Monday, August 15, 2016

Hamburg: King of the Hanseatic League

If Lubeck is the Queen of the Hanseatic then Hamburg must be the King..or the Emperor. We enjoyed our day. It started with a little shopping and a visit to St Petri church.. We met Charlotte at the Rathaus and had an English guided tour. A stunning building.


                                       The exterior of the building.


                                                                      The Grand stairway.


                                               The ceilings. Note the wallpaper and art.


                                        They had murals of trading partners of the hanseatics


One of the Grand rooms


The famous Banquet room.  


Our lunch venue. A crepe restaurant on the waterfront.


Charlotte and Rob


Gail and Rob


The Elbphilharmonie building from the other side of the River





This is the fountain at the Town Hall that we saw this morning

Our afternoon walk started with a visit to the new Concert Hall and Opera house. Called Elbphilharmonie. This shot was actually taken later when we crossed the River Elbe by tunnel. It was rather odd to walk so far under the river. Like being able to walk the Sydney harbour tunnel any day.
We planned lots of other visits but ended up taking the S Bahn back to the hotel.

 We did go out again , The first to a Supermarket and for a drink and the second back to the Brodersen Restaurant for another stunning meal. It has to be good to get us back a second time when there are others to try.  We ate  dishes with Pfifferlinge mushroom  only found in July and August.





1 comment:

Miss Di said...

Did the mushrooms make you dream strange dreams?
What an interesting looking opera house. Hope the acoustics are better than ours!