On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 11:33:55AM +0200, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > It will be held in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on 14/15 September 2013, at: > > 7P B2B Mobile & IT Services GmbH > Solmsstr. 4 > 60486 Frankfurt am Main > http://goo.gl/maps/2T5j2 > > There are only 6 places left!
Likely that information is now out of date. There may even be a waiting list... > Frankfurt is easily reachable by plane, train and car. But not from "Frankfurt" Hahn airport, which is 124km away... I sent this to the london.pm list last year. I believe that it was still fairly useful then, but the ticket machines may have improved since then: Free advice that might be useful to anyone going to Frankfurt, or might just be annoying: 1) If you have Euro small change, look it out and take it. When I was visiting in October 2011, it really wasn't obvious whether any ticket machines at the airport would accept credit cards.* Machines with card slots often only take EC cards, which everyone in Germany seems surprised don't exist outside of Germany. Meanwhile, credit card penetration in Germany is low. In 2011 the machines at the main station *did* take credit cards, but they seemed to be the exception. This is, of course, the wrong end to put the credit-card enabled machines. D'oh! 2) Frankfurt has Apfelwein. It's often available in large jugs, from which you refill a small glass, traditionally with a diamond pattern on it Generally it's more "Old Rosie" than "Aspells". So it can be a bit fun drinking it in large quantities. Nicholas Clark * In 2008 we had massive fun in Mainz (the far end of the line from the airport), trying to find a machine that would sell the right kind of tickets and accept the size of banknote that the cash machine had just dealt out. I forgot to blog about it at the time, but it was an epic farce lasting something like 10 minutes. And no, the small value tickets we needed were not available for sale using a credit card. Or from the human staff at the long distance ticket window, who did have change.
