Germany!
OK, so I went to Germany last week. My company sent me over to try to sell some software. I visited Erlangen which is near Nurnberg (or as we say, Nuremberg) in the south-center of the country, sort of. Here’s the wrap-up:
- Weather: Cold then snow and so really cold. We walked around most of the time though and I liked the cold clean air just fine.
- People: Wonderful, very nice and most everyone speaks enough English to allow us lame Americans to not be forced to learn anything. I tried hard anyway, but as one of my German colleagues actually told me, my Deutsche pronunciation sucks.
- The town: Erlangen is a nice little town with about 100,000 people or so. The two major attractions are the company I worked with and the local University. They work hard to keep the town in the traditional looking buildings and such and I liked that a lot.
- The trains: Great! Ran on time, very modern and well-run system. It’s very easy to buy tickets and ask questions when you’re not sure what the next stop is, or whatever.
- The food: Just fine but I don’t think I’d like to eat German food all the time. They do have Italian, French and other restaurants though and it’s all good quality and reasonably priced. The major drag though is that most restaurants allow smoking and you go home with that awful smell all over you. Yuk.
Overall, I had a good time and enjoyed myself immensely. With any luck I will get the chance to go back someday soon. Here are some pictures I took:
http://picasaweb.google.com/peterries/ErlangenGermany?authkey=80euZnbXRGI
