B4 In Germany: Smaart School & Wireless Cafe Search!
From EAW Marketing Director Karen Anderson
Day two of the B4 Roadshow stop in Cologne was Smaart School day, and Jamie and Ferrit had a full class of 17 people at the Gahrens and Batterman training academy.
A huge thanks to G&B for letting us use their facility! (It's pictured below.)
While Jamie and Ferrit busily made the world a little "Smaarter" (sorry!), Bernie and Moray headed over to the Cologne Arena to visit Marcus from Gahrens and Batterman as they loaded in a huge corporate event for DHL, utilizing a KF730-based system.
In the meantime, Jeffrey, Kenton and I thought it would be a good time to find an Internet café (since we were having trouble with the hook-up at the hotel), and get some work done. Thus began our two-hour odyssey in search of wireless…
After walking several miles in 85-degree weather through the city of Bergisch Gladbach (shown at right) in search of a place to flip open the laptops and connect into the glorious world of Outlook, we finally gave up and flopped down in a (non-wireless) café and got some lunch.
It was there I learned that there is nothing that will calm Jeffrey down faster than a popsicle or other frosty ice cream treat. Especially if its of the orange or banana variety. One bowl of orange juice with vanilla ice cream, and happy smiling Jeffrey was back.
Good thing Bergisch Gladback is an extraordinarily pretty town, or else it might have REALLY sucked… :>)
Attendees of the B4 Roadshow in Cologne: Harro Veldhuisen, Martin Biegger, Roland Reuss, Stefan Straub, Michael Hack, Klaus Hubner, Stefan Behr, Jan Saueressig, Christiane Bangert, Bodo Felusch, Ferdinand Mulles, Freek Fokker, Wim Voortman, Michel, Tenhage, Rolf Dykstra, Hele Weerdt, R. Brezinski.
Next up: Wolfach - Jurgen’s home town, and then it’s on to Milan, Italy, for the next B4 Roadshow stop.
Below are more views of the Cologne Smaart School in session, as well as snapshots of Bergisch Gladbach taken as we searched for Internet access. Note that last image of Jeffrey setting up a temporary office at McDonald’s.
