hamburg
... ?" A group of serously baked fratboys in the next seat stared at their pens for a half hour before marking a resounding "Ja!" Germany (again). At 4.36 yesterday arvo, Liam and I pulled into Lübeck station. I think it was Lübeck. Something ...
Bohemian like you
... an alright place. Quite a few churches with big steeples. Yet another town with a lot of pedestrian shopping. Lubeck Back to Hamburg to explore around. The Rathaus is one of the better ones I've seen and their St Nicholas church is cool (remnants ...
Stand Up, If You Still Believe
... fans !!! I asked some Germans near us who they would be supporting and they stated Fulham because of the following. 1) Fulham knocked Hamburg out 2) Fulham is only tiny 3) The Queen is German 4) Mark Schwarzer is a German Actually, number 4 is a lie as ...
Grimm's Brothers Fairy Tales
... a river, surrounded by some castles. Asking the price, we braced ourselves as we were expecting a high price considering our experience in Hamburg. The total came to 12 Euros, showers clean and free. So we pitched the tent and climbed a mountain where we ...
Eclipse and another chapter
... left the comfort of the station wagon now and said farewell to my mates Pete and Emma. I got them to drop me off outside Hamburg where I will now be hitchhiking. They are off to Amsterdam and then back to London. After a tense hour of no rides I ...
Die Hamburger wissen wie es geht
... beautiful where Berlin is rough and edgy, Hamburg is very chick where Berlin is hip...many contrasts. But we are ready for some scenic bicycle rides along the many canals (apparently Hamburg has more canals than Venice) and good dinners with our ...
Eat a burger...
... actually invented in America by a man who was from Hamburg - so there you go! Again, I arrived into another freezing cold place in Germany in my thongs. At first it wasn't too bad as the rest of me was all rugged up, but soon my toes turned a lovely ...
Sin City
... go to another room or something. This was met with cheers from the rest of us who could now get some sleep. Woohoo! As they say, one man´s trash is another man´s treasure. All in all, Hamburg was a disappointment for me. Going to Köln now ...
Good Bye Germany
Nach wochenlanger Planung, ist der Tag auf den wir so lange hingefiebert haben nun endlich da. Nur noch wenige Stunden und es geht zum Flughafen. Die Rucksaecke sind gepackt für sechs Wochen Thailand und was da sonst noch so auf uns wartet. In ...
Wilkommen in Deutschland
... I will be sure to enjoy myself on the weekends and share some photos and stories along the way. I've now been in Hamburg Germany for two weeks. I hit the ground running with the superbowl starting at 1230 am on my first night here. ...
Wieder zurück in Hamburg
... wir waren nochmal auf dem Alstervergnügen (Alstervergnügen, Alsterlust, Alster.... keine Ahnung irgendwie so) und der Rest der Woche war arbeiten, Rucksack kaufen und Wohnung ausräumen. Bye, bye Hamburg, ich hoffe wir sehen uns bald ...
Frohe Weihnachten from Hamburg !
... all these cheesy hits, promoting his very own Christmas CD. No idea who he was, but the crowd loved him ! The Hamburg markets also provide fantastic opportunities to do our Christmas shopping for everyone back home. The range of homemade and local crafted ...
Schanzenfest: aka Rioting in Hamburg!!
... our fun drinking, others in the city were seeking their own ways of celebrating. Namely, clashing with police. I was in Hamburg at the end of a celebration known as Schanzenfest. The background here goes back several years, and to be honest would ...
Hamburg
... sauce, cabbage, corn and toasted....mmm.... SO GOOD! We ended up having them every night we could whilst we were in Germany... This has been a wonderful chance to get into a European youth headspace. It's so great to talk to other people ...
Wharf Speed
... yoghurt's, hard-boiled eggs, fresh fruits, assorted cold meats (ham, salami, turkey), 3-4 different cheeses, smoked salmon (laks) and a Hamburg favorite (and mine!) Bismark herring (don't knock it, until you try it). Because Hamburg is a ...
Fear the Reeper
... ships also carried some "bads", namely nasty communicable tropical diseases. In 1892, during a worldwide cholera epidemic, Hamburg was hit especially hard and suffered terribly. As a result of this, in 1900 the Institute for Maritime and ...
When That Day Comes...
... on our merry way on line U3. This is the famous line that ascends to the surface and travels above ground past Hamburg's waterfront on a raised steel structure. We disembarked right near the old port and warehousing area, now known as HafenCity. This ...
The life and the house of Hans Christian Andersen
... 't know and proceeded to read them aloud to each other on our ride. Quickly moving out of Denmark, we progressed on to Hamburg Germany for the night. We pulled into McDonalds and booked a hotel. One thing about McDonalds, you get clean bathrooms and ...
Arrival in Hamburg (Nathan)
... thought was there. The rest of the day was spent riding the train. It didn't seem like such a long distance between Amsterdam and Hamburg, but it must have been, because it was very, very dark when we arrived in Hamburg, so dark that we could barely read ...
"Ain't nobody here but us Lutherans"
... church was completed in 1893. During the last century, immigration led to an increase in the Catholic population in Hamburg. Consequently, after a 1100-year absence the Archdiocese of Hamburg was re-established only in 1995 and the "new" ...
And then, what's a Naturist?
... landmark. The church was the tallest building in the world from 1874 to 1876 and is still the second tallest building in Hamburg. The current condition of the Nikolaikirche is the result of air raids by the Brit's during World War II on Nazi ...


