I came to the habor by exident, which turned out to be a good day. It was Cruise Days, which is that several cruise ship come to Hamburg over some days and that is used to party. A friend and me ended up to be on a bark unreleated to those Cruise Days.

keywords: Queen Mary 2, River Side Empire

Gallery | Map | More Habor Photos | 818th Birthday | 819th Birthday | Photographer | Comments | More ...

Hamburg's habour is 819 years old soo. The birthday party was the world`s biggest Port Festival. The party was a super large vanity fair with many different bands, food, roller coaster, fireworks, air shows and water events like the tug boat ballet. Many of the visiting ships were large sail ships and they were open for visitors.

See photos form the departure parade in the gallery.

keywords: 819-ter Hafengeburtstag, 819ter Hamburger Hafengeburtstag, 819th habor birthday

Gallery | Map | More Habor Photos | 818th Birthday | Photographer | Comments

Zollenspieker is a place in Hamburg which should not only be vistied on Mother's day and in Spring, but any time one needs to get out of the city hazzle.

Gallery | Map | Photographer | Comments

Finally after many many years I got back to this park. Hamburg has many parks, but this is one of the more impressive ones and a must if you come to see this city.

Gallery | Map | Photographer | Comments

Spring in Hamburg means the colors are coming back. Check out and get some impressions of this beautiful city.

Gallery | Photographer | Comments

Hamburg's Michel - St. Michaelis Church. Historically an important church to Hamburg which also offers a spectacular view over Hamburg. This church is the resting place of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.

This is another landmark offering a spectacular view over Hamburg. See some photos in our gallery.

Gallery | Map | Photographer | Comments

Hamburg is a place where old and new comes together. It has had times of success and times it and its people had to suffer. The remaining ruin of St. Nikolai church became a WW2 memorial after "Operation Gomorrha" and many more aerial attacks, which had brought firestorms and destruction to Hamburg.

This place offers a spectacular view over Hamburg. See some photos in our gallery.

Gallery | Map | Photographer | Comments

Another marathon with over 23000 more people are famous as they all deserve the respect for participating in the annual Hamburg Marathon. Seeing the marathon life was an amazing experience. The mood in the crowed and the interaction of runners with bystanders made this an enjoyable event.

Gallery | Photographer | Comments

Spring in Hamburg means the colors are coming back. Check out and get some impressions.

Gallery | Photographer | Comments

Ristorante Farinelli da Franco is the place to go in Hamburg/Germany. You are looking for fine italian cousine, one or more good glasses of wine and perfect service in perfect italian ambiente, go there.

In addition to meeting famous or just nice people you can enjoy a bit of fine art in the monthly changing exhibition.

Get an idea about how it can be for special events in the New Years Party Gallery

Website | Photographer | Comments

A bit late, but still I wanted to give you a little impression of Hamburg during the Christmas time with ist many special markets and decoration.

Gallery | Photographer | Comments

See my sisters exhibition of her paintings at the famous restaurant Farinelli da Franco in Hamburg/Germany. Enjoy a bit of art while dining fine italian cousine and a nice glass of wine. Also visit her website for some more Paintings.

Sehen Sie Malereien meiner Schwester in Orginal im Restaurant Farinelli da Franco. Geniessen Sie ein bischen Kunst bei einem feinen italienischen Essen und einem schoenen Glas Wein. Einen Vorgeschmack auf Gitta's Bilder erhalten Sie auf der Webseite www.GKade.com

NOTE: Exhibition closed. A vernissage will be held soon with new and yet unseen paintings.

www.GKade.com | Farinelli da Franco | Comments

Get a taste of beautiful Norway. I was there many times and still have not enough of it. I got a ton of photos, but it takes time to sort them out. See some in the Gallery and make up your own opinion and come back, as I will add more.

Gallery | Photographer | Comments

Some impression of autumn in Hamburg.

I will add more photos as long as the autumn lasts and opportunities for shooting photos come up.

Map | Gallery | Photographer | Comments

Always good to have a camera at hand. Just stumbled upon this dance group Maracatu as I couldn't resist to follow the rhythm of Brazilian music. There was this group dancing dressed in colorful old costumes with such an expression, that I had to take some snaps. See for yourself in the gallery and learn more at their website.

Website | Gallery | Photographer | Comments

Some aviation history photos I took at the Hamburg Airport Days. Unfortunately one couldn't get too close or an unobstructed view of this spectacle. Too many fences for the security of course. Exiting still to see the development of this type of technique. From the JU 52 to the Super Constallation and lastly to the Airbus A380. Waiting for my first flight with this giant.

Gallery | Map | Photographer | Comments

Its always worth while to explore places in Hamburg. We rented a little boat and took a 90 minute tour, which is too short, but exciting still. The bst part in using a little boat is, you can explore places which are not reachable by other means.

Check out the results of this little exploration in the gallery

Gallery | Comments

Alstervergnügen is a big vanity fair which last 3 or 4 days. Live music, fireworks, food and a lot of fun is what you can expect there. There are many fireworks in Hamburg, but this, the first day, was one of a kind. I would say the most exiting I ever saw. Check photos inside the gallery.

Gallery | Photographer | Comments

Always good to have a camera at hand. I was invited to brunch and that happened to be right where Hamburg's Harley days took place. All the bikers with not only Harleys gathered for there round tour right in front of us. A kind of vanity fair where right across the road so we went there too. See some of our impressions in the gallery. (more pictures to come)

Gallery | Photographer | Comments

This was a bit unorganized. I didn't exactly know the location of the fireworks and so I was a bit far away. I couldn't use a tripod, so it was a bit of a problem to hold still. The fireworks was displayed with some weird breaks and at the end as everyone was away, one could hear some more bangs. I don't know if the fireworks went on after an obvious final. Hope you like the photos anyways so check out the gallery

Gallery | Photographer | Comments

Habor & Speicherstadt (Storage facility). Speicherstadt is the biggest historical storage facilities. It was and still is being used to store coffee, carpets etc.

Gallery | Map | Photographer | Comments

Hamburg's habour is 818 years old soo. The birthday party (May 11 to 13, 2007) was the world`s biggest Port Festival. The first rainy day counted already over 250000 visitors. The party was a super large vanity fair with many different bands, food, roller coaster, fireworks, air shows and water events like the tug boat ballet. Many of the visiting ships were large sail ships and they were open for visitors.

See photos form the party, the tug boat ballet, the fireworks and the departure parade in the gallery.

keywords: 818-ter Hafengeburtstag, 818ter Hamburger Hafengeburtstag, 818th habor birthday

Gallery | Map | Photographer | Comments

The century-old Speicherstadt is the world's oldest warehouse complex. It was built at the turn of the century in red bricks with gabled roofs and small towers.

Nowadays, the Speicherstadt not only houses warehouses for coffee, carpets etc. , but also a museum, theaters and even apartments.

The Speicherstadt can easily be explored by foot or from a nice boat tour through the channels.

Gallery | Map | Comments

I was back in the habor of Hamburg again and it was a few days before the habor birthday. I found the famous russian trainings ship MIR and one could go on it for a minor cover charge. I sure did this and took some pictures you may view in the gallery. The very young looking sailers on board where polite, but didn't speak much english so you and I rely on visual impressions..

All the signs on board were english so one knew where one could go and that was almost everywhere.

Gallery | Comments

Dom is a big vanity fair. It takes place four times a year for three weeks. Dom is the german word for cathedral and indeed was the Heiligengeistfeld the location where a cathedral stood. That was long ago thought

As youngsters we where fond of all the roller coasters and later of all the good and special food.

Gallery | Map | Photographer | Comments