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Nice pics! Hamburg is great. Did you get a chance to explore the neighbourhoods outside of downtown?

Hamburg reminded me a lot of London. It had the red brick apartment buildings interspersed with towers blocks and po and it was laced with old elevated rail lines. Also, like London, Hamburg feels pretty vast. I'm not saying that Hamburg is the spit and image of London; their residential vernaculars are quite a bit different. But it's got a muscular urban landscape that goes on forever - well, at least by German standards. Of course, London is a much bigger and more populated city, so it feels more "full", but you get the idea. I think the best analogy would be that comparing Hamburg's feel to London's is like comparing Philadelphia to Brooklyn/Queens.