5:48 PM
#DOM: Watching and being watched. The Hamburger Dom is the biggest public festival in Northern Germany and worth eating one’s way through. #fair #funfair #hamburgerdom #contaxg90 #hamburg
TOOTHBRUSH | Monday, May 29, 2023
3:39 PM
#TOOTHBRUSH: the #Hamburg @elbphilharmonie does look a bit like a toothbrush head, I concede to junior. A fine building, one day I would love to actually go to a concert there… #elbphilharmonie
SCHILLEROPER | Thursday, May 18, 2023
1:02 PM
#SCHILLEROPER: a surprise view as you walk out of the park, initially looks like an old gas works, but surrounded closely by flats, and then you realize it is nothing of the sort. It’s the steel skeletal remains of the Schiller Opera house, perhaps for Friedrich Schiller as the Globe was to Shakespeare. Bombed in WW2 but seemingly still in service, a fire pulled the curtains down for good. It could well be the only remaining structure of its kind left in Germany but there are no plans to return it to active duty. Hampered by paperwork, permits and property rights, the plans are to create a social housing project with a rotunda in the courtyard. A significant part of St Pauli deserves better than this. #hamburg #stpauli #schilleroperhamburg
AUTUMN | Thursday, October 20, 2022
12:49 AM
#AUTUMN: #Hamburg is quite beautiful, instead of the many parks we have in London, the entire city is lined with trees. The parkland at #PlantenUnBlomen is particularly well-kept, the Japanese garden only augmenting it rather than being a highlight. The (largest in Germany) open-air ice rink should be coming soon, and then there’s a bit of a fight to turn it back into a giant #rollerskate park from April to September, as the new surface isn’t skate-friendly… #Germany #park #leicapower #summilux
