Aviation Tour - Maps on www.bankleft.com: Hannover

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Hannover

Before she moves south later in the year, we visited Helen's friend Kirsten in Hannover, west of Berlin. We were really pleased to see Kirsten in London last year so it was nice to catch up. Her boyfriend Gerd came up for the weekend too. They are a lovely couple who work in different areas of the same company in the area of GIS – Global Information System, involved with the many applications for computer geographic mapping. Really good stuff.

When Saturday dawned warm and clear, we plucked out the road altas and found a nice local airfield in the hills to the south east for the four of us to fly out to.

Saltzgitter turned out to be the perfect recreational grass airfield, high on a ridge above the small town, with gliding, parascending, radio model slope soaring and a few powered planes like us!

After testing 5 ice cream shops in a row, we decided that;

1. When doing so it is beest to be classy and restrained and order single scoops, not triples

2. Salzgitter is likely to have the largest number of ice cream shops per capita in Germany

3. Ice cream retail is no where near saturation in Australia

4. Italians make the best ice cream

Hannover has a wonderful formal gardens with cactus houses, hedge mazes and sculpture installations. It is several hundred yeras old and truly world class. Seeing orchids reminded me of my grandma and we hatched a plan for an indoor cactus garden in the workshop/garage at the new house.