Back in January of this year I was sent on a business trip to Germany to spend a few days there to meet with one of our largest clients. It certainly was a long trip from Minneapolis to Chicago, then to Amsterdam, and finally landing in Hamburg.
While it was a chance to go to Europe for my first time ever, I was unfortunately very sick at the same time with a sinus and lung infection. This made flying very painful with the cabin pressure changes. I hope to never experience that again.
So I will share some photos below from the trip staring with a few from the Amsterdam Schiphol airport. Likely one of the largest and nicest airports I have ever been to.
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| Holland Boulevard Lights in Amsterdam Airport. |
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| Closeup of the inside of the Holland Boulevard lights. |
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| Our connecting KLM flight from Amsterdam to Hamburg with the sun just breaking the horizon in the morning. |
After the short flight from Amsterdam, we landed in Hamburg, very tired from the flight. We stayed at the Hotel Hafen in Hamburg with rooms in the tower over looking the harbor.
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| View from my hotel window. |
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| View from my hotel window, ship in dry dock for maintenance in the port of Hamburg. |
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| Interesting space saving bathrooms. |
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| They even had a rubber ducky in the bathroom, but no bathtub. Not sure if was to be used playing in the sink. |
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| View of the hotel room from the bathroom looking over the desk and out the window. |
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| View out the window with the fire escape, which was nice to catch some fresh air and some unobstructed photos from. |
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| Clean room with cable set on the |
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| Small deer mount? |
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| Every room has one of these, yes it is a real apple. As tempting as it was to have when I was sick, the apple was not in the best of condition. |
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| Nice view of landungsbrücken and the port of Hamburg. I did not get to check it out, but there is a tunnel from here to the other side of the port. |
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| Skyline view to the north east. |
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| Across the port you there is a theater putting on the production of The Lion King. |
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| After dinner Jay and I headed back down the walkway to our hotel. |
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| Crepes of course! |
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| Really great looking ship in the port. |
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| Where we stayed, Hotel Hafen Hamburg. Apparently had burned down in the past. They had a beautiful interior and items we would consider delicate and antiques just part of the usable decor. |
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| Another view of landungsbrücken. |
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| Cargo ship moving through the port at night, I like seeing all of those cranes on the horizon. |
