Hafengeburtstag

Harbor Birthday Celebration

Being a port city is what sets Hamburg apart from the other big German cities. This makes the annual Harbor Birthday celebration a pretty big deal to the Hamburgers. Ships from all over the world come to show off, and people from all over Northern Germany crowd in to watch them.

Not knowing what to expect from such an anticipated celebration, we got to the harbor way too early. Nevertheless, the sun was shining and the friendly Germans behind us had lots of questions for us Americans.



There were people EVERYWHERE, and it was 3:00 in the afternoon on  workday.

I kept waiting for Jack Sparrow to hop out, but alas, he never did.

To thank me for supporting the Hafengeburtstag efforts, the pretzel people let me buy this warm, gooey pretzel/mini-loaf of bread to snack on. After all, watching boats go by certainly requires a carb load-up.