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Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
First day at the International Furniture Fair (IMM) in Cologne. I’ve been to the Interzum a few times and expected this to be a smaller show. I was wrong. This one is gigantic. And I don’t recall seeing this many visitors at the Interzum either. Truly remarkable.
After some meetings and walking the floor for several hours, I had a chance to take the S-train over to downtown. Approaching the Köln Hauptbahnhof, situated right next to the Dom, is always an impressive sight. Both building are downright intimidating.
I have a late dinner with a customer tonight, so I stopped at small family establishment close to the cathedral for a bowl of tasty cream/paprika soup and Kölsch to carry me over the afternoon. I also scored a couple of small beer glasses to take home!
Ticket to Munich was booked and I’m ready to head down to Bavaria tomorrow.
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Friday, January 14th, 2011
Ambien: It didn’t work this time. I was waiting for something to happen, but it never did. It turned out to be just another sleepless ten-hour flight to Europe.
Getting from Schiphol Airport to Amsterdam Centraal was a breeze. Schiphol has a full fledged-train station below the terminal, from which you can go anywhere in Europe, including downtown Amsterdam. Comparing this train to Portland’s MAX is like comparing a brand new Audi to a horse and buggy. It’s fast and extremely quiet.
I had booked a hotel within walking distance from the train station in Amsterdam. My room is tiny, but clean, which is all that matters.
After getting settled in and taking a much-needed shower, I walked back to the train station to buy a ticket for Hannover tomorrow. I also managed to score a cheap SIM-card to avoid AT&T’s scam on international travelers. Free incoming calls and roughly 15 cents/minute to call the U.S. Compare that to AT&T’s $0.99/minute for both incoming and outgoing calls.
After an early dinner, I’ve retired to the hotel and will try to make it until 7 o’clock. Going on 27+ hours without sleep now and this bed feels really good.
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Saturday, November 20th, 2010
The promised race report never appeared and now it’s too late to post anything.
I haven’t had the time or the energy to dabble much with website work in a while but I did get around to uploading some old pictures (from April) to our SmugMug account today (click here to view).
I know some friends drop in here from time to time. For now, I’m posting tweets. The column on the right only lists the last five tweets but if if you click on the title (the one that says “Tweets”) you’ll go straight to my Twitter account. This serves as a mini-blog for now. As for Facebook, I’m giving serious thought to shutting down my account.
Come January, I’m heading to Europe for a week and should have some cool pictures and travel anecdotes. Until then, I’ll try to get some more pictures (and maybe a video or two) up.
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