Eight-thirty in the morning and we’re back on the bus heading back into the city to catch the opening time for one of its most famous tourist attractions, which we thought had to be a ‘must-visit’. So we’re driving down Bahrenfelder Strasse accompanied by Colin Ventura’s second mix of our Hamburg bus journey. All aboard! […]
We’ve already travelled halfway across Hamburg with you on the S-bahn and the U-bahn, so now it’s time to take a trip on one of the city’s many hundreds of huge, timely and efficient buses that purr along quietly through its streets. Hamburg’s taking great strides towards being an energy-efficient, environmentally-aware city and its network […]
The Willkomm Hoeft is surely unique to Hamburg, and such a fascinating sonic location that I took a special car trip out just to record there, even though it’s a long way from the city, as you can see. Here’s the deal: every ship that enters or leaves the port is logged according to its […]
We came across this excellent field recording by Colin Ventura via Twitter, and he kindly agreed to let us use it on Cities and Memory – it’s a walkthrough of a length of the amusement arcade on the Golden Mile at the seaside resort of Southend-on-Sea, his hometown. No sooner had we offered it up […]
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- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
Grand Prix winner and Coup de Coeur winner, Académie Charles Cros
