Tips to help navigate this blog:
- TOP: Location Guide for Sennelager; links to HIVE's Social Media, and a map of contact details for our worldwide network of information centres.
- LEFT COLUMN: Use the search engine; sign up to receive our weekly email updates, or find information by subject.
- RIGHT COLUMN: Contact HIVE with your specific query.
- CENTRAL SECTION: All the latest posts in date order:

Wednesday, May 8, 2024

HIVE Update

Garrison News

  • Oberhausen Coach Trip - Book your coach trip by this Friday -  Tickets for the coach trip to Oberhausen  must be confirmed by this Friday. 
  • Gate Closure -Antwerp Gate Closures for German Bank holidays are on the 9th, 20th and 30th May this year. 
  • Euro 2024 Flights are getting expensive around the dates of the England games in Germany for the euros. June 16th, 20th & 25th Gelsenkirchen, Frankfurt  & Cologne
  • Health and Wellbeing Fayre - Keep the 22nd  May Free and join the Health & Wellbeing fayre for free tea & Coffee plus tasters from the NAAFI team. supporting our SP and their families. 

What's on 

German Fathers Day 9th and Mothers Day 12th May

Schloss Neuhaus Beer Festival 

Starts this week on Thursday - German Fathers Day. the Gardens are transformed into a giant bar complete with music and food. the Mayor of Paderborn will tap the first Keg on Thursday 9th and the event runs until the weekend and wraps up on Mothers Day 

  • May 9th: 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.
  • May 10: 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. 
  • May 11 : 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. May
  • 12: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m


Street food festival Dusseldorf  9th -12th May Starts 4pm Fri 12 noon on Sat & Sun.



Property - people have been asking what you need to do to buy property in Germany as an expat - Here is an online webinar to help 13th May 

The Stuttgart Cansttater comes to a close this weekend on the 12th May - Large fireworks and funfair with Beer fest



Hamburg port anniversary celebrations 9th -12th May 

The event celebrated by the Hamburg Port Anniversary is the declaration of Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa, in 1189, that Hamburg's port was a custom-free zone. It was this tax exemption that enabled Hamburg to prosper and eventually become the third-largest port in Europe, and so it is celebrated at this triumphant anniversary, year after year.



Frankfurt Green Sauce Event 

This Frankfurt speciality consists of sour cream, oil, vinegar, mustard, hard-boiled eggs and seven herbs (parsley, chives, chervil, cress, borage, sorrel and salad burnet). Green sauce (Grüne Soße), known as “Grie Soß” in Frankfurt dialect, is usually served cold, with boiled potatoes and hard-boiled eggs. A whole host of events will celebrate the sauce from the 11th - 18th May in Frankfurt, more info here.



Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Antwerp Gate Closure - GE Public Holidays - May 2024

  • 9th May – Gate will close 1800 hrs on 8th and reopen 10th at 0700 hrs
  • 20th May – gate will close 1800 hrs on 17th reopen 21st at 0700 hrs
  • 30th May – Gate will close 1800 hrs 29th reopen 31st at 0700 hrs