Cucuhouse blog: Deutschland: part 1

And the winner is….Deutschland! Yes, after going out Thursday and Friday there was not much time to look for a place to stay during my planned trip to Interlaken. Marek, a friend that I met in London last summer, was coming to Basel Saturday afternoon, and I was supposed to meet him with two more friends to have dinner and some drinks around 6pm. I was in the middle of a crisis looking for a bed in the Swiss mountains when he proposed me to forget about Switzerland and expand a bit my geographical scope for my 3 days trip. And it was a great idea! Initial plan: Go to Düsseldorf Sunday morning with Marek in his car, sleep there, visit Cologne (Köln)Monday morning and take a train to Frankfurt to see Huy, sleep in Frankfurt, have a walk there in the morning and go to Heidelberg to meet my cousin Alberto, visit the old part of town and then come back to Basel at a prudent time to be able to “perform” Wednesday at work. Plan accomplished.

So we start Sunday morning when I receive the text from Marek indicating that everybody is recovered from the hangover and he is ready to drive 500km to Düsseldorf. 6 hour trip that I felt not that long despite the small traffic jams we found. We had lots of things to talk about after one year, and apart from that, the nonexistence of speed limit in Germany helps a bit in that kind of trips. Half an hour before reaching Düsseldorf starts to rain pretty heavily. I start to think that this trip is just Marek’s plan to not drive alone in his way back to Germany. Of course that was not the case, and besides, rain stops right after we park the car. Ok we are in Düsseldorf. No rain anymore. Leave everything in Marek’s flat and go for a fast tourist tour around the Medien Hafen (Media Port) before going to a good restaurant there to end the day properly.

In our way back from Medien Hafen we have nice view of the world’s largest decimal clock in the world. Some lights along the tower represent the seconds, minutes and hours, but Marek and myself decide that are impossible to understand. I can’t see any decimals there. I have thought about that and I will appreciate any comment regarding this issue. If that clock has the longest number of decimals, this means that is the most exact clock in the world right? So the rest of the clocks are deviating a bit (a very very very bit) every decimal that they do not have? If you want to know the exact time you should go to Düsseldorf, otherwise you can never know exactly in what time you are living. You will always miss some important decimals. Rounding is not acceptable.