麦克西的世界

德国我去过两次，都是因公。一次是2002年去Hamburg访问一个客户，另一次是2003年去Hannover参加世界最大的电子产品展览会CeBIT。还有一两次在Frankford转机，在机场停了几个钟头，但那都不算。

在我的印象里，德国整体经济很发达，是一个管理的比较好的社会。

(1) A lake in Hamburg
 

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(4) Street scenes in Hamburg


(5) Rail station in Hamburg


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(7) Inside the rail station


(8) It was a very large station.


(9) An ancient church rebuilt after the wars


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(11) McDonald's is everywhere


(12) See the Chinese restaurent?


(13) There happened to be a beer or wine festival going on at Hamburg. I saw allot of beer and sausage being comsumed.


(14) Downtown square


(15) What was interesting in this picture is the sign on the building. Bank of China has a branch there!


(16) Want a taxi?


(17) The Smart car was popular there, many years before I saw the first one in America


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(19) Night scene from an amusement park


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(21) Inside the train. This was in Hannover.


(22) The house I stayed. Hannover is actually a very small town and has only a few hotels. Most guests to CBiT stay in local people's houses, like bed-and-breakfast. There were 200,000 visitors.


(23) The host lady was very friendly but didn't speak much English. She lives by herself and her kids are grown-up now. Most local residences open their doors to host guests for the Hannover conventions to supplement their income.


(24) The living room was quite warm when the heater was on but the heater in the common areas such as kitchen, stairways, and bathrooms was closed at the night time. All bedrooms are upstairs and the restrooms are all downstairs. You can imagine when I had to use the restroom at night, I had to go through the common areas in cold temperature. That was in March when Germany was still in cold winter with snows covering everywhere.


(25) Here is the reason why CeBIT is the largest in the world. It has 27 foot-ball sized exhibition halls, all open at the same time. You'll have your feet cut off if you try to walk through all of them.