15 July 2014 Hamburg Day trip to Bremen 24C Cloudy with sunny breaks Today we took a day trip to Bremen, it was just 55 mins by train on the ICE from Hamburg and in no time at all we had arrived. I had booked a walking tour in English at 2pm so we spent the morning having a look around at the Town Hall and Market Place in the centre of town and then took a look at the Waser River and visited St Martins Church. I then hit the shops which are very central in...

14 July 2014 Hamburg 22C Cool & Cloudy Surprisingly we got a good night's sleep considering Germany won the World Cup, a few horns honking, some fireworks exploding and it seemed to be business as usual today. We took the hop-on, hop-off bus this morning which had a commentary in English via ear phones. It was very comprehensive and we now know a lot more about Hamburg. We covered an extensive area some of which we had not reached on foot, but a lo...

13 July 2014 Hamburg 20C Cool & Showers It's Sunday and we're up and off early to visit the Hamburg Fischmarkt. This is a market that begins at 5am and goes until 9.30am and is a must for all visitors and an institution for all residents of Hamburg. Unfortunately the weather was a bit damp and cool but that did not deter us from checking out a lot of the stalls and purchasing a couple of the local delicacies - fish sandwiches (Fischbrotchen for b...

12 July 2014 Hamburg 22C Sunny This morning we set off in a westerly direction towards the altstadt (old town) via the many canals that are a Hamburg feature. It's international triathlon weekend here and the triathlon was in full swing for the minor classes, over 50's, girls with baskets on their bikes and overweight men;s divisions. There were spectators and a drumming band we passed entertaining the competitors. As we walked by the canals we passed the larg...

10 & 11 July 2014 Brno – Hamburg 26C Warm Thursday 10th July is a travel day and we left Brno on the 9.30am train arriving in Hamburg at 7.45pm. The journey was comfortable but very long. We arrived in Hamburg and took the S Bahn to our apartment and found we were in a lovely area with lots of restaurants - mainly Spanish and Portugese. For dinner, we settled on a Spanish restaurant with tapas for dinner and fortunately, one of the waiters spoke Eng...