First 2009 Experiences

Right I am trying to get a quick post in while I am at work as I will be pretty busy over the next few days. First of all I wish a happy new year and all the best to everyone reading this. I hope everyone can easily achieve the aims set. I had a brilliant time in Germany being drinking in the pubs till 7 am while sitting at the bar smoking. Quality country this is. I have to admit that with the current exchange rates it wasn’t a cheap trip especially because I managed to spend £ 150 on a normal drinking night out twice. I am not going to bore you with my drinking stories here as those stories are only fun to read when you were there yourself. I didn’t get the chance to play the amount of Poker I wanted to play as for some reason I could not get a connection to Full Tilt at all from my parents PC. I only played once at my girlfriend’s family’s place two tabling LH $0,5/$1 for 600 hands and a decent profit. I hope to get some more Poker in over the next days but I doubt it as do not really feel like playing at the moment. Maybe that will change when I play tonight with the lads from my pub tourney.

One story I really have to tell here is the story of my disastrous return from Germany. My flight was scheduled to leave on Sunday evening to Newcastle. In the night from Saturday to Sunday it started to snow quite heavy in Germany so we thought we start a bit earlier with the journey to the airport in Hannover which normally is a 2.5 h drive. Unfortunately everyone decided to come back from holidays on this Sunday and go from south back to north which meant that the motorway was so full of people it was unreal. Especially so many Polish people. Where the hell were they going to? Anyway the country roads could not have been used as they weren’t cleared from the tonnes of snow. So we had to stay on the motorway on which we could not go faster than 25 mph for a distance of 150km (93 miles) and sometimes everything completely stood still. This obviously resulted in the normally 2.5h trip taking 7.5 and therefore me and gf missing the plane by 25 mins. They closed airports in four or five different cities that night almost every flight that left was minimum 45 minutes late but our fucking plane left perfectly on fucking time. FFS. That meant that we had to book new flights for Monday which resulted in flying with flybe to Manchester for a sweet £440 for two tickets + £ 100 for a hotel room at the airport. Then all the things tasty and alcoholic things I had in the suitcase which I wanted to bring back made my suitcase weigh 30kg which is 10kg more than allowed. I asked the pisshead at the check in how much I would have to pay for those 10 kg and he said € 13 per Kg. Fuck my life. So I had to get rid of a few things crouching on the floor fiddling in my open suitcase full of dirty clothes and booze in front of about a trillion people. I managed to get it down to 21 Kg and he let it get through. Then he wanted to check my hand luggage which was 6.6kg too heavy so I had to get rid of more stuff as I wasn’t willing to pay their sick overweight prices. Got it down, he checked again, 11kg. This time he didn’t let me get away and I had to unpack again (everything happened beneath the check-in counter) I got it down to 9.8kg and he was satisfied. Now I had about 1 ton of sweets, alcohol (Herb liquor, Obstler), books, bread, sausages and meat to give away. I found a Taxi driver outside and made him a late Christmas present. He was quite happy. I was quite pissed off. Of course this time the flight was delayed one hour! AAARRGHHH
Quite relieved this horror trip is over now. When I go back in May I take my Saxo again and cope with the 16h drive which is still by far more convenient than a trip experience like this. Or I take the ferry, or a fucking Zeppelin or the train or a submarine or a camel or a sleigh with fucking reindeers. I won’t fly by plane.
I try to get back with something positive in the next post. £600 in the bin. Still can’t believe it.

P.S. Sorry Tony, your Frankfurter Sausages have now been eaten by a Hannover Taxi driver.