During my first trip to Hamburg last year, I was so smitten with the astonishing Elbphilharmonie that I knew I had to return to this Hanseatic city and the celebrated concert hall for another opportunity to imbibe the heady grandeur of this splendid monument to music… and to do more of the things in Hamburg that I had not had time to do during my first visit.

How is it that women sporting scarlet frocks seem to get songs written about them? Cuban-born crooner and bandleader Desi Arnaz told us that "The fellas are crazy for the lady in red…" and that she was "the toast of the town." And much more recently, Argentine-born, UK-raised Chris deBurgh, gave us his hit "The Lady in Red," in which he intoned, "I've never seen so many people want to be there by your side." Indeed.