Hamburg, Germany Travel News

FAMOUS for its sex shops and strip joints, Hamburg in northern Germany has long been a port of call for stag parties and lads' getaways.

Love music and travel? Then Hamburg is the perfect city for you. Laura Wurzal enjoyed a visit and was particularly enthralled by a tribute to The Beatles IT'S very early on a Sunday morning, and the Fish Auction Hall in the north German city of Hamburg is rocking to the rafters as the band belts out crowd pleasers by Johnny Cash and The Kinks.

Scouse icon John Lennon once said: "I was born in Liverpool, but I grew up in Hamburg." It's taken the northern German city a long time to wake up to the opportunity offered by the city's role in the history of The Beatles.

Pedro Cabrita Reis , "Les dormeurs", 2009. Site specific. Fluorescent lights and electrical cables © Pedro Cabrita Reis.

There is no reasoning with German bouncers. This is generally true, regardless of nationality, but a velvet rope is especially imposing when combined with a language barrier and a side of Hamburg beef.

A useful list for those who are are visiting Hamburg for the first time and wondering what to see, where to eat, etc.

Living a long life in the spectral borderlands has its rewards. Since you're basically invisible to most of the rest of the world, you're free to test your inspirations and then transform them into art, music or political energy - and do it any way you prefer.

Fab Four clones from Down Under bring Beatlemania On Tour to the Cowichan Theatre Sunday.

The top 6 things to do in Hamburg for free 1) Indoo Spielwerk Northern Germany's biggest Indoor-Adventure Park for the whole family.

Just the drive from the airport to our hotel -- past lush green parks, over canals, along tree-lined streets boasting a variety of architectural styles -- was enough to know we hadn't given ourselves nearly enough time to explore Hamburg.

Back in the spring, I spent a month in northern Europe and Scandinavia checking out the great cities of Copenhagen, Malmo, Gothenberg, and Hamburg.

Win flights to Hamburg with Lufthansa THIS week's competition is a must for any Beatles fans out there.

Win flights to Hamburg with Lufthansa THIS week's competition is a must for any Beatles fans out there.

Win flights to Hamburg with Lufthansa THIS week's competition is a must for any Beatles fans out there.

Forty years since The Beatles break-up, Jennifer rodger gets back to Hamburg and where it all started - in a strip club It's been a hard day's night, and many might feel a tad uncomfortable mingling with dozens of hard-core goths and gyrating pole dancers.

Forty years since The Beatles break-up, Jennifer rodger gets back to Hamburg and where it all started - in a strip club It's been a hard day's night, and many might feel a tad uncomfortable mingling with dozens of hard-core goths and gyrating pole dancers.

I don't know if this represents what a building would dream about if it could but projections like this are not only amazing art pieces but have a massive future in advertising.

Forget visiting the art gallery - perhaps the most striking part of Germany's Kunsthalle Hamburg is the outside of the Gallerie de Gegenwart building, which at night projects 3D visuals onto its walls.

Five years ago JA rn Wiemann, a pharmaceutical company manager, decided it was time to buy his own apartment.

HAMBURG, Germany, May 28 /CNW/ - Indra, Top Ten, Kaiserkeller, Star Club - these were the clubs on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg/Germany, where in the early 1960s the young and just-formed Beatles honed their skills onstage daily, for up to nine hours at a time, and from where they went on to conquer the world.