I am staying at a place called the Hotel Servatius in Koln-Marheim. Address is Servatiusstr. 73; 51109 Koln. Telephone for it is 0221-890030. I arrive 30 Aug and check out on the 2 Sept early.
They have me listed under the name Todd. Just Todd. I don't know why as I emailed my complete name.
Anyone here live in Guangzhou China? I am there from 27 Aug to 29 Aug.
Cool sidenote. Because I basically have to fly all around the world for this trip (leave Canada to Hong Kong via the pacific then on to Dubai and Germany via London and finally back to Canada via the Atlantic) I will be spending something like 60 hours in planes. I have travelled enough to know that infight movies and food are pretty lame after 3 or 4 hours in the air so I decided to buy some inflight entertainment. I have a few books and aviation magazines to read, but I should be done them well before my flying is over.
So today I bought a small Koss CD player and headphones and was looking for some music CD's to play when I found a "book" on CD. It is the latest Harry Potter book (I like the series as light reading) and the best part is it is 23 hours long. I listened to the first 5 minutes and it is a great reading by a English accented narrator. So now I can dig into my own supply of inflight snacks close my eyes and listen to the book whenever I get to bored out of my scull.
I am flying on 5 airlines for the trip (Cathay Pacific, Lufthansa, China Southern, Emerates Airlines, and Air Canada), I will post my impressions of each when I get back.
I purposly avoided any American airline this time as I have not been comfortable reading about the attempts to bring one down by SAM and other means recently.
