unshift @{$yapc-{day}}, 'day before';

cwest on 2002-09-18T07:19:03

Yesterday was a good day. Got off the plane safely, found the train station, got a train, found my hotel, and found YAPC::EU without troubles. I stayed at The Venue till about 18:00 when I left with Allison, Hugo, and Damian for non-werst foods.

We found a wonderful Italian place. I've obviously never had real Italian food because this looked nothing like anything I've ever seen and it tasted orders of magnitude better.

Update: I should mention that, for the first time in my life, I managed to go into the Ladies bathroom to relieve myself. You see, of all the words I looked up and learned before I set foot here, I forgot "Man" and "Woman". I now know that Damen is not German for "men".

Then we went for ice cream and met up with some Belfast.pm folks I met at Perl Whirl. That was great fun. Again, I must have never had real ice cream befire, even the ice cream is better here.

Finally Hugo, Belfast.pm, and I went to find the gastolf. I forced myself out after saying hi because I desperatley needed to sleep. I'm glad I did that because the sleep was much needed. The walk back to my hotel was interesting in the same way a walk to your hotel in New York is interesting.


Damen und Herren

waltman on 2002-09-18T13:58:48

I thought you said you were going to learn some German on your flight! Now I feel a little guilty for teaching you how to decipher a German beer menu, but not how to choose the right restroom. :)