Hafengeburtstag 2017
The Hafengeburtstag (Harbour Birthday) is a big festival in Hamburg. Each year the city welcomes visitors and plenty of ships to celebrate its port.
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Pastry course at Zweimeilenladen: Chef for one day?
Sometimes you just want to do something different or feel twenty years younger. How about both? My evening as a “pastry chef” at Zweimeilenladen, Hamburg.
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Cherry Blossom Festival in Hamburg
If you can’t make it to the cherry blossoms in Japan, why not go to a Japan festival in your country? Almost every city with a sizeable Japanese population has a cherry blossom or Japan festival and Hamburg is no exception.
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Beatlemania & The John Lennon Museum
There are not many reasons to visit Saitama for sightseeing and one of my class mates – who is from Saitama City – couldn’t even name one. Actually there were two sights in Saitama. One is the railway museum which used to be in Akihabara and the other was the John Lennon Museum.
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Osterstraße Street Festival
Street festival season in Hamburg usually opens with the festival in the Osterstraße. Plenty of things to eat, music to enjoy and places to shop.
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Hamburg in Snow
It doesn’t snow often in Hamburg in December, but this month has been exceptional and I’m happy to be in Germany at this time.
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Revisiting my school: Long long time ago…
…I went to high school here in Hamburg. It’s the Heinrich Hertz School (HHS), named after the famous physicist. I
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Hamburger Kunsthalle
Originally we thought about driving to Berlin but I had to finish a few articles so we decided on the Hamburger Kunsthalle instead, an art museum situated near Hamburg’s central station.
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Hamburger Dom
The Hamburger Dom is a funfair held three times each year on Heiligengeistfeld next to the subway station Feldstraße. It is one of the biggest fair in Germany and lasts about one month each time.
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Japanese Summer Festival 2006 in Hamburg
The Japanese Summer Festival (Japanisches Sommerfest) is a two-day festival held by the Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg (Museum of Ethnology).
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Snowy days – Winter in Hamburg
Today was a very snowy day and I took a few pictures of Hamburg in snow. I photographed around my flat and the town hall.
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