Wroclaw for work - July 25

For work, I finally got to go on a business trip to Wroclaw! I actually like Poland a lot. Despite the rain, Wroclaw had good food at reasonable prices and really friendly people. They also had these little bronze statues of gnomes everywhere. Who knows why... Some sort of city symbol. It's a bit like Ann Arbor's fairy doors.

During this trip, though, I started to wonder what Italians do between work and dinner. My team would get home at around 7:30PM or so (which is a little late for Italians), and hang out for an hour and a half before going out to dinner at 8:30PM. Usually by then, I was STARVING. I guess my stomach's just not on Italian time. What does one do with an hour in a hotel where your Internet doesn't work? Do you go to the gym? Go for a short swim? Go take a nap? half hour naps are never enough for me. I have no idea. We'd always get back at around 10:30PM from dinner and by then, I was too tired to do anything. Long days... I asked a co-worker of mine and they just said "sit around and unwind". I suppose I'm not much of a sit around and unwind type. I still find it strange... and I guess I need to bring more snacks when I travel with these guys.

At the beginning of this trip, our flight was over 4 hours delayed. At first, it was due to an engine issue from the plane. Then it was a bomb threat at the Berlin airport. A bomb threat? I wonder how much of whatever airline attendants say that I should believe. Why would they just delay the airport by a few hours if there was a bomb threat? Was it severe? I wonder if it happens often, since I really haven't heard of airports having bomb threats to the extent that it would delay a flight. To be honest, they could say anything to me and I'd probably have no way to argue otherwise. I guess I'll never know...