Sunrise over the railway in Regensburg. I caught the first train of the morning to München.
A full moon seen from the courtyard of the Google offices in München. This is my home for the next week.
Last week aliens abducted one of Google's 'O's. I think I found it.
This pedestrian underpass had four escalators. Maintenance of these exposed machines must have been prohibitive, so they were turned into planters.
The Deutsches Museum displays an old punchcard-driven Jacquard loom next to its descendant, a modern computer-controlled loom.
The nose section of the Graf Zeppelin.
This V-2 rocket is positioned in the middle of a spiral staircase. Notice the tear-drop shaped bulge on the fin. I wouldn't have thought much about it had I not seen the reverse side...
...the reverse side has had its cover plate removed, revealing a bicycle sprocket which connects an electric motor to the fin's movable control surface. A really elegant design.
Deep in the basement of the museum is a pressure suit hidden behind some other equipment. If I ever have a child, I just figured out what his/her first Halloween costume is going to be.
The swastika is very sensitive in Germany. The Messerschmitt 262 in the museum had this symbol painted off the tail, the postcards of the Hindenburg airship in the gift shop had the symbol airbrushed out, and this model of the Bismarck battleship had the symbol altered to look more like a Microsoft Windows logo.
The Dachau concentration camp is a short distance from München by train. After seeing American tourists line up to take photos of each other in front of the "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign and the crematoria, I decided to only take the one photograph.
As I stepped off the train returning from Dachau, I heard Jewish fiddle music being played in the street. I thought that was so very very appropriate.
