a restful sleep in the floating hotel. is ready for his tour of hamburg. welcome to my hamburg summer tour always pretty close to the water from the concert hall through the entertainment district to the beach and if you're going to. but first a tour off a former fishing boat built in one thousand nine hundred forty seven boat shows me his ship. that's messed up this is the belly of the ship here is where they kept the fish cool on ice. in fact as they are going leave the harbor sometimes or is it permanently mortier. oh no it's fully functional we can settle right now for spain for instance or wherever you want it was ok maybe another time today i want to check out hamburg.

but. it took a long time and became more expensive than expected but it seems to have paid off the concert hall has won many fans since its opening in two thousand and seventeen that makes it quite difficult to get concert tickets but a visit to the observation deck the plaza is free a great new balcony three hundred sixty degrees of pure hamburg. from both from russia or why are you up here at the other people money. they kiss is a landmark in hamburg and it's a place you have to visit if you have one income but this is a good as i heard it's very difficult to get tickets that means you just get in line and hope for the best and it wasn't. well this is exactly at six pm we'll go

to the box office and hope we get tickets so you know any tricks to get tickets just luck that's all that's all i'll give it a try i seem to be lucky. but if you there good luck. to you still one of the most famous districts of hamburg famous and well tourists here you will find pubs i think grand feeders a red light district and culture and all of it not far from the elder. son polly even has a small museum where you can find out what has shaped the district. because that poli was originally a border region between the danish city of and the hands city of hamburg residents here knew how to use this kind of free space dance halls and cheap entertainment have been a part of scientology since the seventeenth century. always

an image of prostitution and crime evolved over the years i think if you bring it up about how does that state exempt cali is in my constant flux i'd say the red light district image which now plays a role in many tourists perceptions as well as in marketing strategies. is very much influenced by the one nine hundred seventy s. and the one nine hundred eighty s. and i think i got to go on and lots of cliches emerge then. go and change hairdos and such. on survivor to nobody so with these cliches they try to attract tourists by saying we have a red light district we have gangsters that might be interesting to some people. think i think show we at the summit calmly museum don't think of ourselves and that we try to present everything in the development of the district and enable visitors to understand how certain myths were formed wish them to mutant some are just myths and. some are cliches. you can also take

a dip in hamburg's river after years of pollution the water quality of the elbow today is clean enough to swim in bathing in the elbow has a long tradition is specially during the nineteenth century. join a list and author has already written two books about it like many locals she's a fan of the river. vic what moves you to swing in the elba every day. fast you can tell nice to everybody was like you know it's a great pleasure it's just wonderful for my now the elderlies at my doorstep i can go in when i want to i can do what i want to ever almost everything. and it's a centuries experience the water in the flowing and streaming rising and falling water i enjoyed immensely. would be always were here in the open there are certainly other people to do you think this is

a new trend. the custom of swimming in the l. the return of medicare since german reunification many so its treatment plants have been built in eastern germany and the wood has become much cleaner on the fields almost for twenty or thirty years it was really. i think the idea of having nature at your doorstep on the outskirts of a city with a population of millions and being able to use it should be revived. and then more and more people will see how lovely it is america should assist vendors and the beaches in hamburg have lots of visitors and at weekends in the summer and during school holidays there are many tourists and most know that the water epson flows and avoid lying too close to the edge when the water is rising as it makes so now about all of us are. of course i have to try this now my first swim in the obit just the finke on such

a beautiful summer day. there's hardly a better place to end the day on the album than this place to compel the bar. it's famous in hamburg. a wonderful view. without the that's impossible the river is hamburg lifeline so on the one hand it's a useful traffic route and on the other it's in a way of tranquility so no wonder the el that fascinates so many people including

myself. our final destination today is braman which is also the smallest of germany's sixteen states. britain is famous the world over thanks to a grimm's fairy tale which features a donkey a dog a cat and a rooster. in the cold clearly decided to spend the day in the northern german hanseatic city. those are the tell musicians and beloved characters from the grimm fairy tale of the same name stopping by on to the city to see them has become a must and touching the four legs is supposed to be good luck i want to find out about the fairy tale let's see if some locals can help me. ken

do you know the story of the bremen town musicians. are you proud forgotten to bremen with me and you could become a town musician. they were animals that were treated badly so they left home and then from souls i'm forced. they settled down in a house where they were robbers and frighten the robbers away. they stayed in this robber stand in the woods us that's because they found a life without hardship in the liberty and. both rose. so the freeman town musicians never made it to braman at least not in the fairy tale but they're statue has stood in front of the city hall since nineteen fifty three. that's right when it's full of stories like that today i'm going to discover that. my search begins at the market square.

this is where i stumble upon my next story this statue is called the roll and legend has it that as long as he's here the city will remain free and independent. the statue is a us go world heritage site just like this story city hall across the street. that is why i'm going to take a clip inside this remarkable building. i don't. think are you my guide and we have a day. just in here now in the upper hall one of the most beautiful ceremonial venues in germany and the town hall itself is the oldest in europe that still in its original state by why wasn't this room built what did you see a war one of the looks on from. the old town hall is actually

a medieval trading center with a wine cellar below it and a covered marketplace and a pair in assembly room the room also serves as a quarter of the mayor used to be the chief justice. is on the spot behind these model ships below the ceiling especially impressive their four hundred to five hundred years old on and their models like those built by the huns yogic league before the ships were built for real in the fall and. what's the hands out a cleek. once you had a clique was a confederation of towns that promised each other for protection and aid in trade and it was quite a large area it stretched as far as no growth in russia norway down to belgium and bremen was a member of the league. and now important was it for bremen to be a house ethics city. we still call ourselves the huns the arctic city of bremen although the leak ended three hundred years ago whatever but the term sounds good

many associate it with honesty straightforwardness and reliability and that's why we still use it and that's why i tell. my story searching quest here in braman takes me to the cathedral square they say this is where i'll find the so-called big stone and conspicuous cobblestone with a very interesting history. this right here is a site of remembrance for the crimes of geisha got free back in the nineteenth century she poisoned fifteen people and this is the spot where she was beheaded in eighteen thirty one and still today the local spit on this very stone in order to express their disgust with the killings of keisha got free. the spitting stone lies at the foot of the ancient cathedral it's almost one thousand years old. and apparently it's home to a little church bells made of stone. either i'm bad looking or

very good at hiding. pastor ingrid vigil will surely be able to help me can i bother you for a second. she leads me to the vestry. so here we have the church mouse it's tiny just like a real mouse i thought some so what's the deal with a mouse and duck it's what your various store. the most common one is that in the past the artisans who worked on the churches were supposed to look at them very closely when they travelled through the country and if they could say where this church mouse was here in the cathedral the master builder knew that they'd looked at it properly. as a lesson so it was to trick the workers to stay an artist. i've arrived at such a structure in the middle ages it was an important connection route between the

market square and the river vai's up the street got its name from the coopers but in germany who used to live here. the street as a whole is listed the red brick architecture is typical for braman and on but just toss it is perfectly preserved. in this courtyard you'll find the fountain of the seven lazy brothers and of course there's a story behind that to. the seven lazy brothers were the sons of a local farmer who weren't exactly known for their hard work they couldn't find a job here in bremen so they went out into the world they are they acquired extensive knowledge and experience upon their return they built drainage ditches for their father's fields the locals dismissed their ideas and accused them of simply being too lazy to work the muddy grounds today of course we know that they

were lazy at all they were just a little ahead of the times. but yes just a is a street that stimulates the senses your taste buds your eyes and your ears. at the top of every hour thirty porcelain bells play traditional and modern tunes and up in the tower you'll also find a visual display to go with the songs. no jury. me would be complete without some local fare on the menu today a typical northern dish that of course comes with quite a history. the rathskeller as head chef i call clear nuff ski presents it to me. by one on earth is this going to take the love coast that much china ok ok just on

time the ingredients want to be. flowery potatoes and consulted beef brisket and pickles wasn't and watching the story behind it is a pretty traditional dishes around here right now that. i was involved in the past when sailors were at sea for a long time that was enough for the meat had to be preserved that's why there salt the beef and. the mice and because most of them were probably toothless due to miss fights scurvy or whatever when everything was mashed up and so they didn't have to chew it ok but i enjoy thanks shakes i can't wait. for all that was surprisingly delicious a perfect finish for my tour around friends and i've learned to live and tasted a lot.