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, […]

Guided tour of the Eutin State Garden Show The weather was beautiful and I was able to complete my first assignment as a certified tour guide at the State Garden Show in Eutin. How beautifully everything is blooming there now! Together with the Eutin Castle Park, this garden show is something special and well worth […]