Warren's European Vacation

		Well, it was a long day, 30 hours from bed to bed. Flight
		took off at 4:00 p.m. in Edmonton to Calgary, then an hour
		and a half lay-over for a 6 p.m. flight that didn't
		actually get started until 7 p.m.

		Then a ten hour flight to Frankfurt which got us in at
		noon, German time.

		Wait for about 4 1/2 hours for the connecting flight to
		Dresden, made it there by 5:30 p.m.

		I got picked up by Peter Gaspar and Robert Leistner from
		the Dresden office and they got me all settled down.

		Asleep by 9 p.m. Whew!

	

At the airport I noticed a Maserati, we don't get those over here in Canada

Maserati displayed in Frankfurt airport

          And then I noticed a McDonald's sign. Something familiar,
		  but yet not!

          And in the restaurant here is what the menu looked like.

	

German McDonald's sign at Frankfurt airport


A German McDonalds menu. A Quarter Pounder is called a Royal in Germany!

          So the next day I show up at work at 7 a.m. which was okay
		  since my internal clock is so screwed up right now, I
		  might as well do something semi-useful since I am up
		  anyway.

          I am starting to really fade by about 4 p.m. But I get a
		  couple of quick pictures of what I get to look at all day,
		  3 castles on the other side of the Elbe River.

	

My view from work


Closer shot of Prussian castle