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Europe » Germany » Hamburg » Hamburg October 6th 2015

Back in the second largest city in Germany. A city of water. Surprisingly, more bridges and canals than Amsterdam and Venice. Got smashed up horribly in WW2 with a terrifying firestorm created by bombing in 1943, killing an estimated 43,000 and destroying much of the city and dock areas. It's always been one of Germany's wealthiest areas and still is. A centre for banking, the media, big industries like AirBus and others, and an important port for exports and imports. A day of walking, some shopping and for Lyn to prepare for two days of work in Scheessel, visiting schools and attending evening seminars for parents and students. It's encouraging that already, just a few days after doing her thing at fairs, she's already getting follow up enquiries to come to HVHS. And that's what it's ... read more
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Europe » Germany » Hamburg » Hamburg September 30th 2015

Saturday 26/09/15 Down to the supermarket for some breakfast goodies. The day clear and sunny. Lyn had an all day seminar, meet prospective students, thing to attend. We walked to Mundsberg station to get the U Bahn to Lubecker, changed trains there and arrived at Stefansplatz station 20 minutes later. From there a short walk to 5 Rothenbaumschausee where the event was to be held. There were other teachers there from NZ - Thames, P. North, Nelson etc. I helped her set up then left on my mission to find a bike hire place. An hour and a half later, and after four different bits of direction advice from good German citizens, of still NOT finding a bike hire establishment I gave in and hired, gasp, an electric bike, which place I was able to find. ... read more
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Europe » Germany » Hamburg September 14th 2015

Zoe On Saturday we went to a Seal Hospital in the car. I had a sleep on Paula shoulder the hole time, the ride to the Seal Hospital took around two hours. When we got there we went to the get the tickets, then we went to look at some of the adult seals, the adult seal were big and small, But they were mostly big. It was very fun looking at the adult seals then we went and looked at the baby seals, the baby seals were very cute one of them was always laying on the ground and looking at us. The next day we drove to Heidelberg it took at least eight and a half hours to get there, when we got there we had dinner and I had chicken and potato. Then ... read more
Bella and Paula
Windmill farm
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Europe » Germany » Hamburg » Hamburg September 12th 2015

On Friday we got a train to the train station then we got a boat to the city. There were lots of houses on the river bank. There were big ones, small ones, fat ones and thin ones. Then we got to the city and went to a cafe. I has chips and sausages. My sister bella had chips and nuggets. There are lots of wasps in Germany, so what we had to do was catch them in our glasses. So when we we had an empty glass and it still had the smell of the drink you were drinking, the wasps should go in there, then you flip your glass and the wasp would be trapped. Then we all went to the toilet and when we got back there was a dead wasp in Bella's ... read more
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Europe » Germany » Hamburg August 29th 2015

Geo: 53.5534, 9.9922Roisin and I always try to take a break around about our anniversary which is then followed by my birthday a few days later. In May 2015, Roisin was indulging in one of her favourite pastimes – stalking MSC ships on a website called Sea Scanner. This is a site that tracks the route of cruise ships with the added facility to hack in to a ship's deckcam! Sea scanner is also a travel agent and advertise cruises from many of the mainstream cruise companies. They are based in Germany. It was during one of her 'sessions' that she stumbled across a short 7 night cruise around the Baltic at a ridiculously low price; the ship – the MSC Sinfonia. Having always dealt with the Tour Operator direct, Roisin immediately phoned MSC and asked ... read more
The clock tower of Hamburg's Rathaus
The TV tower in Hamburg
The door knocker of St Petri's church, Hamburg

Europe » Germany » Hamburg August 14th 2015

Geo: 53.5421, 9.9832We trained in to Hamburg to do a harbour tour, then Robyn stayed on for some shopping.... read more
Harbour cruise
Elbphilharmonie

Europe » Germany » Hamburg August 6th 2015

Geo: 53.5498, 9.9573Caught the train into St Pauli station and walked the length of Hamburg's main "red-light" street. Got all adventurous and returned at 11pm by a different train line to Ulzburg Sud, where we had parked in the park-n-ride.... read more
View from Clouds
Beatles Platz

Europe » Germany » Hamburg August 4th 2015

Geo: 53.5633, 9.96822After some online reconnaissance we ventured into the city today for a look around. We drove to a local train station and had no trouble buying day passes from a vending machine for €6 each. Parking was a little drama - the 'park n ride' we drove into closed at 9pm and there was a chance we'd be back later than that. So we parked on the street and stressed about getting a ticket (no, thankfully). Trains were comfortable, clean and convenient, and ran frequently.... read more
Rathaus (Town Hall)
Hafencity train station
Jan of WaterKant tours

Europe » Germany » Hamburg August 3rd 2015

Geo: 53.6354, 9.99739Itinerary: Brisbane to Frankfurt on Thai Royal Silk. 20.5 hr plane time plus a 3.5 hr connection in Bangkok. Boeing 777-300ER first then an Airbus A380-800 to Frankfurt. Another 3 hr wait in Frankfurt then 65 min to Hamburg via a Lufthansa Airbus A319-100, 138 seats 3x3. Finally, arrive at Hamburg Flughafen at 10:05am local, 31 hours after leaving home.Some of the 777 middle seats were side-by-side, but most of them were isolated pods - quite spacious and with a great lie-flat seat/bed. A good selection of movies, fine wines and the first travel leg was pretty easy. Needed my coat on all the time, though - the cabin temperature was cool. Five hours' sleep on the longer second leg to Frankfurt, warmer too.All automated and efficient at Frankfurt airport: check-in, baggage drop and ... read more
Seating in Royal Silk
Seat 11B

Europe » Germany » Hamburg » Hamburg July 23rd 2015

19:50 und wir warten... Nach einem brütend heißen Tag im Bezirk Mödling und vielen getroffenen und gut erledigten Vorbereitungen für unsere Reise nach Hamburg ++ sind Stefan und ich am Wiener Hauptbahnhof angekommen und warten auf den EN der uns über die Nacht friedlich nach Hamburg bringen soll. Wie wir den Kälteschock 38 Grad auf 21 Grad erleben und überleben werden - mal sehen; mit Sicherheit wird uns die Abkühlung gut tun und für unser geplantes City-Hopping sind das allemal bessere Bedingungen :-) ...und da wird auch schon unser Zug angekündigt und Stefan schultert den Rucksack und wir packen die Trolleys und Sackerln und sind bereit zur Besteigung. Unser Zugappartment ist sehr nett (nicht so luxuriös wie damals mit Mama) und Stefan ist positiv überrascht. Zur Feier öffne ich gleiche einen lauwarme Trin... read more




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