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Most of you will probably know the wonderful Lühmanns Teestube in Blankenese - just about the only place in Hamburg where you can get a good scone! 

I will be reading there on Friday, April 20, 19.30. Please call to reserve tickets:  Tel. 040 863441, www.luehmanns-teestube.de/

There will be cheese and wine, tea and scones - and me reading from my novel, 'Ein Einziges Jahr'...

We will drinking…

Have you also noticed that many successful Baroque composers who made their careers in England were actually foreigners? With its unique free-market concert landscape, 18th century London was the city of endless possibilities for musicians of continental Europe’s more restrictive courts.



The ‘English’ works by French, Italian and German composers in this Saturday's…

Yotin Tiewtrakul, choir master at St Thomas Becket, welcomes experienced choral singers to join in a performance of John Stainer's oratorio, "The Crucifixion", at 5pm on 31 March - see events. If the excesses of Victorian romanticism make you swoon, then this date is a must for you. Rehearsals take place on 24 and 25 March and there will be a general rehearsal on the evening before the…

Just been there and forgot EC card, more important than anything else.

So Take it or waste of journey

February 25 promises to be a real feast for the senses to brighten up the greyest winter day. The Michel, one of the finest Baroque churches in northern Germany, will be the venue for a performance of Handel's great oratorio, The Messiah, composed in 1741. Sung in the original English by the Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg, it's an event not to be missed. If you're planning to take part in the Scratch Messiah on 2 December as part of the…

This Saturday, 28 January, is the first concert in the series to celebrate 400 years of the Anglican Church in Hamburg. Given by Ensemble Schirokko, it promises to be a feast of Baroque music from around the time the Merchant Adventurers, who founded the church, were flourishing in Hamburg.

The young ensemble's CD, Schirokkos Seereisen, was selected ‘CD der Woche’ by NDR and captures the listener with its 'extraordinary sense of sound, imaginative playing and great precision'. This is…

Poppies are available from now until Remembrance Sunday (13 November)

-  the British Consulate (Fehlandtstr. 6), British Shopping (Hegestrasse, Eppendorf), Kemp's English Pub (Mittelweg),    St Thomas Becket Church (Zeughausmarkt) and The Hamburg Players at Marschnerstr…

Performances at Theater an der Marschnerstraße

U-Bahn Hamburger Straße

2 – 5 and 9 – 12 November 2011,

Wednesdays to Saturdays at 7.30 pm,

plus a matinee on Saturday 5 November at 3.30 pm

Cast:

Wandering through the Karo-Viertel - on route, no doubt, to a Royal Wedding shindig at the Rota Flora -

it will have been impossible  for you to have missed the rapturous blue sailing ship posters, adorning

the outside of the delightful Centrosociale - The Story Boat's new venue - in the Sternschanze.

While the fine art work's quite worthy of the eschelons of Bridfas, the stories are what count - and they're a scream.

Hear tales of trouser-chasing,…

– Veranstaltung am 6./7. August im Hamburger Polo Club –

Hamburg, 14. März 2011 – Mit einem neuen Namen und einem neuen Eigentümer sieht der sehr beliebte British Day der Zukunft entgegen. British Flair heißt das von Home & Garden event GmbH veranstaltete „Lifestyle Event“, das am 6./7. August 2011 auf dem Gelände des Hamburger Polo Clubs…

“Just vote” is the motto of a flyer published by the Hamburg Parliament to explain how the new electoral law works. Now available in English, it can be downloaded on www.hamburgwahl.de. Only German citizens can vote in the elections to Hamburg’s Parliament, the Bürgerschaft. But in the elections to the District Assemblies (Bezirksversammlungen) German citizens and citizens of EU Member States are eligible to vote as long as they are at…

Geee, where to start.  After all the illness I am HAPPY to be feeling like my old self again.  Unfortunately, things are not going well at the store.  I can see the cultural differences a lot clearer.  I have been open since March 13th, 2010.  It was one of the happiest days in my life when I greeted and served my very first customer.  I felt like I had found my purpose and had a renewed sense of pride.  To be able to say this is my store and with the help of my Partner and family none of it…

Wow!  The holidays are over and I cant say that I´m not happy about it.  Oh, don´t get me wrong I love the holiday season, but this year was more stressful than usual.  It was fraught with illnesses and severe bouts of homesickness and lots of family time.  The store was closed to give me time to recover from my surgery the the first week of December. After being home from the hospital for 2 days, I was hit with a lung infection and Pneumonia...geesh.  I got over that after about a week and…

Merry Christmas everyone!  I survived the surgery and just when I got home from the hospital I got laid low with a really bad lung infection and Pneumonia.  Of course I was not able to come back to the store when I had planned.  Today is my first day back and I´m feeling better, not quite 100% yet but getting there....cough cough cough.  Its just amazing to me how much sickness I´ve had this year, not to mention the last few months.  Every germ in Hamburg has decided to come live with me. …

Poppies are now available at the Consulate and soon at a few other locations in Hamburg as well (eg British Shopping in Hegestrasse, Kemp's in Mittelweg, Anglo-German Club, etc.) Ring the Consulate 040 / 44803236 to check on locations. Please also note that on Sunday, the 14th November, there is a Remembrance Service at St.Thomas a Becket, Zeughausmarkt, followed by a wreath-lying ceremony at the Commonwealth Graves, Ohlsdorf…