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Ham­burg, Hafenge­burt­stag © wiki­me­dia, Rein­hard Lucas

Ahoy! The world’s great­est port fes­ti­val, the Hafenge­burt­stag in Ham­burg, will be cel­e­brated this week­end from 6 to 8 May 2011 open­ing with the Grand arrival parade of the giants of the oceans. For the 822th time the Ham­burg Har­bour is hon­oured within this long tra­di­tion with a big birth­day party. Gaas­tra with its long nau­ti­cal tra­di­tion and focus on exclu­sive mar­itime fash­ion and pro­fes­sional sail­ing gear, wishes Happy Birth­day as well! Ham­burg res­i­dents and around 50.000 vis­i­tors will enjoy the mar­itime set­ting around Ham­burg Land­ing Stage (Lan­dungs­brücken) and the big vary­ing pro­gramme of the Hafenge­burt­stags’ three-day event for the whole fam­ily: With a total of 5 tall ships like the Queen Mary 2, Amadea, the new Mein Schiff 2, AID­Ablu, 6 cruise ships and more than 300 ves­sels includ­ing her­itage sail­ing ves­sels and museum ships, vis­i­tors even can enjoy the inter­na­tional Ham­burg Har­bour atmos­phere on board of many ships. You can prom­e­nade the 3.5 km long ‘Hafen­meile’ along the Elbe on land as well and watch the inter­na­tional ships call­ing at Ham­burg port while enjoy­ing deli­cous food & music and breath­ing a fresh breeze of tra­di­tion and mod­ern spirit at that spe­cial XXL-Birthday-Event! And for every­body, who is plan­ning to visit the famous Ger­man Clas­sics Regatta spon­sored by Gaas­tra in Laboe in August this year, we rec­om­mend: Dress up the real nau­ti­cal way for this sec­ond big event in north­ern Ger­many and save your Gaas­tra Ger­man Clas­sics Regatta Poloshirt from the Lim­ited Coun­try Polo Edi­tion the fastest way in your Offi­cial Gaas­tra Online Shop. Within this Spe­cial Gaas­tra Poloshirt Edi­tion, the Gaas­tra Poloshirt Nether­lands, the Gaas­tra Poloshirt Spain, the Gaas­tra Poloshirt Italy and the Gaas­tra Poloshirt France is rep­re­sented as well!

Gaas­tra Polo Germany

Gaas­tra Polo France

Gaas­tra Polo Spain

Gaas­tra Polo Netherlands

spe­cial Gaas­tra pra­line for christmas

Christ­mas is just around the cor­ner and to get you in the right mood for it Gaas­tra came up with a spe­cial idea. For every Gaas­tra order until Christ­mas you’ll get a lit­tle present — a selected pra­line in a specially-designed Gaas­tra cube.
It’s a deli­cious hand crafted Felch­lin choclate truf­fle with del­i­cate Grand Cru and 49% cacao cou­ver­ture from the Ham­burg con­fec­tionary “Herr Max”.
“Herr Max” has its cake shop in the well­known Schanzen­vier­tel in Ham­burg where he pro­duces selected tartes, cakes and pra­lines using only the finest ingre­di­ents. The con­fec­tionary has its place in a beau­ti­ful old milk­store from 1905 with nice antique tiles at its walls. A small café is included where you can have a cup of cof­fee and a glanze into the small bak­ery behind the café where all the deli­cious cakes and other baked goods are done.

So place your Gaas­tra order and let your­self seduce with our delight­ful praline!

Have you seen the spec­tac­u­lar Drachen­boat Cup 2010 where the Gaas­tra team ended sec­ond out of six­teen teams? It took place in Ham­burg at the 11th of June 2010 and was brought to Ger­many by Michael Stich, the well-known ten­nis player.

Have fun and enjoy watch­ing the video!