Miniature to Eisensteins

Hamburg is beautiful, safe, nice people, great transportation.  We easily got around the city with no car. Can you imagine that! I am really impressed and the people are so helpful and happy. Found the ferry with no problem and headed off to Hafer City, this is the old warehouse district that has a lot to see. Ferried  past the new concert hall which is under construction and ginormous, they had a model of what it will look like when it is done and sound like.  You put your ear up to a speaker and can hear Opera to Beethoven , but you had to be tall to hear Stravinsky, Kirk picked me up.  You then stuck your head through a hole in the ceiling and you could see the complete concert hall in miniature, cool!

Lots of canals and ferries everywhere,  Our next stop was the Minatura Wonderland.  One of the larger warehouses converted two floors into train city, different countries are represented from Hamburg to Switzerland, Sweden,and US, Las Vegas of all places, but they had the Grand Canyon and Mount Rushmore also. They had an airport that had planes taking off and landing, and like I said trains everywhere. Pretty cool.

Our next stop was the Chille house which is a triangular brick office building, amazing architecture,  then to a Chocolate Factory, and wifi at a Starbucks, housed in a building older than time with an ancient water statue in front of a beautiful building.  I posted loads of pictures on Facebook, to hard to post them here.

We saw the Rathaus, big building in central Hamburg then went off to meet up with Daniela and Ian. They have a beautiful place over looking Elbe River, beautiful apartment. saw container ships to party barges cruising the river. 

Had dinner at Cafe Eisenstein, near Altona, in an old propeller factory, the old walls still showing, unique architecture, had the old furnace still standing in middle of restaurant. Food was delicious, goat cheese pizza, tuna, pesto pizza, creamy pea soup, mixed greens salad.   
Absolutely delicious, water still more expensive than beer!

Cobblestones everywhere, nice walk back to train station, it is light out so late you loose track of time. Got home by midnight and feel into bed. 

Really enjoying Hamburg. The train is a lot like Paris Metro,  the people are much nicer and very helpful. The city has not been run over by tourist so are very accommodating to guests. 

So far from all the cities I have visited in Europe my favorites are Torino and Hamburg. I like the people!