Long Study Tour pt 1 - Germany

Note: This blog post contains just a few selections of the many pictures I took on the Study Tour - for a larger gallery of photos, click on this link!!!! 

To start our trip, we crossed the Baltic on a ferry and landed in Germany!

We spent the first day in Hamburg touring the new harbor development called Hafen City.

They've completely redone a spot that used to be a shipping hub that was basically abandoned by the industry. Now it has fancy-shmancy apartments, shops, hang out spots, and the in-the-works Elbphilharmonie opera house (it's behind construction construction schedule because of a budget crisis... whoops). Hamburg seems to thrive around the water (there are more bridges there than in Venice!!!!).