Copenhagen .. July 15th & 16th

 Another weekend city break where the main aim was to get around to as many of the photographic locations as possible..

EasyJet flights were straight forward for a change and I stayed at Hotel Bethel which is right in the middle of the main Nyhavn ..

Getting about was mainland Metro using the prepaid Pass and buses, from which all sites are within walking distance..

Valensole, France ~ 8th & 9th July

 Had a great weekend in Provence around the lavender region of Valensole, France 8th & 9th July ..

Flew with EasyJet to Marseille Airport which was cheap enough then hired a car with Europcar which definitely wasn’t cheap £388 for two days .. Pants down ..

It’s only an hours drive to Valensole then spent the day driving round to the many lavender fields looking for my sunset location which I found on the Plateau to return to later ..

My hotel was Les Chambres d hotes de Valensole through booking.com checked in etc and a short drive back for sunset …

Sunrise was from the main D6 road near Terraroma and with plenty of other people with the same idea getting a model in your image was fairly easy ..

Nice weekend away a bit more expensive than I expected it to be still better than staying at home ..

Vienna, Austria ~ 1st & 2nd July

 Spent the weekend of 1st & 2nd of July sightseeing in Vienna, Austria ..

Flew out early Saturday morning with Austrian Airlines and then travelled around with trains and the underground going to all the major locations in the city …

Unfortunately some of the locations were closed like office buildings for spiral stairs etc ..

Getting around was so cheap with a city pass but forgetting to buy a train ticket back to the airport and getting fined €105 wiped that out …

Enjoyable trip …

Hamburg … 24th & 25th June

 Flew out Saturday morning with EasyJet 24th June arriving early afternoon and got the train in to Speicherstadt, the old warehouse region.

Two trains and one underground later all on time, clean, modern and cheap unlike the Uk ..

Really easy to navigate and move around using offline map of Hamburg on Google maps.

I visited quite a few photographic locations  ..

Above is the courtyard of the Sprinkenhof building ..

Below is the Chilehaus building and the other glass building is across the main road ..

Had the best Vegan burger at Vincent Vegan right outside the main Hamburg Station before trying my luck with a couple of office buildings but as it’s a Saturday I had my fingers crossed, Hirschfeld-haus I just couldn’t find after walking up & down a few roads in the area, the other Esplanadebau was closed and as the temperature was 28 degrees I had a cold beer before back tracking ..

Sunset was 10:10pm and I watched as it set at the well known part of the warehouse region of Spiecherstadt,  I took with me a Gorillapod to wrap on the railing but this picked up every vibration so definitely needed a tripod which I didn’t bring in hand luggage.

I waited till gone midnight for the lights to be switched on but gave up finding out later that they start in August blue hour only and October fully on so a winter visit is needed..

My hotel for the night was Elbgalarie Hotel near to my morning location..

A walk to the underground and one stop later I’m at Uberseequarter subway station, either end of the platform are escalators as you can see below ..

A bit more sightseeing like the Elbtunnel & more of the warehouse region then some lunch before it was time to get the train back to the airport..