Today was another classic post-Oktoberfest day. I did manage to get to the Deutsche Museum though, which has gotta be the best technology museum I have ever been to. Heaps of stuff that has cutaways so you can see how it works. Quite a few interactive exhibits too which was good. Highlights were: an entire U-1 submarine, a massive part of a plane, a ship, lots of nano-technology exhibits and of course the electrical engineering section. So cool to see so much electrical engineering bits and pieces with parts cutaway from them in one place. Super-conducting cable:
Old substation from Berlin complete with trenches and cutaway cable joints:
Generator cross-section:
Now I am on the bus to Prague to catch up with a mate from NZ (Mr Micky P, and his G/F Emma) who have been away for a couple of years. Should be good times. The bus ride is about 6 hours but it turns out they have WiFi so that is cool. It cost 42 euro instead of 65 or so for the train and the down time is always useful to write some bloggy stuff and sort my photos out. Might even get a chance for a wee snooze. I just realised that this is the end of my 2 weeks by myself. Which I cut short by going to see Johannes for Oktoberfest. Win. All in all it was good, but it was pretty hard work. I met some really great people but I guess the question is whether I would have met them if I was with someone else. I think the answer is yes because even when I am with people I know I go and find people I don't, which means that travelling with someone else is always going to be more enjoyable for me than travelling alone. I am sure that I will have to do it again at some stage but I will definately continue to avoid it! I think I gotta convince Gaz to go to Canada so he can do some travelling with me. Hes probably even dumb enough to run places instead of walking just to get there faster!
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