{"id":119,"date":"2018-09-14T08:29:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T08:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travel.mawds.co.uk\/?p=119"},"modified":"2023-04-09T10:01:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T10:01:08","slug":"hamburg-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.mawds.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/09\/14\/hamburg-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamburg 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

After Minitur Wonderland I headed to the Rathaus. You can only see this with a tour. Sadly all the English tours were booked out. After a bit of indecision I decided to see how much I could follow on the German tour; it turned out about maybe 1\/2 to 3\/4, which was pleasantly surprising. I *think* the Rathaus survived a WW II bomb because, although hit, the bomb didn’t go off. The detonator is in a case in one of the rooms. The first Rathaus was burned down in 1847, and the new one took 11 years to build.<\/p>\n

The interiors were quite something; very grand and lots of gold.<\/p>\n

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After that I headed to the St Nikoli monument; this is a church that was destroyed in WW II. Only the tower remains, which you ascend via a lift. There was also a very sobering museum about the blitz’s effect on Hamburg and the use of forced concentration camp labour to clear the remains.<\/p>\n

Having been on the (unexpectedly extensive) tour of Coventry Cathedral with Rob a few years ago, it was rather poignient to see the Cathederal Crosses again.<\/p>\n

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After that I rounded off the day with a boat trip along the harbour, which was very pleasant.<\/p>\n

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I really liked Hamburg, and wish I’d had longer there. It didn’t feel as cool and hip as Berlin, but felt like a nice place.<\/p>\n

Writing these last three posts from the train to Prague, where I’ve got day or so before heading to Slovakia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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