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I thought it was TC who said that, but never mind.

So nobody understood the sarcasm in the first post

there, there.. no arguing on who said what, did what, with what and to whom ..

.. topic drift? we've heard of it ..

Hapi, when will you be arriving?

depends on how fast his topic drifts

I thought TC would arrive at 10.44?

I'm fairly sure it was 11.44. TC?

I guess my topic will drift into D'dorf bahnhof around .. mm well .. between 11 and 12? would that do? yeah, leave around .. 10 .. ish?

You've not booked a train? Or a plane?

should I ?? I just thought I'd go to D'dorf and pop up? isn't that what one's supposed to do when traveling?

well.. after all .. I only live an hour from D'dorf

make that 90 minutes

petrol prices .. make that two hours

I thought I would park my car at D'dorf flughafen, and from there hop into D'dorf, then back again to the Flughafen, EEK ?? no ??

I mean .. I mean .. traveling through D wouldn't be that hard to plan, would it?


Ah quite some time ago I thought I would fly into D'dorf flughafen from Farawayishtan .. but pl*ns have changed since then I'm not flying in on Saturday, I'm flying out on Sunday to EEKland

Somehow it never occured to me that anyone could be coming by car

I can still change that if you'd prefer .. but the return flight from EEKland, a week later, arrives a bit latish and DB appears to be unwilling to bring me home at that time of the night

which of course leads me to the next point can I legally drive my (foreign, uncertified, unlabeled, no doubt heavily polluting, not-TUV-certified) car into D'dorf?? If I can then I fear parking there would cost me a few arms and legs? ... I'm a bit attached to my arms and legs ...

Right, I still have to discuss the whole thing with my 'driver'.

your 'driver'? yes of course

I was worried for a split second that my car would need an Umweltplakete to be allowed in or near D'dorf. It doesn't neither do I (legally that is).

yes, my driver

my pilot tells me i have a variety of drivers to choose among after our landing

each of them drive a train

I used to go to school in a Mercedes with chauffeur!

(My physics course was at a different school and we shared a taxi back )

... I must have done several things wrong for a very long time all I ever had was a rusty old bicycle

now I have a rusty old car

and all the private chauffeurs I had made their trains leave too early; before I even got in

I suppose I'd better book a train and find a room, too. First, I'll see if I have a map of Düsseldorf. Only a week to go now!

map of düdorf? i trust my driver to find the way

i should prolly get me some euros and start packing within a week