The tourist in me is writing this :) :Something that I would deeply recommend to anyone visiting Hamburg. It costs about 30 euros and you are taken on a two-hour trip through Hamburg's red light district by a woman dressed like a prostitute in the old ages.
You really get to know a lot about the history of this place and how it developed and even stood its ground during the Nazi era. You also get to see what a 'classic' room a prostitute occupies looks like. They also take you onto the Great Freedom and let you know that it hasn't gotten its name from anything concerning sex, but that this area once had been occupied by the Danish and their laws for merchants where a lot looser than the Germans'. You also get to know a lot more about the 'Laufhäuser', which are the brothels along the Reeperbahn, and what is going in Schmuckstraße, something I have told you already in my chapter on the Great Freedom church. At the end of the tour, as a thank you, you also get a very specific schnaps, they call 'Hurenschnaps'...tastes quite nice :)
So whenever you go to Hamburg, do the historic whore tour! It's definitely worth the money and they also offer the tour in English.
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