All aboard for the ride of a lifetime! by jayhawk2000
Christian is not one for the rides, so sitting on a ferris wheel seemed a good option. Okay, so at 60 metres/180 feet tall it's the highest transportable wheel in the world...but it doesn't go fast or make any noise, so what could be scary about it?The wheel has 14,000 lights, 42 cars and needs 28 railway cars to be carried around Europe. It takes about 6 days to go up and 3 days to come down. More info is available in German and English at http://www.riesenrad.de, including the full schedule.Well, we didn't figure on the cars being able to swing back and forth...that, and they aren't closed in so when you get to the top it's very, um, breezy!
I was all set to take photos of the full panorama of the fairgrounds laid out below us, when my digital camera's batteries failed.
So we came back the next night and this time got on board the 'small' ferris wheel in the middle of the fairgrounds. This one didn't rock back and forth... it SPUN!
