Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Drop in and take a look around next time - although the traffic system in Bremen is a catastrophe, it's reasonably easy to find a place to park close to the centre. Most of the ?highlights? are concentrated in a very small area - like in L?beck. It's nice to sit outside one of the restaurants in the cathedral square on a warm and sunny day and just watch the world go by. Cheers Douglas On 28.01.2010 19:38, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > Wonderful, Douglas. Looks cold too :-) I have driven past Bremen many > times on the way to Denmark but never visited. L?beck I know well, and > love it. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.nathanfoto.com > > Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog > > > > On Jan 27, 2010, at 7:40 PM, Douglas Sharp wrote: > > >> Sunday we were invited to a New Year reception staged by the Bremen >> Journalists Club and the Merchants Guild of 1801. >> >> The walk from the station past the mill (go back one shot, and you can >> see what it looks like in good weather at around the same time last year) >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Bremen/_MG_0641.jpg.html >> >> and the bronze pigs, >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Bremen/_MG_0643.jpg.html >> >> across the cathedral square, >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Bremen/_MG_0644.jpg.html >> >> past the town hall >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Bremen/_MG_0647.jpg.html >> >> and into the Schnoor, the oldest part of the city, with some wonderful >> shops >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Bremen/_MG_0648.jpg.html >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Bremen/_MG_0649.jpg.html >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Bremen/_MG_0659.jpg.html >> >> was ice-cold, around -20?C, and we were happy to get into the warmth of >> the Club. >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Bremen/_MG_0652.jpg.html >> >> A very entertaining show, too. Germany's leading political columunist >> (Heribert Prantl) and the secretary of state of Bremen's parliament in a >> radio chat with our old friend Theo Schl?ter - with breaks filled very >> professionally by the local amateur barbershop group "Fishermans Fresh" >> (who are actually more of a madrigal choir) >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Bremen/_MG_0656.jpg.html >> >> Bremen is a great place, you can sit around, have a hot Grog and chat >> with senators (that's what they call ministers in the city states of >> Bremen, and Hamburg) and there's never a shifty-looking security bloke to >> be seen. >> >> Hamburg and L?beck are similar, must be something to do with their >> Hanseatic heritage. >> >> Sunday was also the first time I've ever had aperture blades sticking and >> Canon electronics refusing to work because of the cold. >> >> Cheers >> Douglas >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >