Yet Another Howe: My Trip to Germany Day 1: Bremen

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

My Trip to Germany Day 1: Bremen

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As mentioned earlier, I just came back from Berlin, Germany. I took a long time to update this post simply because I was lazy to edit the photos.

If anyone else remembers that I went to Scotland for a week a month ago, well, the pictures aren't even sorted yet.

=D

OK OK I WILL! SOON!

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Germany - Bremen
Day 1

Some useless information from our friends at wikipedia!

Bremen [ˈbʀeːmən] is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany (official name: Stadtgemeinde Bremen / City Municipality of Bremen). It is a port city, situated along the river Weser, about 60 km (37 mi) south from its mouth on the North Sea. Bremen is one of two towns belonging to the state of Bremen (official name: Freie Hansestadt Bremen¹ (Free Hanseatic City of Bremen), referring to its membership in the medieval Hanseatic League), the other being Bremerhaven. In 2005, the population of the city was estimated to be 545,983 (the state with the city Bremerhaven having a population of 664,080), while the metropolitan area of Bremen-Oldenburg has a population of more than 2.37 million. Thus, Bremen is the second most populous city in North Germany and tenth in Germany.

NB. Due to the sheer amount of photos taken during the trip, and I sincerely believe that no one cares about the words anyways, this entry shall be a pictorial entry with minimal descriptions. lol~ THERE ARE SO MUCH PICTURES!!! GRRRRRR

At the airport, taking a GBP10 flight with RyanAir. The planned route is London - Bremen (1 day) - Berlin (3 days) - Bremen (1 day) - London

Just arrived at Bremen. See? Their taxi use Merc one. Wait till all the big bosses in M'sia know about this.

The tram station at the Airport. First time I sit tram leh. Oh yea... I've sat it once in HK. *shrugs*

In the tram from the Bremen Airport to the Bremen city center, which is soooooo close, what? 15 minutes ride? Damn clean la, compared to M...

Few of the many trams rides found in the city.

Tram station that we arrived at in the mid of the Bremen city. I dunno what's the name of the building in front of me lah, I only know it looks nice only. =D this is HDR k?

The focal point of Bremen, the town square. Bremen damn small lah, walk a bit finish d. All the major tourist destinations are clustered together one. The above picture is the famous City Hall of Bremen. [HDR]

Photo of my lengzai self. My hair damn messy lah, the wind strong!

Two guys, a saxo and a guitar buskering on the sidewalk. Damn niceee....

Goods on sale at one of the souvenier shops.

One of the stalls selling sausages in the middle of the square.

The sausage damn long la. costs 1.80 Euro i think.

Random old man who speaks very good English talked to us while we ate. Thumbs up!

Next to the stall ngam got one church. And NGAM got wedding inside. WOOOO GERMAN WEDDING!!! *aggressive-tourist-fighter spirit takes over*

Young is a poser.

After we keluar dari Church tu, kita berjumpa hujan lebat. Tapi kita adalah fighter, thus kita pun terus fighting on gi hostel kita dulu. Bila tiba, aku terusss lompat tas katil saya.

LOL.

random info: *chunhowe changes to shorts*

Another foto of the tram services. So nice lah - clean & easy. Best of all is that you can hope on and off for free, at your own risk thou.

Shortly after the rain stopped, on the high streets of Bremen. [HDR]

At the end of the high st, there were a few artistic scluptures of a shepard and his pigs. Waita minute... pigs need a shepard one meh?

Another part of Bremen, low streets i guess. =P

A take on the picture composition of a water fountain and a church tower.

Young bullying a small German boy.

Young: NAHHHHHHHHHHH *shows legendary awesome fist from 3 years of Korean NS*
Boy *stares blankly* huh?

Posers down at one of the town squares.

In Bremen, there's a street that is famous for being narrow and holding a lot of pubs, restaurants and quirky gift shops.

Further in...

Me with tripod.

Somewhere else, I try a shot at the glaring sun. [HDR]

We push on to the outskirts of the Bremen city central. Great cooling weather then.

One random shot I tried. [HDR]

Young's emo shot. (ok ok overexposed. sorrieee)

From Young's POV.

One of the restaurant signboards. The pig-burst-out-of-sign restaurant.

Practising my chunted camera skills.

Practising again while Young gobbles down a bread roll. WITH MAYO! See who hungry we were!?

After one damn hour, of waiting for something we didn't know (we were gesturing to the special in the menu". The pigs must be fast in Germany I guess.