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Title: Location
Post by: vegivamp on 09.03.2007, 14:23:50
Well, I haven't seen this anywhere else yet, so for the Google Earthers, here's a placemark of the hotel :-)

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Title: Re: Location
Post by: Cheetah on 09.03.2007, 14:29:03
Well, I haven't seen this anywhere else yet, so for the Google Earthers, here's a placemark of the hotel :-)

And for those who don't have Google Earth ... have a look a the Travel Section of the EF web page. There's an embedded google maps applet which lets you zoom in on the hotel just as closely :)

Title: Re: Location
Post by: CodeCat on 09.03.2007, 16:27:19
I already added it to my Google Maps placemarks, so I'm all set anyway! =^^=
Title: Re: Location
Post by: vegivamp on 09.03.2007, 16:59:30
Well, I haven't seen this anywhere else yet, so for the Google Earthers, here's a placemark of the hotel :-)

And for those who don't have Google Earth ... have a look a the Travel Section of the EF web page. There's an embedded google maps applet which lets you zoom in on the hotel just as closely :)

Ah, haven't been on the site since our registration was confirmed :-)
Title: Re: Location
Post by: Wawik on 09.03.2007, 17:07:05
Actually, I've fiddled around some more with the Google Maps API (after getting the map on the EF web site to work, which was a royal pain in the arse, especially the polygon for the red highlights) and put up a nice little applet showing some of the infrastructure near the con site at http://husky.dnsalias.org/~doco/ef-hotel1.5/ef-markt.html (http://husky.dnsalias.org/~doco/ef-hotel1.5/ef-markt.html). Note that this is still somewhat a work in progress, but the most important supermarkets, cash machines and so on are in it already.
Title: Re: Location
Post by: vegivamp on 09.03.2007, 17:53:21
I love how you've "accidentally" indicated the mcdo with a biohazard sign :-)
Title: Re: Location
Post by: Okami on 09.03.2007, 18:39:30
I love how you've "accidentally" indicated the mcdo with a biohazard sign :-)

Actually it's a nuclear-hazard sign. But way to cool anyway.

Some people call McDonalds even McDoof(McStupid) or McDreck(McDirt).
Title: Re: Location
Post by: Fawks Beaumont on 09.03.2007, 22:06:42
Well, can you blame them!  And, if you are an American coming over here, if will be such a change from the American McD's, which also are horrible...   Hmm, maybe it's not that much of a change, really.
Title: Re: Location
Post by: K9Primate on 10.03.2007, 20:03:29
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Some people call McDonalds even McDoof(McStupid) or McDreck(McDirt).

I usually call it mockingly a American restaurant.
For fast food I'd much more prefer the local snack bar, you know, those you'd never heard of before.
Or a good Shawarma joint (here in Holland they call it Shoarma, if I'm not mistaken it's Döner in Germany, right)
They usually serve food with taste.
Title: Re: Location
Post by: Jager on 11.03.2007, 01:24:31
I love how you've "accidentally" indicated the mcdo with a biohazard sign :-)

Actually it's a nuclear-hazard sign. But way to cool anyway.

Some people call McDonalds even McDoof(McStupid) or McDreck(McDirt).
Or as us arkys call it McFatasses.
Title: Re: Location
Post by: vegivamp on 12.03.2007, 16:57:53
Well, can you blame them!  And, if you are an American coming over here, if will be such a change from the American McD's, which also are horrible...   Hmm, maybe it's not that much of a change, really.

A Canadian friend of mine claims that European mcs are tastier than the American versions, and when I went to an Eastern European one (Lithuania) I have to say they did seem slightly less evil than the Belgian ones.

Could just be the change of air, though.
Title: Re: Location
Post by: whitewulfe on 14.03.2007, 20:46:39
Why travel just so you can eat rotten ronnies?  Better to get to sample local foods.  Can always eat McDonald's when you get home (like how the first thing I did when I got back from Alaska was go to Tim Horton's. >.>)
Title: Re: Location
Post by: Loewi on 14.03.2007, 21:12:25
Why travel just so you can eat rotten ronnies?  Better to get to sample local foods.  Can always eat McDonald's when you get home (like how the first thing I did when I got back from Alaska was go to Tim Horton's. >.>)

LOL! Rotten Ronnies... I like that description... :D
Title: Re: Location
Post by: whitewulfe on 14.03.2007, 21:13:54
LOL! Rotten Ronnies... I like that description... :D

I credit my deceased grandfather for that expression...  ^_^
Title: Re: Location
Post by: vegivamp on 15.03.2007, 12:00:44
Why travel just so you can eat rotten ronnies?  Better to get to sample local foods.  Can always eat McDonald's when you get home (like how the first thing I did when I got back from Alaska was go to Tim Horton's. >.>)

Oh, but I do, this was just emergency food :-)

I love nothing more that try whatever stuff they eat locally. I've grown quite fond of pierogi in Lithuania, among other things, although I've never dared to try the zeppelins - those things look evil, even though I know they're little more than minced meat in a mashed potato jacket.
Title: Re: Location
Post by: Zefiro on 15.03.2007, 12:18:40
I love nothing more that try whatever stuff they eat locally.
Which quite often is McDonalds and pizza.... ;)

*purrrr*
Title: Re: Location
Post by: Tallyhawk on 26.03.2007, 00:40:16
Why travel just so you can eat rotten ronnies?  Better to get to sample local foods.  Can always eat McDonald's when you get home (like how the first thing I did when I got back from Alaska was go to Tim Horton's. >.>)

My roommate and I made a deal with each other when we arrived in Germany for our first Eurofurence and it still holds.  If either of us even suggests eating at the McDonald's while we are in Europe, the other gets to smack him silly!   :D
Title: Re: Location
Post by: Xan on 04.04.2007, 17:26:53
*laughs*  well , i've been told that the food in the hotel is very good .. so hopefully nobody is forced to eat at McDonalds
 :P

Title: Re: Location
Post by: Pinky on 29.08.2007, 15:57:29
I was just wondering if the map of the local amenities near to the consite could at all be made into a .PDF file format for downloading at all?

I've got no idea if its posable or anything...so sorry if it sounds a silly question.

pinky
Title: Re: Location
Post by: Barney on 30.08.2007, 18:16:17
Why travel just so you can eat rotten ronnies?  Better to get to sample local foods.  Can always eat McDonald's when you get home (like how the first thing I did when I got back from Alaska was go to Tim Horton's. >.>)

My roommate and I made a deal with each other when we arrived in Germany for our first Eurofurence and it still holds.  If either of us even suggests eating at the McDonald's while we are in Europe, the other gets to smack him silly!   :D

Hmm, kinky ;).
Title: Re: Location
Post by: leinir on 30.08.2007, 18:20:44
Why travel just so you can eat rotten ronnies?  Better to get to sample local foods.  Can always eat McDonald's when you get home (like how the first thing I did when I got back from Alaska was go to Tim Horton's. >.>)

My roommate and I made a deal with each other when we arrived in Germany for our first Eurofurence and it still holds.  If either of us even suggests eating at the McDonald's while we are in Europe, the other gets to smack him silly!   :D

Hmm, kinky ;).

But surely, that would mean you'd be going to McD's all the time! The deal ought to really be that if you suggest McD, you -don't- get spankings, right? ;)