Munich - part 1

Ok, so the whole Munich thing is going to be broken down a bit as there was just too much to talk about in one blog.  So here we are with part 1.

On Monday morning I was out of bed at 3am... I wasn't aware that there actually was a 3am before this week, but apparently there is and it turns out it's too bloody early!!

So anyway, I got picked up at 4am to go to the airport and fly to Munich, and we got to the airport around 5am.  Got checked in and through security, and went to Wetherspoon for a drink. 

The flight out was at 06:20 on EasyJet... first time I'd flown with them, and they're shit.  Unallocated seating on planes is a massive pile of wank.  How hard is it to give people an allocated seat FFS.  Of course not only do EasyJet not have allocated seating, they also don't pull up to airport terminals so everyone was standing in the freezing cold and pouring rain trying to get on the plane.

So the scramble to get on the plane ensues, and everyone tries to push and shove their way around to get the seats they want, and finally the plane takes off. 

We landed in Munich at around 09:30 (local time), and were meant to be getting picked up.  The boss says he told the guy picking us up to be there at 10, the guy says it was 10:30 and in any case we were there at 09:30, so we decided to take the train.

Looking at the train map we needed to get the S8 train, but the S1 train arrived first so the boss decided that'd do and we got on that one, even though it's going the long way.

We got to the exhibition centre around 75 minutes later, and the place was gigantic... 16 halls, over 5500 exhibitors, and I wouldn't like to guess how many visitors would be there over the course of the week.


So we get to our stand, and everything is not quite right with the counter top that the stand company have sent.  It was supposed to be brand new and it was a bit battered and worn.  In the end the fitters managed to recover the situation, and we got the finishing touches on the stand.

To be continued...