Sunday, January 27, 2008
England
I just came back from a business trip to Bath/England.
We stayed in a very famous and old hotel in the famous city of Bath - which seems to be famous for it's breakfast. Sadly we didn't really have time to enjoy it.
"Breakfast will be served from 8 to 9 AM during winter time. Contact the receptionist for an early breakfast."
So we asked the receptionist if we can have an early breakfast because the plan was to leave at 7:30 AM.
"Yes we can offer you a breakfast ten minutes before 8 AM. But it will be toast and tea only."
Lesson learned:
Don't be a business traveller in a hotel for tourists.
Especially if you need to drive at least 30 minutes to get to the office.
Bath is a nice city (I took a few pictures and will post them later).
We stayed in a very famous and old hotel in the famous city of Bath - which seems to be famous for it's breakfast. Sadly we didn't really have time to enjoy it.
"Breakfast will be served from 8 to 9 AM during winter time. Contact the receptionist for an early breakfast."
So we asked the receptionist if we can have an early breakfast because the plan was to leave at 7:30 AM.
"Yes we can offer you a breakfast ten minutes before 8 AM. But it will be toast and tea only."
Lesson learned:
Don't be a business traveller in a hotel for tourists.
Especially if you need to drive at least 30 minutes to get to the office.
Bath is a nice city (I took a few pictures and will post them later).
Monday, January 21, 2008
Something completely different
The German Bundestag now implemented the public petition.
This means that you can also sign a petition entered by someone via internet.
There now is a petition that I also signed as I can fully support this. For half a year now a foreign citizen that marries a German has to make a German language certification to be allowed to enter the country.
This is just plain stupid.
So if you are a German citizen you might want to sign this petition here:
http://itc.napier.ac.uk/e-Petition/bundestag/view_petition.asp?PetitionID=598
And I found the link here: http://www.lawblog.de/index.php/archives/2008/01/21/links-einhundertneunundneunzig/
This means that you can also sign a petition entered by someone via internet.
There now is a petition that I also signed as I can fully support this. For half a year now a foreign citizen that marries a German has to make a German language certification to be allowed to enter the country.
This is just plain stupid.
So if you are a German citizen you might want to sign this petition here:
http://itc.napier.ac.uk/e-Petition/bundestag/view_petition.asp?PetitionID=598
And I found the link here: http://www.lawblog.de/index.php/archives/2008/01/21/links-einhundertneunundneunzig/
Labels: Germany
Monday, January 07, 2008
Cold!
Well packed in the cold German winter.
Munich Winter Impressions
These are some pictures taken at the bigger lake nearby our home in the North of Munich:
The signs at the lake said that the ice is not safe and that it would be dangerous to walk on there. Seems some people didn't really care...
Christmas Tree II
This is how the tree looked like yesterday evening:
A little bit later:
A little bit later:
Some more minutes later:
And that's left of the tree:
It was nice to have a Christmas tree and I guess we'll have one next year. The only bad thing is that I still have to pack 100 lamps from the tree decoration.
Labels: Christmas, Germany, Munich
Christmas Tree I
So this is how our Christmas Tree looked like on the day before Christmas:
This is how it looked like on Christmas Eve:
This is how it looked like on Christmas Eve:
