Thursday am 5:00 clock. The alarm clock rings. What idiot made the alarm clock at 5? Slowly I wake up and realize that I was the crazy man himself. I have to get out of bed quickly, because in half an hour it starts to Finland. First, with the first tram to central station to Bonn, then by regional train to the airport in Dusseldorf. Iff all goes well, I'm on the clock check-in counter at 7:30. Everything went well and I get up at seven fifty-five ready to fly in the departure hall. The flight to Helsinki is at 9 clock. Time enough, then, to first have breakfast extensively. For Goliteratur it is too early, but a newspaper without coffee vekraftet my brain but switched to emergency power already. For the flight itself, I made me a book titled 'senses of Finns' . One wants to come prepared to the north. The reading I recommend to everyone, because as he learns a lot about the neighbors in the north of Europe: "They live in the far north. You are constantly in the sauna. Million have cell phones and live with billions of mosquitoes. They speak little, and only after long pauses. The Finns are a quirky and funny little people."
clock 13:20, the plane landed without major incident, however, with 1 hour delay in Helsinki. Just once, I thought my neighbors would throw up, but then he caught himself after all. Lucky. Since I have only hand luggage, it goes very quickly to the exit. Maybe a little too fast, because the next bus to Tampere leaves until about an hour. I'm hungry and looking first for inserting what. Well, that Finland belongs to the Euro zone and I do not even have to change money. When it comes to Tallinn on Tuesday, things look different. The Finnish do not speak, I'm glad that everything is signposted in English. I authorize the second coffee of the day and would now actually fit for the first Gopartie. Tampere But more than two hours bus ride away, and far and wide, no serious rival to discover.
dips against 14:20 clock at last on the bus. I pay and get in, hoping to catch another 1-2 hours of sleep at night foregone. The idea was good, the implementation sucks. Although the roads are good, the bus rattles so much that I easy to get a wink. I tired to meet shortly before four in Tampere City. Since I had the day before the Satdt viewed with Street View on Google Maps, I know roughly where I long have. One can say about Google, what you want. As data octopus, the company is a sheer monster, but to virtually run with 360 ° lens through the streets of Tampere, which already was! Anyway, I go stomp towards congress center. The newly purchased Trolley makes no goat, and it's a nice walk in the bright sun. The forces are returning. Maybe I missed even a good amount of oxygen.
Registration is on a little tough to pay Schlater. Organizers were not well prepared that the participants can arrive even in the middle of the week. I try to sign up for the games on Friday and Monday. It even works flawlessly. This would be done and the most important thing to me now seven conference games are in four days. The first known faces appear and say hello . Here and there a chat is kept before my mind that I still must check in at hotel. Three-kilometer march to separate the venue from the hotel. I wonder what is probably bus in Finnish. Since I've been sitting all day but enough, I decide, but to walk. Another half hour later, I stand before my Accommodation, which I had also been looked at before yesterday by Street View.
The hotel is small but nice and I'm quite happy with the accommodation. In the evening it is still in the Go Congress tavern where Congress meets people for lack of alternatives. The place closes at 22 or 23 clock and there is also no way to dinner or to buy a drink. No matter'm already tired and say goodbye soon towards chest. On Friday it is then really started for me.
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