Miniatur Wunderland Weekly Report
22.05.06 at 12:59 hrs
Weekly Report No 290, CW 20
From Monday, 15.05.2006 to Sunday, 21.05.2006
Not quite up to date anymore since it happened last Saturday but nonetheless an important contribution:
Saturday, 05/13, the HSH-Nordbank - Run took place for the 5th time. Like in the years before, it went through the construction sites of the Hafencity to the Speicherstadt and back. The Miniatur Wunderland participated with a team of 10 and was one of the few teams to arrive as a group; well => it was not really difficult with a run length of only 4 km :-)
467 teams competed. At 12:02 the Wunderland was the second team to tackle the run... For each completed kilometer 1 € went to the Abendblatt (a newspaper) action "Kinder helfen Kindern" (Kids help kids). More than 50,000.-- Euros were collected!
Scandinavia has one more vessel:
The "Cap San Diego" will soon sail the North-East-Sea (right now, the engine and the lighting is missing).
The prototype today serves as a musuem and small hotel. It is moored to the "Ueberseebruecke" (Overseas-bridge) and is a unique piece of a nearly vanished era of seamanship. The freight vessel is located in his old native port of Hamburg since 1986 and is a "hands-on" museum.
If you enter the airport-section in the 4th floor today, you are nearly "drowned" by the massive area, this topic will occupy. The table is levelled out and now reveals how large 150 m² [1350 sqft] ( and this is not the complete area) really are.
In this area, the terminals and and taxiways will be located.
Benchwork for terminals and taxiways
15 Meters (45 feet) endless scenery - enough space for runways!
The "picture of the hour" already revealed it: the sun is shining in the swiss section!
Hmmm, ok, not everywhere but...
... the team around Sven Hinzman still has enough to do!!!
It can happen that the large stairway is closed for the public. In such a case, important work is done - this week, for instance, the missing tiles will be laid at the bottom of the stairs.
The first staging yard for the Swiss sectrion,
which is now safeguarded form dust...
... waits to be built into its final location underneath Switzerland.
