50K Before Wacken 2012

[Alix]

*sigh* It saddens me to think that this time last year (say 4 hours from now) I was drinking out of a watermelon and playing drinking games with people I had just met, then later got so smashed I couldn't see straight nor walk unaided. I fucking miss Wacken so much

 

[FalscherProphet]

oh yeah, so it would be the best for you to return to wacken next year, I think ?

 

[xforeverxmetalx]

oh yeah, so it would be the best for you to return to wacken next year, I think ?

It's not so easy when you have to fly across an ocean to get there.

 

[Sipyloidea]

It's not so easy when you have to fly across an ocean to get there.

Unlike me who's thinking about biking there tomorrow

 

[Quark]

Unlike me who's thinking about biking there tomorrow

Crazy!

 

[Alix]

oh yeah, so it would be the best for you to return to wacken next year, I think ?

Bloody oath. My next step is to find out if my leave has been approved and buy a Wacken ticket when it goes on sale.

It's not so easy when you have to fly across an ocean to get there.

Let me walk you through it. Left Brisbane international airport at about 3pm on Monday, about 9 hour flight to Singapore international airport, wait around ~3 hours then a ~13 hour connecting flight to Munich, convince passport control that I'm in Germany for a week to party (took about 10 seconds, bloody efficient you lot ) then less than an hour wait for my final 55 minute plane trip to Hamburg arriving at 8am Tuesday local time, catch 2 trains to hotel, die.

I literally slept 15 hours the first day I arrived in Germany. Have you any idea how difficult it is to sleep in a jet plane in Economy Class? Even when Lufthansa tells you when to go to sleep

 

[Alix]

Which is nothing compared to going home.

I finished up my European holiday in London. Stuffed up a bit which left me hanging around Heathrow Airport for 10 hours all by myself (got up at 6am and everything to drop the hire car off). Caught a flight to Frankfurt (I think it must have worked out cheaper to get a return flight to Germany and add the other stuff in between), then back to Singapore and waited around for 5 hours (which turned out to make no difference time-wise) then get home arriving at 6:30am Saturday local time and back to work on Monday.

 

[xforeverxmetalx]

Let me walk you through it. Left Brisbane international airport at about 3pm on Monday, about 9 hour flight to Singapore international airport, wait around ~3 hours then a ~13 hour connecting flight to Munich, convince passport control that I'm in Germany for a week to party (took about 10 seconds, bloody efficient you lot ) then less than an hour wait for my final 55 minute plane trip to Hamburg arriving at 8am Tuesday local time, catch 2 trains to hotel, die.

I literally slept 15 hours the first day I arrived in Germany. Have you any idea how difficult it is to sleep in a jet plane in Economy Class? Even when Lufthansa tells you when to go to sleep

Which is nothing compared to going home.

I finished up my European holiday in London. Stuffed up a bit which left me hanging around Heathrow Airport for 10 hours all by myself (got up at 6am and everything to drop the hire car off). Caught a flight to Frankfurt (I think it must have worked out cheaper to get a return flight to Germany and add the other stuff in between), then back to Singapore and waited around for 5 hours (which turned out to make no difference time-wise) then get home arriving at 6:30am Saturday local time and back to work on Monday.

I hate trying to sleep in flights. Depending on how tired I am, usually all the sleep I get is in small chunks of 5-30mins at a time, at best. Which sucks, because sleeping is the best way to pass the time. It's still a good 9-10hrs from here, and that's if you manage to get nonstop (which I can and have before, Atlanta's a major airport). But I pretty much figured you guys have it even worse.

 

[Alix]

There was loads to do on Singapore Airlines. Excluding the bits where my legs turn to bricks they were enjoyable flights even though I never slept a wink. I can't decide whether to go Lufthansa again or another airline cos their planes are older (therefore less awesome) but they did turn the lights off at "night" and I managed 2 hours on the way there and 5 hours on the way back. Having said that it doesn't take much of a chunk from a 13 hour flight.

 

[Sipyloidea]

Still wondering if I should bike there today

 

[Alix]

Do it.

 

[xforeverxmetalx]

There was loads to do on Singapore Airlines. Excluding the bits where my legs turn to bricks they were enjoyable flights even though I never slept a wink. I can't decide whether to go Lufthansa again or another airline cos their planes are older (therefore less awesome) but they did turn the lights off at "night" and I managed 2 hours on the way there and 5 hours on the way back. Having said that it doesn't take much of a chunk from a 13 hour flight.

Lucky. The best I got was a couple in-flight movies. I think I watched two. Or parts of two. Besides that, we pretty much had to entertain ourselves.

 

[Quark]

Still wondering if I should bike there today

Don't!

If the crazyness can be found on the BELGIAN Metro (= newspaper, not the subway, Metronoom or whatever you might think), it ends all there.

 

[Quark]

Do it.

No. Reasons as shown before.

 

[Alix]

I don't get it