Today berthed at Altona (Fishmarket) Cruise Terminal in Hamburg, Germany. Seems like a better terminal than on our previous visit when we were berthed on the other side of the river a long way from everything. So, we went ashore and walked only 100 yards from the ship to catch the ferry boat, very convenient and very reasonably priced. Rode the ferry for two stops up to Londungsbruken, a very pleasant ride, always looking for opportunities to fit in a boat trip. This stop is the central location for all the ferries, boat trips, hop-on-hop-off busses, trains, etc..
Hamburg Skyline
Walked across the road and just up the hill a bit to get to the Church of St Michael, seriously busy here, quick look into the church then I went out to lobby to check on access to the tower for “the best viewpoint in town”, not good timing, couldn’t get back into church to tell Yvonne as the Noon Mass was just starting and the staff were closing the door, bit of a shambles, surrendered to fate and bought my ticket for the tower and took the trip up for pictures and views, excellent. No sign of Yvonne so returned down to discuss what went wrong, not in too much trouble!
View over the Town and Port
Planned to follow up with a visit to St Nickolas Memorial, a ruined church consisting of just one wall and the tower, but tower shrouded in scaffolding so didn’t bother. Instead continued down to the old warehouse district and Hafen City. Lots of historic warehouse converted to housing and much redevelopment with modern innovative designed buildings.
Took another ferry back to Londungsbruken to check out the Old Elbe Tunnel, currently under refurbishment, but still open to pedestrians. Very smart and apparently very busy and popular, didn’t actually cross the river so back up to catch the ferry back to the ship. Very slow getting through security to get back on the ship, the port could only find a couple of staff to deal with hundreds of cruise passengers, very poor.
Took advantage of quiet afternoon in our stateroom to watch a movie, “A Royal Night Out”, quite amusing, not too bad. Had a shot at the afternoon trivia , no prize, again.
This evening’s entertainment in the Theatre was The Fly Boys singing some fairly modern songs in the style of the 1940’s and some similar, sang really well, excellent voices well presented, not so sure about the actual songs, ah well still very enjoyable.
Little light supper in the buffet to close the day.
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