Well, not quite the CeBIT bits yet, but rather, some pictures of the place I stayed at, as well as a surprise snowfall on the first morning i was there. Enjoy!
This was taken on the morning of the second day, right before I roamed into the halls. This is one of the few restaurants inside the fairground, located right next to the main entrance.
Snow, baby. While this isn’t technically the first real snow i’d experienced, this was the first actual full-on snowfall i’d seen with my own eyes. I did see some snow last year, but it was so light that the snow had disappeared once it touched the ground, resulting in a wet, dirty slosh. This time around, it was the white stuff all the way baby. I might look all warm in my jacket, but my balls were quite literally freezing. The temperature: -7 degrees Celcius.
A nice shot of the tram tracks all covered in snow.
This is the house we stayed at, owned by a couple going by the name Fiks. Lovely people, very warm and friendly. Sadly, no pictures of them. Totally forgot to get them to snap a couple of pics with us, as we were only really ‘home’ in the mornings and at night. This was taken on the third day. No more snow, unfortunately, at least from the sky. Over the next couple of days. all the snow would gradually melt away. One of the people manning the booths in CeBIT told me that this was the first snowfall he’d seen in March, as according to him, snow usually only comes around December.
This is the view from my room window. You can imagine my suprise when I woke up to a world gone white. This is probably one of the best ways to wake up, ever.
Feet, snow. Snow, feet.
Look closely, and you’ll see the snow blowing past. Cold, I can take, but when there’s wind blowing at the same time, it’s a whole different kettle of fish. Windchill is no joke.
One quick shot of a portion of the fairground. The place is simply massive. Walking from one end to the other will easily take half an hour, hence the need for vans and vehicles to ferry people back and forth. There were plenty of internal buses and vans for journalists and visitors, but since most of the halls I wanted to visit were clustered close together, I opted to walk. Besides, standing at the designated pickup points in that kind of cold is not something I wanted to do.
It’s about 2.40 a.m. already, so i’ll stop here. More pics from the stash coming later, when I have the time to sit in front of Photoshop and crop everything to hell and back.
