What to get where
by sabsi
The biggest choice of English books:
Schmorl & von Seefeld, Kr?pcke
The biggest and most central post office: Leave the railway station at the front and turn right. Cross the street, it's there. Post office signs are yellow in Germany.
The Tourist Information: It's next to the post office I just told ya about.
Tram tickets: There are machines at every stop. Make sure you have the correct change - the machine doesn't give change. You can't buy the tickets on the train.
Shopping on Sundays: Only in the main station, normal shops are closed. Little things like cigarettes, bread, sweets or drinks you get at petrol stations or little shops called 'Kiosk' or 'Trinkhalle'
Concert or Cinema tickets: You can buy them in the big department stores, e.g. at 'Kaufhof' opposite the main station.
The best cocktails: At Chim?, a Southamerican Restaurant and bar at Lange Laube/corner Otto Brenner Strasse.
The best 'Currywurst': At 'Pl?mecke' - a pub in a part of Hannover called 'List'. It's a traditional, old fashioned place - and really popular. It's in Vo?strasse. German's chancellor Gerhard Schr?der used to go here I've heard!
Internet Access: There are some free terminals in the bookshop in the main station (upstairs) and also in Benetton Megastore in Georgstrasse the Internet terminals seemed free for me (but I am not sure about this). Apart from that you can find Internet cafes all over the city - but this is no 'Easy Everything' City yet...
English films: As you might know films are dubbed in Germany... unfortunately! But the new multiplex cinema 'Cinemaxx' at Raschplatz shows films in the original version (used to be 3 different ones, nowadays it's only one or two). Check www.cinemaxx.de for details.
Cafe Glocksee & Indigo (Independent music)
by chancay
mixed music 80th, 90th, rockmusic and independent, sometimes a bit hard rock, metal, changes. There are often concerts of less and more known groups, as well national as international ones. :-) don´t go in smoking, it´s more normal clothes, whatever you want
Best crispy duck in romantic atmosphere
by vanessadb about Shogun
Definitely the most romantic restaurant I know in Hannover. Dimmed lighting, red hues, tables not too close to one another for privacy, at least for dinner.
Unfortunately Shogun closed.. The duck is the specialty by all means. You can order it in different sizes (quarter/half) and with different sauces on top of the crispy skin.
Go to the top of the town
by jayhawk2000
I'm pleased to say Hannover has a proper town hall: open to the public and offering an enriching, informative experience. For some insight into the city--and fantastic views over it--you must take a look in.
From the outside the building is grand but elegant, with many entertaining details catching the eye. Inside is a cool marble hall with interesting sculptures, decorated balustrades and graceful staircases. A series of models are on view where you can plot the develop of the city, from its medieval merchant days, commercial powerhouse status and near utter destruction during WWII. We made several trips around the displays, seeing what survived, what was rebuilt and how the city has grown.
Be sure to buy a ticket to go up the tower. The lift slants as it goes up the curve of the dome, which some claustrophic types may find a bit too exciting. However, the panorama from the top is awesome.
old town hall
by Lucky79
It was built over a period of more than 100 years. The earliest part (from 1410) overlooks the Schmiedestraße (Blacksmith Street), the later wing next to the market was erected on the foundations of the 13th century trade hall. The adjacent wing in the Koebelinger Straße is called the "Chemists" Wing (Apothekenflügel", because it was the location of the Town Hall's pharmacy. This wing was later rebuilt in Italian Romanesque style, after a citizen's "action group" led by a well known neo-Gothic architect, Conrad Wilhelm Hase, managed to save the entire building from demolition in 1844. Hase was subsequently commisioned to renovate the remaining wings in their original style of 1500, with its exceptional gothic gables and the ornamental frieze.
Amongst the portraits of the princes and coats-of-arms its features the "Luderziehen", a popular game from the Middle-Ages, a kind of "Tug of War". This marvellous picture above the outer right arched window in the Schmiedestraße can only be seen be following the "red line" around the Old Town Hall.
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Vegetable pasta
Palace, herrenhausen
view from guests room (march 2006)
view to the south
