The largest German cities generally use only one letter as the city code on their license plates. For example, B=Berlin, M=Munich (München), K=Cologne (Köln), F=Frankfurt, L=Leipzig, and S=Stuttgart. Although Hamburg is Germany's second largest city, H is used by Hanover and Hamburg instead uses HH as a reference to its earlier membership in the Hanseatic League (German: Hansestadt Hamburg).
My coworker Jamie also came on this trip and he brought his family. In the evenings, we visited a fair at the Hamburger Dom and I got a chance to go to the harbor and take some photos.
The night before we drove home, we went to see the model trains at Miniatur Wunderland. I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would. It was a lot of fun.
Great pics, Paul! Love the neon lights. The mini-world looks cool too. Do they include the little busses that take passengers from the terminal out to the Lufthansa planes?
ReplyDeleteI do not remember seeing the airport buses...
ReplyDeleteI have yet to visit the German "Paris of the North". When I saw the miniature airplane picture, I thought maybe you were using a tilt-shift lens or photoshop dof effect on normal photographs... but that really is a miniature plane! =) [1] Still nice shallow depth of field.
ReplyDeleteJust this week I was talking about the German license plate city letter conventions, and recently I saw "GER" for the city... I thought maybe they were trying to say "Germany" on a German plate... but really it was for the village of "Gera" I heard.
[1] http://www.thecleverest.com/comparing-photoshops-lens-blur-filter-to-a-real-tilt-shift-lens/ - pardon some of the language