Compiled From Original Scrapbook Of
David & Jeanne Thomson
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GERMANY, JUNE-JULY, 1997 - INTRODUCTION - PAGE 6
We stopped on our way out of the market to photograph several people going home with their boxes of purchases.
More purchases are carried home. On the right is a most unique automobile, the former East Germany Trabant or Trabby. The Trabby was poorly made and rarely lasted to long due to the poor workmanship but people has no other choice for a car. As a result of the poor manufacturing process, you had to sign up two years in advance for the car and pay for it ahead of time. Then when you car was made you got it.
We arrive back in Hamburg and, like always, I take a photograph of the one of the streets and buildings. A very impressive city. I don't recall exactly how we got the photograph of me and the policeman but I do know I asked Hardy to stop and ask him if we could take his picture with me. He was kind enough to do so.
The church organ is massive! The church's alter is beautiful.
Down in the basement is a small museum, which on one wall was this old map of Hamburg centuries ago. As you can see, like many towns in the middle ages, it has a fortification wall entirely around the town. In the sub-basement we found this burial plot of Carl Phillipp Emanuel Bach, the renown composer.