Another great reason to visit Germany is the great Water Bridge (photo shown above and was taken during the day of inauguration). The 918 meters long channel-bridge took 6 years to finish and costs 500 million euros. This bridge over the River Elbe joins the former East and West Germany. This is part of the unification project of the once two part Germany. This bridge located in the city of Magdeburg, near Berlin, is one display of great engineering and design.
A trivia was attached on the e-mail and here it goes:
To those who appreciate engineering projects, here's a puzzle for you armchair engineers and physicists. Did that bridge have to be designed to withstand the additional weight of ship and barge traffic, or just the weight of the water?
Answer:
It only needs to be designed to withstand the weight of the water! Why? A ship always displaces an amount of water that weighs the same as the ship, regardless of how heavily a ship may be loaded. Remember your high school physics, and the fly in an enclosed bottle project? Similarly, the super sensitive scale proved that it didn't make any difference whether the fly was sitting on the bottom, walking up the side, or flying around. The bottle, air, and fly were a single unit of mass and always weighed the same.
For those of you who would want to visit the bridge in Germany, I recommend that you book online for hassle-free vacation. Booking online is cheaper and much more convenient and you can choose a much wider kind of accommodations and hotels in Berlin that suits your taste and budget as compared to booking on your local travel agencies. While you are in Berlin you may also check out other hot spots like Pergamon Museum, Brandenburge Gates, and Schloss Charlottenburg. Accomodations and hotels in Deutschland are also easy to book online if you want to visit Bavarian Alps, Leipzig, Lubeck and other hot attractions in Germany.
When you are on the area, try to check out Vienna attractions like the Schonbrunn palace, Hofburg and Heldenplatz museums. Online booking in Wien hotels is just a click away so it would be so easy. When you are at it, also try hotels in Muenchen if you’d like to visit Marienplatz, Rathaus-Glokenspiel, and the Olympic village.
Traveling and visiting that part of the world is really exciting, lots of attractions and hot spots to unravel right before your eyes. Whether you want to see the Water Bridge in Berlin or visit the Olympic Village in Munich I’m sure you’re going to cherish your getaway especially when you don’t have to worry about your accommodation and transportation.
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