Nürnburg, Prague

So I haven’t blogged for the last few days and I have much to write about. So where was I… After we arrived in Nürnburg, we settled in our hotel and we immediately got dinner just down the street from our hotel. We had their famous Nürnberger bratwurst, which are about the size of your finger. They were pretty delicious. Rob again tried his luck on one of the waitresses and it was actually histerical. (note to self: remember: du bist ein shurlen mädchen). After grabbing some dinner we all went back to the hotel to skype family and facebook. We hadn’t had Internet for the past few days and it was nice to actually get caught up on all that.
The day after we were on our way to a corporate visit to adidas (a-di-das: their pronunciation). After that corporate visit we would be on our way to Heidelberg! The visit itself was pretty good. I really enjoyed it and I really wanted to buy some of their product afterwards because it look so appealing even if f I didn’t have any real need from them lol. It seemed more like an advertisement ordeal instead of actually business and their organization. It was more from a tourist perspective. However they did cover some of the business aspects, which is really interesting. They have this policy of becoming transformational. They are not doing the basic stages, which everyone else is doing, but they are going above commodities, product, customized but to transformational. After about an hour and a half we went on a tour of their facilities and it was absolutely amazing. I would love to work there because first off, everyone wears adidas. Secondly, they are performance centers where they test their products such as basketball courts, and tennis courts. They were even having a huge party in another room! It was a beautiful campus that was owned once by the US military but when they left adidas bought it because that is the same town it was founded. After the visit we were suppose to go to Heidelberg but to my dismay we were behind schedule and did not managed to get out their ☹.
So we were in route to Bacharach (who really knows about this place). It is this small little town on the Rhine and it was extremely quiet. It was kind of a nice place to live if I ever did. On our way in we saw at least 4 castles on the cliff edge. It was pretty cool. We got their at least 9 at night and of course we had to park like a quarter mile from our hotel and it was poring rain (hundewetter). Anyways we had the hotel manager to come by car to pick us up and give us a ride back. However I hoofed it back with a few others, which wasn’t bad because the rain stopped for a while. After we made it back, we had this “authentic” German dinner, which was a little disappointing when it was just bratwurst and sauerkraut. I enjoyed it of course (natürlich), but I was expecting like a huge schniztel and Käsespeztle. For dessert we had this berry combination stuff that was dank! We then explored the town at 11 or so at night. It was kind of scary because nobody was out and it was completely dark.
The next morning I went up to visit the castle above the city (in my formalwear, which is important to remember and last night rain). Umm… so I decided to take a shortcut (cus I’m a genius) and sort of slipped and the mud was not so kind to me. Needless to say that was an eventful morning however I did make it to the top and saw an incredible view. After that I booked it down so I can see if I can get the mud out of my clothes :D. I got back and begin to wash my clothes, which worked better than I originally thought. I managed to get it all out in time for our corporate visit. We were on our way to Frankfurt to visit the company Norma group. It was.....ok. it was definitely not my favorite. It was dealing with pipe connection and the manufacturing part of it. I felt like they tried really hard to make it interesting but it really wasn’t. We had a tour of the factory, which was boring too. After the visit we back to Frankfurt and grabbed some snacks for our overnight train ride. We had to say goodbye to our friend Mattias, our bus driver ☹.
The train ride was interesting. We had 6 people in a “cabin.” They were probably 12 feet by 6 feet wide. Not a lot of room for 6 people and a lot of luggage. Not to mention it was really hot! There was barely any AC and if we opened our window we would get the love noise from the training moving. I tried to get some sleep right away but everyone else was up for a while. It was a rough night for us. We got little sleep and it took us 12 hours instead of 9 because we were delayed I think somewhere in Berlin. I got about 6 hours of sleep…I think. We went got in Prague we went to grab some lunch at Subway with about 200 crowns! (that’s about 10 USD). It was a really good turkey breast sandwich. After that we went back to the hotel for some more facebook and later met with Professor Sharpe to grab dinner. I had a really good dinner; it was beef tongue (and yes it was real tongue). It was quiet the taste that I probably wouldn’t have again but it was good once you got use to the spongy texture. After dinner we went back t the hotel to get ready for the night. We later went out and had dessert* around the St. Charles bridge.