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Arrived in Baltimore

wnagele — Fri, 18 May 2007 08:36:35 +0000

After an all-night party regarding the world telecom day 2007 invited by tins (former co-worker of mine). I dropped by the vienna airport at about 6am yesterday.

After the usual check-in procedure we headed over to our flight to Frankfurt. Arrived in Frankfurt at about 9am we had to do the re-routing of Aarons ticket via Boston. This took quite long and Aaron almost missed the flight to Philadelphia. But he finally catched it and we had a 1 hour delayed start in Frankfurt. Therefor we missed our connection in Philadelphia but a very nice woman of US airways rebooked us for the next flight which was about 2 hours later. Finally we arrived at about 8:30pm in Baltimore and surprisingly our luggage also made it. We headed over to Marriot and had a shower. Befor going to bed we grabbed our first US burger (it’s tradition already ) and felt asleep.

Milano party trip

wnagele — Wed, 02 May 2007 09:24:04 +0000

Last weekend had a bridging day for Austria. So Roland, Bijan, Gerhard and myself went for a short trip to Milano/Italy. Our main purpose (at least mine) was to make some party down there. I was also thinking about some shopping and sightseeing.

So on friday about 4pm we started our trip to Bratislava from where our Ryanair flight would departure. Trip started with a nice traffic jam in Vienna – but we came through quite well and headed down highway 4 direction Bratislava. Somewhere behind Schwechat the signs for Bratislava dissapeared – but no problem, we had our card from Google Maps with us. At least we thought. Somewhere near Bruck/Leitha we were wondering why there are really no signs to Bratislava anymore – Google Maps told us we should head over to highway 6 somewhere behind Bruck/Leitha. Well, looking on the card we came to the curve where the exit should be. In fact there was one big building site saying that here will be a highway 6 sometime. Dude, i was pissed. We already lost a lot of time through the traffic jam now this. So i popped up my laptop figuring out it would take us 22 minutes from here to Bratislava airport (Thanks map24.com!). Our checkin-desk would close in about 25 minutes. Tough! However we really got there and also could check-in (but without any luggage except our hand one). So i had to throw away a lot of cosmetics.

But nevertheless our flight started about 45 minutes late and so we arrived in Milano at about 8pm and headed over to our hotel which was really nice and cheap. It was about 15 minutes by feet from the Milano cathedral.

The next days were filled with a lot of walking, sightseeing, partying and enjoying this lovely city. Milano is definitely worth a trip. I uploaded some photos on my flickr account.

Heading to San Diego

wnagele — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 07:36:44 +0000

I’m writing this from Vienna airport.

We’re currently sitting in the boarding area waiting to get on our plane to Paris. I’ve had a party with some friends yesterday and made the night through. Therefore i have already my 3rd mocca inside. I hope to catch at least some hours of sleep on our way to LA. *tired*