Germany

Hamburg!

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Today at 7am we arrived in the city of Hamburg. Disembarking was very easy and pleasant, the luggage was already waiting for us; so we’re the taxis right outside the terminal. You think disembarking 2000 would be chaotic, but no! We got a time slot (9.50am) when to leave, so we had plenty of time for a last delicious breakfast. We packed and left and arrived at our Airbnb in the “Speicherstadt” around 11am. Easy cheesy everything!

Typical house in the „Speicherstadt“ (Storagetown). Those houses are from the 1600s, some as old as the 1300s. They have one entrance from the street, the backside of the house is facing the canal and has another entrance. Near the roof is a crane of some sort and on each floor is a big double entrance gate where the goods were brought in and out. Delivery by boat on the canal side, shipping out on the street side, hundred of those are along those many many canals in the Speicherstadt. Very unique and beautiful!
This is the inside of one of those old houses where we had lunch. The ceiling is very beautiful: handpainted beams above on the second story ceiling with information who build the house and when.

The Speicherstadt had a major fire that spread all over Hamburg in May 1842. The fire started at a house across the Street where we are at our Airbnb. A plaque on the wall of one of the houses declares that the fire started right there and destroyed almost all of medieval Hamburg including the St. Nikolas church where lots of people fled to in desperation…..

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