If we ignore Corona, city trips were and are something like the icing on the travel cake. Just a little taste of a place for a long weekend. Culture, curiosities, lifestyle, laissez-faire and partying. The short, active alternative to a wellness trip, where you just want to put your feet up and be pampered. In Germany, the ranking for such urban excursions is relatively clear. Berlin, Hamburg, Dresden, Munich, Lübeck, Freiburg are actually always in the top 10. But one city is rarely found in the rankings - the city on the Weser, Bremerhaven. In short, and spoiler alert: that's a mistake. Of course, very few of us have any idea why we should go there. If you haven't been there in the recent past, you simply don't have the images in your head. The attractions, the well-known offers or an attitude to life that has been talked about so often. Bremerhaven is, yes, the port of Bremen. The economy is not doing well, we have heard. Wasn't there something about unemployment and an unsavory proximity to Nazis and other right-wing parties? Is Bremerhaven the antithesis of Freiburg, with its charming alleyways, southern charm, delicious food and drink and great climate? It would be a shame to leave it at this first cliché impression. Bremerhaven is much more than that. For example, it has two really great museums, both of which are didactically designed in such a way that boredom is a foreign word, and children and young people have to be urged to leave the museum again. One is about our climate with a journey around the globe that is actually staged. And as a visitor, you feel everything: from the Sahel heat to the steaming rainforest to the ice desert of the Antarctic. Or the emigration house, where you can get up close and personal with people who left Germany by ship for New York as "economic refugees" decades ago under the most adventurous conditions. Seven million of them left Bremerhaven. In this museum, too, everything is staged in such a way that it is difficult to contain your emotions. And the port will blow you away as a landlubber. One of the largest container terminals in the world with a quay over five kilometers long. Six million containers a year whiz across the area, two million cars are loaded onto ships, 40,000 trains and countless trucks bring the goods out of the port area. Oh yes, Bremerhaven is also the fish finger world champion with 2.7 billion small pieces of fish in breadcrumbs a year... You can also look at that and be amazed. Yes, amazement is the predominant state of mind when visiting Bremerhaven. And what more could you want for two or three days? --- Most of you know that I almost always shoot my films alone - so a long way from the production reality of the public broadcasters - the few that still do serious travel journalism. If you are interested in the reduced technical equipment I use, here is the link: https://wasmitreisen.com/das-beste-eq... --- Tourist information about Bremerhaven: www.bremerhaven.de/tourismus Climate House - www.klimahaus-bremerhaven.de Emigration House - www.dah-bremerhaven.de Big Ships Tour - www.ms-geestermuende.de Sea Fish Cooking Studio - www.seefischkochstudio.de Fishery Harbor Display - www.schaufenster-fischereihafen.de The Harbor Bus - www.derhafenbus.de Harbor Tour by Boat - www.hafenrundfahrt-bremerhaven.de Last Pub Before New York - www.treffpunktkaiserhafen.de Zoo by the Sea - www.zoo-am-meer-bremerhaven.de A hotel tip: I personally had a very pleasant stay at "The Liberty" during filming. The rooms have a nice design. There is a good restaurant on the ground floor, Mulberry St. The hotel is in the middle of the Havenwelten and is a direct neighbor of the German Emigration Center. It couldn't be more centrally located in the touristy area of ​​Bremerhaven - www.liberty-bremerhaven.com You can also stay very centrally in the "Little Dubai Tower" in the Havenwelten. It houses the Atlantik Sail City Hotel. www.atlantic-hotels.de/hotel-sail-city-bremerhaven/