Germany

Hamburg in Winter – What to Do, Where to Go, and How Cold Is It?!

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Visiting Hamburg in winter is not top of most people’s to-do lists. Hamburg may be the second-largest city in Germany, but many travellers looking for winter city breaks tend to forgo Hamburg in favour of cities like Berlin or Munich, leading to Hamburg getting overlooked. However, after recently visiting Hamburg in December, I can promise …

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Santa Pauli – The Hamburg Christmas Market with a Naughty Twist

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Smack bang in the centre of Hamburg’s infamous red light district lies St Pauli, the Christmas Market with a difference. Situated on the Reeperbahn, also known as Hamburg’s ‘mile of sin,’ the Santa Pauli ‘XXXmas’ Market is a Christmas Market dedicated to all things sensual, and in 2023, after talking about it for years, I …

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Reeperbahn Festival Hamburg – Survival Guide for First-Timers

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  When I was invited to visit Hamburg for the annual Reeperbahn Festival this September, I could barely contain my excitement. Not only do I love exploring cities that usually fall under people’s radars, but it had been so long since I’d been to a music festival – in fact, the last one I attended was Manchester’s Parklife all …

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