The celebrations for Hamburg harbour birthday from another point of view, this year, namely from the water side, to avoid all the masses of people blocking just every way in the city.
I had booked a trip from Stade to Hamburg on the 1950 built museum-coaster "Greundiek".
The trip started early morning 07.30, at the old port of Stade, where there are also located a few other museumships.
More infos on the ship, in German:
http://www.landschaftsverband-stade.de/greundiek1.htmlBecause pictures say more than 1000 words, I won't use many words here. Enjoy the pictures, ask questions, ask google or any other search engine of your choice :-)
Ship gets turned, and down river Schwinge
looking back
River Elbe, and one of the new container giants just passing by
We were overtaken by few other ships, of course was useful to have the camera ready.
At noon, there was a parade of museum ships in Hamburg, for the celebrations of the harbour birthday, which we joined.
We didn't berth anywhere in Hamburg, but there was plenty to see in the different parts of the harbour.
We were back around 18.00 in Stade.
Was a perfect day trip, and the whole thing not expensive, at 35 Euros per person :-) Food and drinks were available onboard as well for a moderate price.
Of course the trip was also with "Sound" as here provided on the website by someone who has done a similar trip
www.hauisworld.de/Halbe.AVIwww.hauisworld.de/Halbe2.AVIwww.hauisworld.de/Umsteuern.AVIGreetings,
Cornelia