Staircase up and Staircase down in the Hübner Haus The Hübner-Haus at the corner Neuer Wall/Poststraße in Hamburg is definitely worth a detour as it accommodates at mini museum of the former Café Hübner, a café which served especially for the ladies of Hamburg’s high society between 1884 and 1961. At the beginning, this was […]

Staircase up – staircase down in the Mönckeberghaus After the first modern staircase last week, this week, I’ll dedicate my blog to a more historical office building and its staircase: The Mönckeberghaus. As the name suggests, it is located on Mönckebergstraße in the middle of the city centre and yet is somewhat inconspicuously hidden in the second row bhind the Mönckeberg fountain. […]

Villas, mansiones y tranquilidad en Pöseldorf – Hamburgo Ay, qué interesante es el barrio de Pöseldorf en Hamburgo, Alemania. Tenemos allí tantas villas y mansiones construidas a finales del siglo 19 o a principios del siglo 20. Está limpio y tranquilo y detrás de los edificios siempre se esconden pequenas sorpresas. Como el Yu Garden […]

After having had a couple of bad years Hamburg’s Philharmonic Hall is now ready to be enjoyed from January on. At the moment plaza, hotel and restaurants (as well as souvenir shops offering numerous souvenirs of „Elphi“ and a chosen variety of music literature) are up and running. More than 20.000 people visited the free […]

I’ve just returned from a training in Lübeck, including the Hanse Museum, which our club Hamburg Guides had organised with 30 old and future tourist guides eager to learn new things. As a qualified tourist guide I do not offer city tours only in Hamburg but also in North Germany, for example in Lübeck. After […]