德國：Hamburg和Hannover

德國我去過兩次，都是因公。一次是2002年去Hamburg訪問一個客戶，另一次是2003年去Hannover參加世界最大的電子產品展覽會CeBIT。還有一兩次在Frankford轉機，在機場停了幾個鍾頭，但那都不算。

在我的印象裏，德國整體經濟很發達，是一個管理的比較好的社會。

(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.

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你效率真高，一會兒功夫博客裏琳琅滿目了。

德國的交通還算方便。德國人開展會很瘋狂。

Hanover has only one or two hotels？ never heard about it.next time may check:

http://www.hannover.de/english/tourism_culture/hotels_unterkunft1/index.html， but stay in private house is nice.