Fri, 02 Feb 2007
First day in Luxembourg
- The train to Frankfurt is agreeably empty but, as usually, terribly cold! My fingernails are blueish!!
- Yay, Chinese food from a paper box. (I love those. They're classic!)
- Book recommendation of the day: English as a Second F*cking Language (Eek! Bookzilla is down!)
- The next train was an IC. I even got a seat with a power plug.
- The power plug was broken though.
- I noticed when my laptop suddenly went down without warning
- Mental note: Fix acpi!
- The train ride to Koblenz is really beautiful! The steep Rhine banks, the castles, the barges ...
- Mental note: Go there for holidays!
- I took pictures, but don't get them off my camera. Forgot the cable. Damn.
- There are pictures of the event at the event's site though. Also Sven is here, so I trust everything will be documented most exhaustively ;)
- The last train did an "unscheduled stop". Engine trouble. They fixed it rather quickly though.
- Using public transportation in a foreign country is a real challenge. Extra points for doing it in the country's capital, at rush hour, in the dark.
- ... and in French of course.
- WLAN at the Centre Henri Tudor works! only http and ssh though.
- Thank god for tunneling
- Favourite question of the day: "Are you a punk or a hacker?" Answer: "That goes together."
- I met some people and went for a pizza afterwards. Pizza Rucola. Hmm!
- F***ing HUGE hotel.
- It's a sport hotel. It has rubber floors and looks very much like a gym in some places.
- Some of my worst and most humiliating childhood/youth memories feature gyms. Urgh!
- WLAN costs 5 Eu for 24 hrs. Ts!
- The wall is decorated with a reprint of the poster for the 1972 Olympics in Munich. Tasteful. Apparently every room has an Olympics poster. Maybe they should've left this one out.
- There's a sign saying you shouldn't smoke, and another one saying you shouldn't smoke in bed. Heh.
- Good night.
Posted at: 12:16 in /english/travel
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