Both Katrin and I are complaining of sore feet after walking around all day. However I had a great time and I hope she did as well.

We started in the model railway exhibition and, seriously guys, you just have to come and see it. An ET meetup. Cos it's just amazing. I spent the first hour just laughing at how good it was, many small gags thrown around, lots of car crashes to highlight that rail transport is better. And lots and lots of trains.

And an airport. That works, with planes taking off.

Two and a half hours and I bet we missed half of the stuff.

then walked around the Hanseatic/Hamburg museum. And that had a train set as well.

now building up the enthusiasm to go pub crawling

keep to the Fen Causeway

Just back from Warsaw. Not that I needed it necessarily,  but it's quite a reminder of what Europeans can do to themselves (all the more since I visited the uprising museum on the day that they had the veterans for the anniversary celebrations).

Now in Munich (very pretty place, by the way). Soon after arriving, our host (a Frenchman married to a German) stated "the thing is that Germans have had enough of paying for everyone else's follies, and they are right!". Also, though he had personally opposed the Maastricht treaty (to his credit, I guess), he claimed that "but then the other countries did not play by the rules that they had just agreed to".

Oh well...

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi

There's a video gaming podcast I follow.  The most recent episode had a sort of trivia quiz segment.  I thought one of the questions might be amusing in the context of ET.

The newly announced New Super Mario Brothers 2 gives Mario the chance to collect 1 million gold coins.  Given the apparent monetary base of Bowser's kingdom, what economic school would he most likely support?

a - Neo-Keynsian
b - Chicago
c - Austrian

None of the contestants got it right.