Hamburg, Germany

Hamburg, Germany:  home of the original hamburger, business, fish market, beer, hookers, and miniature trains.

Isn't it about time the market had a product named "Fahrtwind"?

Genevieve LOVED the public parks

Recreation of a19th-century sailor's pub in the Maritime Museum

A Hamburg stolperstein (stumbling block) to commemorate the individual victims of Nazism.

Ratsherrn was my favorite.

Vivi, Ollie, Jazzy in front of the Hamburg train station

The author of this graffiti, seen all over the city, probably has no idea how true this is:  the Bible is a fairy tale.

We met the original sand man

Astra and Duckstein beer, two Hamburg brews.  Note the logo on the left:  that's a direct reference to the sailors and the hookers.

The key to business success:  location, location, location.  Hamburg's Reeperbahn is one of Europe's largest (world's largest?) red light districts, thanks to being one of the largest shipping ports in Europe.

The Sunday morning fish market on the waterfront ends by 10AM, because that was the original time in historical tradition that everyone had to be at Sunday mass.

Vivi and Adler go full out on the most awesome playground ever

Two hepcats before a night of clubbing.  Be forewarned America:  Chesterton has the moves like Jagger.

My favourite childhood airline at the Miniatur Wunderland, one of the best reasons to go visit Hamburg.  The train layout gets bigger and better every single year.  

One of only about a thousand pictures I took showing incredible verisimilitude in the art of model building:  selective compression at its German-engineered finest.

Ollie gets small

Adler disappears in a large chair

Vivi sits like a princess

Jasper nearly fills his

The original hamburger frikadelle:  uninspiring but necessary when visiting Hamburg.

The wall separating the beginning of the great Hamburg fire of 1842

Zum Brandfang:  Where the fire began.

Fritz Kola:  the local soda

Mark McAdam, a former student, spent a day showing me the sites and favorite areas of his in Hamburg.  This is the view from his apartment roof patio.