The in-port stay was better than I expected. Free days were filled with trips to Berlin, the Peter Tamm Nautical Museum, a concentration camp and other museums in the city. Only half a day of rain, extremely friendly people, and a very interesting city made the in-port memorable. I myself immensely enjoyed Hamburg. From when the Empire State V tied up at the Kaiser Wilhelm dock in 1985, many things have changed.
Berlin is now united.
No more Cold War. Where The Wall stood, a red line divides what was East and what was West. No Man's Land is fast being filled up with modern buildings. The amount of construction is enormous as the new capital of Germany takes form. Now we head for Dublin, in fog and, of course, calm seas.