"A city on the cutting-edge, Berlin has often been in the spotlight on the world stage over the past 100 years. This is a city where constant change is a given. Sure, the Wall isn't there any more, but Berlin is still very much divided: in the centre of the city, there's a pretty neat segue from the wealthy glitz of the west to newly developed central east Berlin. " 

"The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, one of the 16 states of the federation, is the second largest city in Germany with its 1.7 million inhabitants. In this sense it is a city as well as a state.  
Hamburg is also culturally and commercially the center of all of Northern Germany. The metropolitan region consists of 3.5 million people – for all of them, Hamburg is the shopping and cultural metropolis.  
The municipal area with its 755 km2 is seven times the size of Paris and 2 ½ times that of London. For this very reason Hamburg presents an exceptionally high standard of living and housing. 
With 30 m2 living space per person, Hamburg enjoys the largest average personal living space of all big cities in the world. In fact, 14% of the city is made up of green and recreation areas.  
Hamburg boasts 2302 bridges, more than the total of all bridges that Venice and Amsterdam have to offer. With more than 90 consulates, Hamburg ranks only second to New York as the city with the most consulates in the world. " 
 
 

Recommended Places: 
Wien (Café - Bar) (Ballindam Binnenalster, Hamburg) A nice place in ship in the lake. Pictures are not allowed.
Artusi (Restaurant) (Kollwitzstr. 56, Berlin) Pizzas, salads and pasta.
Maredo (Restaurant)(All over Germany) Good beef. IIf you want to rest of german pork.