Hamburg’s Philharmonic Hall is ready

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 stores offering numerous souvenirs of “Elphi” and a chosen variety of music literature) are up and running. More than 20.000 people visited the free […]

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Learning new things in Lübeck

I’ve just returned from a training in Lübeck, including the Hanse Museum, which our club Hamburg Guides had organized 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 […]

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American and Canadian farmers explore Hamburg

On Thursday, November 12th, 2015, I – as a qualified guide for Hamburg, had the pleasure to guide a harbor tour on English. My group consisted of 68 American and Canadian farmers. My board staff and I picked our guests up at 1.30 pm at Finkenwerder ferry quay with our boat “Hafen Hamburg”. We could […]

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An impressive/oppressive tour to Neuengamme

On Friday, July 17th, 2015, I started my tour with three individual tourists from Brazil and the USA to the former concentration camp in Neuengamme. “We read, heard and learned so much about this topic but we were never able to imagine what a camp looked like.” That was the reason why my guests had […]

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Finally a World Cultural Heritage Site

On July 5th, 2015 it was finally declared: the UNESCO “awarded” Hamburg with a World Cultural Heritage Site – the Warehouse District including the Kontorhaus District around the Chilehaus. At the end of the 19th century Hamburg was persuaded to join Bismarck’s newly found customs union – given that the city could still profit from […]

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Hamburgo con 14°C y lluvia

Ay, qué tiempo! Y eso para españoles que en este momento echan de menos su Madrid con 33°C. Bueno, como ya Nicolas sabe: No hay mal tiempo en Hamburgo, sino sólo ropa inadecuada. :-) Desde el lado opuesto del hotel de Lujo Hotel Atlantic empezamos a las 9 de la mañana nuestro recorrido en la […]

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With Eye Catcher through their neighborhood

What a success! I’ve already received a tour through my new website – incredible! The enterprise Eye Catcher from Hamburg wanted to do a two hours walk through Hamburg for their employees and friends. i was really keen on being with them. It is always a challenge to guide people from Hamburg through their own […]

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On tour with Hude’s “farmers’ wives”

Wednesday, 10.30 a.m. Alster quay 3 of ATG: A lively group of women in their best years disembarks the historic steamer St. Georg. We shortly get to know each other and start our tour with their bus, already awaiting us on Ballindamm. We drive around the Interior Alster in order to see from the “outside” […]

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Brasileños un poco alemanes en la ciudad

“Están seguros que basta una guía que habla español? Al final vienen de Brasil y normalmente hablan portugués.” – “Sí, estamos seguros. Muchos del grupo hablan alemán incluso. ” – ? Vale, bueno. Después de un malentendido en relación con el punto de encuentro empezamos nuestro tiempo en la estación principal en dirección de la […]

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