Goodbye San Francisco, hello Frankfurt
Alright, my bags are packed and I am about to leave… tomorrow morning. Rumor has it it’s snowy in Germany which feels kind of unreal considering how sunny the Bay Area is at the moment.
Just so I know what’s expecting me in Germany (in case I forgot), Jean Pierre sent me a link to 20 things to keep in mind when visiting Germany, a quite funny list of things you might (well, you will) stumble across when you make it to my home country.
Things I am looking forward to? The food. The beer, obviously. Spring and summer. Some of my classes. Making more music again (my trumpet really does want to get played more often than recently!). German folk festivals. That the price on the shelves is actually what I have to pay. The metric system. Buildings with walls that actually deserve the name. Public transportation that works. The autobahn and people who know how to drive stick (no offense 
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Things I am not looking forward to? The cold weather! Some of my classes! Gas prices. Closed stores on Sundays. Bad customer service, at times. Kind of a shortage on the “free wifi” front. Dubbed TV shows. 19 % sales tax.
As you see, I am all set — except for that “proud to be an American” t-shirt morgamic wanted to get me, of course 
Cheers!
(The picture is CC-licensed by caribb on flickr, and it’s purely symbolic: my plane(s) are not even going to be Airbuses)
The image in this post causes a bad-cert dialog when loading planet.mozilla.org.
This page has insane tabindex attributes, so when I try to post a comment, Tab goes back and forth between the fields of the comment form and the fields of the search form.
I hope all your training in to Google lap pool was worth it, because that’s a heck of a trip!
Jesse: Thanks for the info; I removed the https from the URL. (It’s not a bad cert, but Firefox doesn’t have the Root Cert by default). I’ll also look at the tabindex issue soon.
Justin: “Swim across the Atlantic”? That’s funny
Hey Fréd!
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I wish you a nice journey and good luck resocializing with German culture (I mean I would have some strategies for you how to do it
Hey Markus, I am all ears — we should talk on the phone some time when I am back home so you can tell me all about it
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