This summer I took a train to Hamburg for the first time. Hamburg has more bridges than Venice, Amsterdam and London combined. The St. Pauli Reeperbahn is where the Beatles got their start playing in small clubs. (It’s pretty seedy in the daytime, but I did spot the life-sized silhouettes of the Fab Four.)
The one thing my friend Diana was insistent on seeing was the Miniatur Wunderland. This is the world’s largest model train museum.
Layout size: 1,490 square meters or 16,038 square feet.
The rooms go dark for part of each hour and the exhibits light up!
Now take a look at the SCALE….
The people who built these models must have great senses of humor. You have to squint anyway to take in all the details (260,000 figures! 130,000 tiny trees!). But when you begin to look you see the funniest things.
I’ll end this with my personal favorite: A boat on Venice’s Gran Canale filled with wild animals.
NOTES: ©2024 Jadi Campbell. ©2024 Photos Diana Lopez and Jadi Campbell. Uwe’s photos of our trips and his photography may be viewed at viewpics.de.
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