August 25, 2005
Ahoy There, Mateys
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Finally, some pictures (as usual, click on any picture for a larger version): last night we ended the workday with a group dinner and boat trip down the River Elbe. After three days of glorious summer sunshine (it was warm enough that I wore shorts! In Hamburg!), the weather returned to its usual gloomy gray, and as our boat pulled away from the dock, it started to rain in earnest. Being stalwarts, we braved the deck anyway. Here I am with Blankenese — Hamburg's riverside neighborhood where the rich people live and play — in the background. |
 | After reaching Blankenese, we turned around and started to head back the way we'd came; the rain let up, and we were rewarded with a spectacular riverbank-to-riverbank rainbow. |
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| To cap off the trip, we went for the obligatory round-trip tour of Hamburg's container port. The captain of our ship was pretty much insane; he came so close to a couple of the gigantic container ships that you could reach out and touch them. It was midly disconcerting, but it was the best way to appreciate the titanic scale of operations in the harbor. |
 | A Chinese ship, named after an American city, registered in Hamburg ... the Hanjin Chicago seemed to be having a bit of an identity crisis. |
 | Our intrepid captain came this close to scraping the mast of his radio antenna off against the overhang of the Hanjin Chicago's hull. |  |
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Very cool. :)
Posted by: JJ at August 27, 2005 12:06 PM
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