Hamburg, the second largest city in Germany, is home to Europe's second busiest port, and interestingly, is located on a river (the River Elbe). Given our goal of just exploring the city, we stayed downtown, as central as possible (near
It's hard to believe so much of the history of Berlin is so recent. It's a city that you can step through the past and attempt to imagine what it was like. Part of this is done through the museums -