Timmendorfer Strand and Hamburg
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smallhobbitRight, I'm back and have successfully done battle with the photos on my phone to download them to my computer. If there hadn't been so many I'd have done it the usual way and emailed them to myself. Scrap that, now emailed pictures to myself. I hate technology!
Anyway, we'd stayed in a town called Timmendorfer Strand, which is on the Baltic coast. To get there from Gloucester you travel via Calais, into Belgium (overnight stop in Liege) and through Germany, waving to Denmark, which is sort of on the left, as you go past. Timmendorfer Strand is where rich people go for their summer holidays, but outside the season it's very quiet (the bar we visited had last orders at 10pm) and survives principally on conferences. Here's a couple of pictures of the sunset taking from the hotel on the first night.
Our first day we took a boat trip round the bay, getting off at Niendorf Harbour and walking back. It was a long way - further than we thought.
The harbour was pretty though.
Our second day we had a trip to Hamburg. There was a guide who took us on a tour of the city (we stayed on the coach), which was quite interesting, although I was less interested in the views of the rich people's houses and would have liked to learn more about the history of the city.
A couple of pictures of the exterior of the Rathaus. In the afternoon SM and I had a quick look at one of the churches and wandered through a few of the small streets by the canal network. We ended up going up the tower of St Nikolai, which had excellent views of the whole of the city. The church itself, like a lot of the city had been flattened by the Allied bombing attacks in WWII. In there crypt there was an excellent museum display showing the effects of major aerial bombing not only on Hamburg, but also Coventry and Warsaw. This was a recurring theme throughout the holiday.
That evening we found one of the few bars which were open and then wandered along the pier in the dark. The picture shows our hotel by night.
Anyway, we'd stayed in a town called Timmendorfer Strand, which is on the Baltic coast. To get there from Gloucester you travel via Calais, into Belgium (overnight stop in Liege) and through Germany, waving to Denmark, which is sort of on the left, as you go past. Timmendorfer Strand is where rich people go for their summer holidays, but outside the season it's very quiet (the bar we visited had last orders at 10pm) and survives principally on conferences. Here's a couple of pictures of the sunset taking from the hotel on the first night.
Our first day we took a boat trip round the bay, getting off at Niendorf Harbour and walking back. It was a long way - further than we thought.
The harbour was pretty though.Our second day we had a trip to Hamburg. There was a guide who took us on a tour of the city (we stayed on the coach), which was quite interesting, although I was less interested in the views of the rich people's houses and would have liked to learn more about the history of the city.
A couple of pictures of the exterior of the Rathaus. In the afternoon SM and I had a quick look at one of the churches and wandered through a few of the small streets by the canal network. We ended up going up the tower of St Nikolai, which had excellent views of the whole of the city. The church itself, like a lot of the city had been flattened by the Allied bombing attacks in WWII. In there crypt there was an excellent museum display showing the effects of major aerial bombing not only on Hamburg, but also Coventry and Warsaw. This was a recurring theme throughout the holiday.
That evening we found one of the few bars which were open and then wandered along the pier in the dark. The picture shows our hotel by night.
