Fast cars – quite colorful Today we qualified Hamburg Guides, together with other Hamburg tour guides, had the opportunity to visit the new exhibition at the Prototype Museum in Hamburg’s HafenCity under the expert guidance of Ms. Carolin Peiseler. Here are some impressions. Visit the museum with the exhibition for those interested in technology and […]

Office buildings and their staircases are something special Anyone who has ever been in one of the beautiful stairwells in the Kontorhaus district (Sprinkenhof, Chilehaus, Meßberghaus) or on Steinhöft and Deichstraße (Sloman-Haus, Stella-Haus, Columbia-Haus) has probably noticed this. Even the paternosters still work in some of these beautiful contemporary witnesses from the late 19th or […]

Guided tours of the Elbphilharmonie will soon be a reality After a lot of bad blood, the Elbphilharmonie can finally be enjoyed next year. The plaza, hotel and restaurants (as well as a souvenir store with various souvenirs of the Elphi and music literature) are currently in operation and more than 20,000 people have already […]

Like any good tour guide or city guide, as a qualified and certified tour guide for Hamburg and the surrounding area, I also attend various training courses in the off-season. Last week I went to Altona’s former borders and got some exciting new information. Hamburg’s and Altona’s histories are closely intertwined. You can still see […]

New training courses for certified tour guides In the last week of September, I took part in the German Historians’ Day, which was organized in Hamburg by the Association for Hamburg History, among others. Various lectures, excursions and workshops were offered under the motto “Questions of Faith”, which I took advantage of for my own […]

Cycling tour in the Hamburg region by Reiseplus Four days, almost 200 kilometers. That’s how I summed up the Reiseplus guided cycle tour that I led last week. It started with an evening city tour of Hamburg, where I was able to get to know the guests better. The first full-day excursion took us through […]

From July 24 to 29, 2016, I was with a tour group from the Kiel-based coach company AK Touristik on the road in England. In consistently good weather we visited the impressive university city of Cambridge with its countless colleges and got a taste of royalty at Windsor Castle, Queen Elizabeth’s retreat, we explored England’s former capital, Winchester, […]