Europe Part 6

Day 9

Woke up in the morning, had good breakfast again at the Osterhaus hotel in Osnabruck. Then we hit the road to Hannover.

Upon arriving, I was astounded by the amount of TRAFFIC and LIMITED parking spots. Luckily, after driving around for a while, we found an area that had plenty of parking spaces, although quite a long walk.

So we used our E-tickets and headed straight to Hall 25, which is drivetrain section. Our specialty. Our job was to check the competition and future possible collaboration with other companies. It was quite an amazing sight to see upon entering. It was much bigger than the Shanghai PTC show that I attended back in November.

A view from 2nd floor catwalk:

Upon walking a few metres, I found something I just HAD to try:

A go-kart simulator!
Unfortunately, it was quite disappointing. Pedals don't work, it was very unrealistic and very boring. BOO off we go!

But this little monkey was quite entertaining!

It was lifting weights!
Powered by the little electronic motor underneath, it was quite a funny sight.

So we walked around for a few hours, checked out other driveshaft manufacturers' booth. After that we got tired and the exhibition was closing soon. Who knew there'd be so much walking and especially when we were wearing pretty uncomfy dress shoes, damn!

So then... We had a huge problem... All the hotel in the area was fully booked or ridiculously expensive (about 350 EURO!!). After calling around, we found a place called "Niemeyers Posthotel". It was decent 110 EURO for a night. One problem... it was 75km and 1 hour and half away because of no highway. But we had no choice, so off we go!

On the road to the hotel, we encountered some nice sunset scenery.


This little single lane road... had no speed limit... That VW in front of me was going 160km/h, I was just keeping up with traffic :)


Passed by this little nice town, but we still had a long way to go...



Finally, we arrived at the hotel. Checked in. It was pretty nice, I'd say probably 5 star rating due to service and room quality, not bad for 110 Euro.

But it was 10pm already and we had not eaten dinner yet so we were a starving.

We walked to next door a little restaurant. But for the love of god, dammit I can't remember the name. I was served with probably the best food I've ever had in Europe!



It consisted of two pieces of pork, one piece of beef with vegetables in a pan. Then we also had a separate pan of Potato Skillets. Each piece of meat had their own sauce, as you ate along, the sauces slowly started to get mixed together adding on to the taste. Goddamn, it was SO good. Blogging about this is making me hungry... damn.

After stuffing ourselves, we headed back to the hotel and called it a day.