Royal Welcome
19 Jul 2004
The world's largest and most expensive passenger ship, the Queen Mary 2, came to Hamburg for 24 hours, and it seems the entire city (plus a couple hundred thousand guests) played hooky on Monday to celebrate. School is on vacation, the weather was, well, acceptable (cloudy, cool, muggy, but dry), and it was a good excuse for a party. Hamburg has seen a lot a ships, but never anything like this.
We (especially Christopher) had a hard weekend, so we skipped the celebration, settling for the view from the Elbbrücken on the way to work, the television footage, and the dozens of pictures online.
