The Arabia steamboat is something like what the Vasa is for European ship history (just dated a few centuries later…). The side wheeler steamboat sank in operation close to nowadays Kansas City in 1856 in the Missouri River. In the late 1980’s,…
Duisburg Harbor Cruise with Weisse Flotte
If you think about famous German harbor cities, you might initially think of places like Hamburg or Kiel. However, Duisburg in the Ruhrgebiet region is even holding a superlative – its habor is the world largest inland harbor of the world.…
Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
Especially as a German aviation enthusiast, being on board of an aircraft carrier is just a cool experience again and again. One of the museum places where this is possible is the West shore of Manhattan, where the USS Intrepid…
Whale Watching with North Sailing Husavik (Iceland)
Husavik is not only known due to the Fire Saga Eurovision movie on Netflix, but is more than that one of the key whale watching spots in Iceland. Thus, on our Ring Road Trip in April and May 2023, my wife and…
Exploring Hamburg with the HADAG Public Ferries – Line 61
In the order of posting the episodes of my trip report of exploring Hamburg Habor (here is my overview posting with my lines 62 & 64 pictures) with public ferries, this posting about line 61 will close my small set…
Exploring Hamburg with the HADAG Public Ferries – Line 73
This episode of my Hamburg Public Ferry trip report takes you to my favorite route of all, Line 73 (see overview posting). Even though the trip is comparably short, the channels you navigate along are rather narrow, so that you…
Exploring Hamburg with the HADAG Public Ferries – Line 72
The second posting about exploring Hamburg with the HADAG public ferries features Line 72, which is special in multiple aspects. Apart from that, the ferry takes you to the East of the Landungsbrücken, while the other line typically mostly head West…
Exploring Hamburg with the HADAG Public Ferries – Lines 62 & 64 & Overview
Typically, my Trip Reports are like travel diaries. One posting per day, telling you all the stories of a trip, including all the minor ones which will never make it to a Flyctory.com posting. This trip report will be slightly…