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The hotel is famous for Lieberman ’ s painting Terrasse im Restaurant Jacob of that very terrace . afternoon ’ s window shopping on Neuer Wall , which has lots of designer shops all on the one street .
During our last summer in Hamburg , we discovered Warnemünde , a holiday resort near Rostock which used to be in the former GDR . We compared it with Travemünde and enjoyed it just as much , though the car journey was about half an hour longer from the center of town .
Our third regular summer visitor was my sister , who had worked in the fashion industry and who liked to explore Hamburg ’ s many clothes shops . Jungfernstieg was a favorite destination , and we would stop at the Hummerstand Hanse-Viertel lobster bar in the shopping mall where a glass of prosecco and a lobster cocktail were a special treat . This provided fuel for an
All visitors enjoyed a Tuesday or Friday trip to the Isemarkt in Eppendorf , which is Europe ’ s longest open-air market . We took the U-Bahn to Hoheluftbrücke and walked all the way through the market to the other end and caught the U-Bahn home again from Eppendorfer Baum . The market is under the overhead railway track so you never get wet , and it is interesting at any time of year .
Hamburg is a city full of surprises and offers those who live here and their visitors lots of things to discover . It ’ s a great holiday destination and is much missed by my visitors and me .
Photo of Alster by Niklas Ohlrogge from Unsplash
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