If you are ever in the Hamburg area, I highly recommend making a day trip with the Regional train up to Lübeck to visit the Hanse Museum.

It's one of the most beautifully designed museums on a specific topic like this I've ever seen (it's also very accessible). The entire museum and all of its stations are translated into various languages by scanning a card you set up at the beginning, including customizing your information experience with certain topics you're particularly interested in (I chose naval architecture, if memory serves).

There's a cute coffee shop or two right there in the complex too, and the entirety of Lübeck is a beautiful, cozy area too. Many of the old Hanseatic buildings still stand as they were relatively untouched by the war.

Another hour in the same direction on the train takes you to the Travemünde beaches which are also gorgeous. Makes for a good day trip.

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weinzierl 4 days ago | parent [-]

And if you always wanted to visit Hamburg you could easily combine it with attending Chaos Communication Congress. Two birds with one stone!

Other nerdy things to do there:

- Visit the container terminals of Europe's third busiest port

- Go to the Miniaturwunderland

- If you are into architecture or music: Elbphilharmonie

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hermitcrab 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

>Visit the container terminals of Europe's third busiest port

I wish more big industrial sites were set up for tourist access: mines, quarries, dams, ports etc. But maybe I'm just strange.

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LargoLasskhyfv 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What exactly do you mean by - Visit the container terminals of Europe's third busiest port ?

It's not like you could walk or ride around in there, and you shouldn't either.

It's all fenced, secured.

There are a few vantage points from where you can see into them, from afar, or the other side of the river, but that's it.

Drones? Uh Oh! Better not! Lingering around the fences to get a better view? Are you trying to find the smuggled drugs in some container? Trespassing into some empty quay which has recently been torn down, then elevated, now lying empty, to explore the growth of so called 'pioneer plants'? Better not, because signs say fine is 1000EUR. GULP!

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elcapitan 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> easily combine it with attending Chaos Communication Congress

"Easily" as in "26th to 30th of December, and tickets are available on three days in November if you can click fast enough" ;)

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weinzierl 4 days ago | parent [-]

I hear you but 26th to 30th of December is the perfect time, what else are going to do in this otherwise useless part of the year? Have family? Bring them, C3 is a pretty family friendly event.

Also, clicking fast is what we nerds excel at, right;-)

More seriously, when it comes to tickets my impression was that the post-pandemic years were pretty relaxed with only last year becoming more difficult again.

	▲	elcapitan 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I've been to C3 when it was in Berlin, then in Hamburg, then in Leipzig, but haven't been to it since it's back in Hamburg after the pandemic - before that it was always a bit of a fight with crashing ticket systems and other people's perl scripts :D So not necessarily my definition of something that you can easily just do on a spontaneous visit to Hamburg ;)

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willvarfar 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeap have heard from (grown up!) friends about https://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/ and always wanted to visit!

	▲	ahartmetz 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I spent three and half hours there and it felt rushed0. I would highly recommend watching some behind the scenes videos before going, it makes things that much more interesting.