we went on a day's trip to hamburg last week with the jankes, who love the city very much. we left the day after our arrival from cologne and came back very very late at night after seeing the harbour, having tea in a vantage point overlooking the river elbe, then on an extensive tour of the miniature wonderland, and finally dinner in the rat haus square where they were having the stuttgart wine festival!!
we went in two cars, our vw golf trying to catch up with the janke's merc...
... made even more difficult when it started to rain!
we toured the areas that were formally warehouses and now housing everything from galleries, theatres, the wonderland and a storehouse of exotic things like tea, coffee and carpets...
canals separating the warehouses
we took a boat cruise around hamburg harbour...... where the water was pretty choppy
we cruised past newer buildings being added atop the old warehouses.. like this one...hamburg philharmonic building coming up...
...which when completed will look like this! wow!
we also went past areas where the local had fought to preserve the old waterfront...
we went through sluice gates...
... and stacks of crushed cars waiting to be shipped to asia...
... while tankers like these imported newer cars...
and this gigantic cosco tanker stacked high with containers from china!
we went past old ships...
... including a lighthouse boat now converted into a restaurant...
after the boat cruise we went for a delicious lobster lunch... our dish when it arrived...
... which after being buttered up... and pried... ended up looking like this!
while we were walking towards the old widows' quarters it started raining...
... kukur and biralos!!
then we went into the st. michael's church.. and marveled at the bright and beautiful interior...
then we walked back to the pier again before driving to karlheinz hauser in sullberg from where we could see the airbus factory... en route we saw the airbus beluga ready for take off (it transports airbus partpurja)
from the bistro we could see the same vehicle container that we'd seen in the harbour earlier making its way down the elbe to the sea.. in the backdrop is the airbus plant... we even saw the freshly painted air france airbus 380 being towed into a hangar
another container arrives into the busy port
then we went to the miniature wonderland.. which was started a decade ago.. and where the miniature exhibits are being added very frequently... they had said that the viewing would take about two hours.. but we were so immersed that we spent double that time in the building.. marvelling at all the little details of people & animals (figures 200,000!!), mountains, trees (215,000!!!)... trains and railway tracks (12,000m!!!)...remembered buwa all along... could almost see him in those rooms... arms akimbo.. smile reaching up to his eyes.. and sayng to ujwal dekhis ta???
every 15 minutes or so the lights would dim for night fall.. and the lights in the little buildings and streets would come on... this scene of las vegas
the americas...
miami
there were not too many airplanes around.. the stress being more on trains..
... there is a new section nearing completion with a huge airport... featuring the latest aircraft...
there were beachfronts...
... harbours with fluctuating tide
... scandinivian winters
including a typical snowy predicament!!
farmlands with hovering hot air balloons...
... and scenes of hamburg.. including the building housing the miniature wonderland...
.. and the scene by night.. lit from within where you could see an even more miniature train going around the floor area!!!
st michael's church
a cycle race...
... a rally...
... with live tv coverage...
a football stadium.. where if you pressed a button the image would show a goal being scored.. the flashing of camera flash and a crescendo of cheers from the audience
while ourside the arena someone was clearing litter...
and still others were putting up a protest...
mourners at a burial...
the sunflower fields had many rompers!!!
a performance in an outdoor amphitheatre...
... a coalmine...
an archeological dig...
incredible mesh of trains, roads and waterways... with a pumpkin fest!
they had made this whole imaginary township of knuffingen.. and this is the lowenstein castle, with its beautiful gardens...
street scene in knuffingen...
... fire engines and ambulances with sirens wailing attend to a truck on fire on the highway...
doing the laundry
a little bit of austria...
scene from the alps... mt. titlis in switzerland
and remembering the tunick's body landscapes on the melting glaciers of the swiss alps!!
... the two-storey swiss landscape (there's a chocolate factory that dispenses real lindt chocolate on the bottom floor)!!!
there's a display that cut through a village under water following the construction of a hydro dam...
... with ghosts going through the roof of the submerged homes!
a stork nest!
a wedding
castle with medieval festivity in knuffingen
night time view of a rock concert with 20,000 audience.. holding up little torches!!
one of the rows of toilets for the concert crowd!!!
... delighted viewers!!
by the time we came out.. it was dusk already...
ujwal took us to the centre of town.. in front of the rathaus...
where there was a stuttgart wine fest going on, with music, singing, dancing... and a whole lot of cheer! after dining on traditional german cuisine.. we came home late late in the night.. singing antakshari.. just so that our eyes would not go chimma!
we went in two cars, our vw golf trying to catch up with the janke's merc...
... made even more difficult when it started to rain!
we toured the areas that were formally warehouses and now housing everything from galleries, theatres, the wonderland and a storehouse of exotic things like tea, coffee and carpets...
canals separating the warehouses
we took a boat cruise around hamburg harbour...... where the water was pretty choppy
we cruised past newer buildings being added atop the old warehouses.. like this one...hamburg philharmonic building coming up...
...which when completed will look like this! wow!
we also went past areas where the local had fought to preserve the old waterfront...
we went through sluice gates...
... and stacks of crushed cars waiting to be shipped to asia...
... while tankers like these imported newer cars...
and this gigantic cosco tanker stacked high with containers from china!
we went past old ships...
... including a lighthouse boat now converted into a restaurant...
after the boat cruise we went for a delicious lobster lunch... our dish when it arrived...
... which after being buttered up... and pried... ended up looking like this!
while we were walking towards the old widows' quarters it started raining...
... kukur and biralos!!
then we went into the st. michael's church.. and marveled at the bright and beautiful interior...
then we walked back to the pier again before driving to karlheinz hauser in sullberg from where we could see the airbus factory... en route we saw the airbus beluga ready for take off (it transports airbus partpurja)
from the bistro we could see the same vehicle container that we'd seen in the harbour earlier making its way down the elbe to the sea.. in the backdrop is the airbus plant... we even saw the freshly painted air france airbus 380 being towed into a hangar
another container arrives into the busy port
then we went to the miniature wonderland.. which was started a decade ago.. and where the miniature exhibits are being added very frequently... they had said that the viewing would take about two hours.. but we were so immersed that we spent double that time in the building.. marvelling at all the little details of people & animals (figures 200,000!!), mountains, trees (215,000!!!)... trains and railway tracks (12,000m!!!)...remembered buwa all along... could almost see him in those rooms... arms akimbo.. smile reaching up to his eyes.. and sayng to ujwal dekhis ta???
every 15 minutes or so the lights would dim for night fall.. and the lights in the little buildings and streets would come on... this scene of las vegas
the americas...
miami
there were not too many airplanes around.. the stress being more on trains..
... there is a new section nearing completion with a huge airport... featuring the latest aircraft...
there were beachfronts...
... harbours with fluctuating tide
... scandinivian winters
including a typical snowy predicament!!
farmlands with hovering hot air balloons...
... and scenes of hamburg.. including the building housing the miniature wonderland...
.. and the scene by night.. lit from within where you could see an even more miniature train going around the floor area!!!
st michael's church
a cycle race...
... a rally...
... with live tv coverage...
a football stadium.. where if you pressed a button the image would show a goal being scored.. the flashing of camera flash and a crescendo of cheers from the audience
while ourside the arena someone was clearing litter...
and still others were putting up a protest...
mourners at a burial...
the sunflower fields had many rompers!!!
a performance in an outdoor amphitheatre...
... a coalmine...
an archeological dig...
incredible mesh of trains, roads and waterways... with a pumpkin fest!
they had made this whole imaginary township of knuffingen.. and this is the lowenstein castle, with its beautiful gardens...
street scene in knuffingen...
... fire engines and ambulances with sirens wailing attend to a truck on fire on the highway...
doing the laundry
a little bit of austria...
scene from the alps... mt. titlis in switzerland
and remembering the tunick's body landscapes on the melting glaciers of the swiss alps!!
... the two-storey swiss landscape (there's a chocolate factory that dispenses real lindt chocolate on the bottom floor)!!!
there's a display that cut through a village under water following the construction of a hydro dam...
... with ghosts going through the roof of the submerged homes!
a stork nest!
a wedding
castle with medieval festivity in knuffingen
night time view of a rock concert with 20,000 audience.. holding up little torches!!
one of the rows of toilets for the concert crowd!!!
... delighted viewers!!
by the time we came out.. it was dusk already...
ujwal took us to the centre of town.. in front of the rathaus...
where there was a stuttgart wine fest going on, with music, singing, dancing... and a whole lot of cheer! after dining on traditional german cuisine.. we came home late late in the night.. singing antakshari.. just so that our eyes would not go chimma!
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