To be honest, you’d need a month in Hamburg just to see the bare minimum! No wonder that our 5 days were way too short. So today we tried to squeeze in a few more highlight…..
At 6am we went to the Fischmarket (which is open every Sunday from 5-9am): big, crowded, lots of fun and totally worth getting up so early! Besides booths with fish, all kinds of fish, fish in every shape and size and taste, there were also the usual farmers market booths, but here they sold veggies or fruit in baskets for 10 or 15 Euro (basket + content)Ted, slowly but steadily transforming into a Nordic fisherman – head to toe dressed in navy!After the Fishmarket we went through the Elbtunnel. It was built 1907-1911 as a tunnel underneath the Elbe River, where cars could take an elevator down, drive underneath the water and up with an elevator on the other side! (Today it’s only open for pedestrians and bikes)426 meters long with beautiful artwork on both sides and millions of tiles on the ceiling and walls!Great view to the Elbphilharmonie from the other side of the ElbtunnelWalking to our next adventure, we discovered this gem!It looks so realistic; you can only tell by stepping onto the rug that it’s made of stones 🧐The Spice museum was our next stop – Anja felt like in paradise!Artwork made of spices, like this palm tree made of vanilla beans or a sailboat made of cloves were displayedalong with tools and equipment for sorting, grinding, packing, etc. this was very interesting!View from the SpicemuseumAnd because we were not too tired yet, we took a tour at the Chocolate Museum, where we made our own chocolate bar, we tasted cocoa nibs, chocolate powder, beans, molten and pressed chocolate. It was like heaven!Chocolate makes you happy!Lots of equipment from the 1920s and 1930s are used to show the individual steps for production. Very informative and fun! As we went on, the kids in our tour group got more and more hyper – just like anywhere in the world 😇…and another beautiful example of the Speicherstadt on our walk back.
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I love that underwater tunnel for bikes and that mosaic carpet! I love mosaic tile! I think Ted is dressed head to toe in navy because he knows blue is your favorite color
I love that underwater tunnel for bikes and that mosaic carpet! I love mosaic tile! I think Ted is dressed head to toe in navy because he knows blue is your favorite color
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