[Leica] An ice-cold stroll around Bremen last Sunday

[Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)]

This one:

Nothing like that here.

Jim

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
> 
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