Andy's Mind

There is something worth looking at here – women. And I mean not only at the fair itself (sometimes it was hard to concentrate on the equipment shown), but also on the streets of Hanover. It’s still something you can see more frequently in Germany than any other country I do know – beautiful, classy and shapely longhaired blondes. Years of racial mixing in Europe didn’t change some general differences between the countries – and thank goodness for that. The only problem is that, of course, they mostly speak German. Funny that with this supply of beauty Lufthansa is somehow not able to hire at least decent looking stewardesses.

I’m in Germany now and I was walking around the CeBIT fair grounds yesterday. I was getting hungry but being a bit jet-lagged from my flight from the US and wanting to see as much as I could before the tiredness would catch up with me I postponed going to one of the many restaurants on the fair grounds. I walked into one but it was full of cigarette smoke. I went to an information desk and asked whether they have any smoke-free restaurant on the fair grounds. The young crew discussed between themselves in German and then one of them replied that there is none – smoking is permitted everywhere. To my visible surprise they added that Germany is a smoking-friendly country. But I digress… (more…)

I didn’t write anything for a few days as I was mostly moving around and didn’t have an easy access to Internet – only yesterday I did figure out how to connect my computer through my hosts’ cable modem. In that time I drove more then 630 miles / 1000 kms, walked extensively through the center of Washington, DC and made a drive along the Chesapeake bay’s Maryland shore down to Point Lookout. I don’t think it makes sense to list all the things I did see, instead I’ll share with you some of my thoughts. (more…)

Briefly, because I have to run to explore some more, though it’s so cold that despite great sun I would stay mostly indoors – MOMA and American Museum of Natural History are the highlights of my today’s plan. (more…)