The surprise trip: no one except the organiser knew where we were going. Destination 1: Emden, East Friesland, "Matjes" festival (matjes is young herring)
The "adventurers"
The North-German way to celebrate a 30th birthday for unmarried men: dress in a ridiculous way and sweep the floor in front of the town hall until a girl comes to kiss you free. To shorten the waiting, drinking is allowed ; ) Very funny to watch!
Where is the bus?
Flat land
Meyer dockyard, Papenburg - they just finished the biggest ever German-built cruising ship. This is its sister ship...
2 weeks at home in June: spending time with family and old friends from university...
Celebrating the new "Masters"
Department trip to Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg: oldtimer museum - Beetle de luxek.jpg)
"phaeno" science park: also fun for grown-upsk.jpg)
As usual: Hanover zoo - 2 cute wallabies
Mr Giraffe
My favorite: Mr Lion
Baby elephant
A beauty!
Baby capybara - cute.
Baby gorilla, climbing.
2nd home trip: our own zoo also got bigger, approx. 600% : ) They were really sugar sweet!
Last lunch with my family and Susi who came for a visit
Next Hamburg trip to see a great photo exhibition. Me in front of "Deichtorhallen", in the background: HafenCity, the city's largest construction project ever. Apart from apartments, offices and shops, this entirely new neighborhood is gonna host "Hamburg Symphony", the new opera house which costs a fortune (they started taking money from private donors as the cost is something like double the original budget)
Old and new - Speicherstadt and HafenCity to be
My friend Ania and myself at Jungfernstieg
One of the numerous canals that run through the city
Another old building, somehow antique
Hamburg from the top of St Michaelis church, a nice 82 m above the ground. Here: "Outer Alster" (one of the 3 rivers running through the city which forms a little lake) 
The harbor, among the 3 biggest in Europe.
Sunset in the red-brick town - time to go back to Hanover : )
