G20 in Brisbane: Selfie with aunt Angela Merkel

Brisbane - the G20-Gipfel in Brisbane began just with the official greetings - and chancellor Angela Merkel is already for many Australians the heroine of the meeting: On the way to its hotel it stopped on Friday evening before several pubs and posed readily for Selfies with the guests. In the photos, which spread racing fast over Twitter and Facebook, it plugs the heads together with strange humans and laughs into dozens of mobile phone cameras.



Merkel stays overnight in Brisbane in the Gambaro hotel at the popular party mile Caxton Street. When it left its car and toward pubs ran, the passerbies were jubilant so enthusiastically, as if it was a rock star. “Ways of the police presence we knew the fact that a state guest comes, but we thought, it was certainly someone from Burma”, reports Sarah Keayes, which works as a Fotografin for the newspaper “Courier mail” and privately in the Caxton Street a beer drinks was.

Most other heads of state and government let themselves drive in their armored vehicles with dark disks cord TRACKs into the hotels. Native gotten practically none of the high state guests to face - and were all the more enthusiastic by the appearance of the chancellor. “Aunt Angela has unbelievably charisma”, commentates a reader on the web page of the newspaper “Courier mail”.