After a long day of traipsing all over Hamburg, And recovering from misdirection, I decided to go back to the art museum and see it again. This time I had no problem finding it and saw the rest of it, check the steeples, they are soo valuable.
Picked up a few curiosities at museum store and headed off to main train station. I was a bit more sure of myself this time. The train station is quite impressive if you know where you are going. It has a large mall attached and one could spend more time than you think wondering the halls looking for S1. I eventually found my way to SI and headed for DESY.
They had a nice reception for collaborators and we meet the classic Greek Professor, I think he even believes that Windex can fix anything! Very funny guy and nice German wife.
We got our picture in front of Argo which is the big collider experiment that DESY had installed In their beam line years ago. Pretty impressive for the era they built it in.
So, far no need or even thought for a car, trains and busses are great and on time. So on time you can be running for one and they will not wait, the next one comes in 10 minutes, so they are real ridge. German scheduling, this is why they are on time. Also we bought one ticket for the whole week, on the trains you do not even have to show it. There are no ticket turnstiles, ticket takers.... Just get on the train. So cool the German people are trained so well, I bet if you were to get asked and not have one the fine is high but it sure makes it easy to access transportation. It would take a lot of tickets to make this work in NY, not sure it would, do not think Americans are trainable in this method.
Hotel we are staying in is very nice, breakfast served in the garden room over looking garden and it is in full bloom. We have not had a day of rain and everyone says it rains all the time. We have been lucky on that score.
Spent the morning shopping for electronics for Ian , went to the Apple store, how cool is that, never been in one, very very helpful so helpful they told me to go to the Saturn store. This place was a five story electronics/ computer store with cheap prices. I am sure quality was not up to apple but neither are the prices. Each floor dedicated to one item almost. Found what I needed, and then found out they did not take Visa or MasterCard, ah oh! But money machine right around the corner. Love those money machines, there goes Haley's tuition!
Braved the main train station and was a lot better this time and headed back to DESY. Had a tour of the labs and lunch, very jealous of the Wirebonder they have. The perfect one for out lab but twice the cost.
Dinner on the San Diego ship down in the harbor. Had a great bus ride tour that took us along beautiful mansions and views of the harbor on the way to the ship. The skyline is full of transport cranes for off loading cargo from freighters and a reverse suspension bridge in the background. Very cool structure.
We had 2 French men sit with us for dinner. Kirk started the conversation with the fact that we loved France, ok, so we had to eat dinner with them so that was a good thing to say before I opened my mouth! I got the cue, shut up Gale! ( no, france is not my favorite place on the planet!) They were very charming and fun to talk to, had kids near the same age as us and gave us lots of tips on our next visit to Paris.
Dinner was delicious, and view fabulous. Talk about "IN Rome......." we ate corn on the cob with a fork! We cut the corn off the cobb, another first! Amazing what you do under pressure!
The sunset real late but was beautiful view over the harbor, did not get home til midnight, another beautiful day in Hamburg!
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