Part of the Central station





Never seen so many Smart cars as I saw this day in Hamburg, even the police is using them:






Shopping street, only taxis and busses allowed.

















approaching the town hall


















Binnenalster





Monument for the dead soldiers of WWI (40.000 sons of the city gave their life for you)


















The Alsterarkaden were built in 1843 by Alexis de Chateauneuf


































Unusually warm and sunny for april. Sometimes there are summers with only a few days +30°C.













You cann see the St. Michaelis Church in the back























































State Opera of Hamburg ont he left (you'll see the place where the spectacular new opera is going to be in PartII)














































There are two big canals (Fleets) going trought the business district












































Speicherstadt














View from the tower of St. Michaelsi or Michel as the Hamburger call it









You can see the Millerntor on the left side, stadium of famous football club FC St. Pauli

and the massive WW2 bunkeron the right





St. Pauli Landungsbrücken (piers), where the old sailing vessels used to dock






















You can see the red bricks of the Speicherstadt (Bonded Warehouse District which was built between 1883 and 1928 as a Free Port).

http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/1367/















































walking to the piers






























































The huge Hafenscity project.


Read more here:

http://www.hafencity.com/





This will be the base for the new fantastic new Elbe Philharmonic Hall

read more here: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07109/778486-386.stm



































































And that's why there are so many Smart cars:






















Chilehaus (1923, designed by Fritz Höger)