Bonn booming despite losing capital status

A decade ago, when Germany's chancellor and the country's parliamentarians packed up to move to Berlin, the future seemed bleak for the small Rhineland city of Bonn they left behind.

Today, Matthias Schultze, who works in Bonn for a US-Korean project developer, sees a buzzing new city when he looks out of his office window in the building that used to house Germany's parliament.

Forty years after John le Carre set his thriller A Small Town in Germany in Bonn, the city that was West Germany's Cold War capital is still home to six ministries and a new cluster of information technology and development groups.