Month: December 2016

Mainz -> Hattersheim-> Aarau -> Solothurn.

Left Hamburg on a cool morning with trees looking like puffs of smoke. Not great through the train Window.

The to the Landschaftspark in Duisburg, there are concert areas, climbing walls, scuba diving and probably more, I didn’t have lots of time to check it out fully.

Would be a great place to go in summer with events on.

 

In Hamburg with Oliver from Laos. A chilly steely blue day to get shown around a bit on.

Mulled wine then into the new Elbphilharmonie, a new 900 million € concert hall.

From the 37 Meter high level of the concert hall the views below.

The off to the beach for more mulled wine and viewing the river.

The to a part of the town where some of the anarchist squats still exist.

Wandered along the river and then to the Reeperbahn

Pic below from the bar Heaven 23 floor at Reeperbahn 1

Then  to the Dom, which in Hamburg is a carnival

I agree with Finley that Currywurst is a pretty good invention.

 

When they built the Flevoland Polder they got some artists to create land on it for the occasion.

Yesterday Judith, Christian and I went and checked out a few of the pieces.

I shall add my pix later.

That water was mostly solid

The negative

The positive

The one below “garden of love and fire” was partly missing, maintenance I guess, but the aluminum wall parts were not there.

In some ways you need a drone view for some of them, but Judith says the Observatorium draws a crowd at the solstices and equinox.

Some time less wintery would make quite a difference too.

I am really glad I accidentally became aware these were around me.