After Hermann’s old Nokia had been dead for a few days and only awoke today and mine is having problems, too, we decided to make a huge step forward in technology and order smart phones. We opted for Curve 3G 9300.
One important reason why we decided to buy BlackBerrys is that they have got keypads on a regular basis. We didn’t want touch screens which become greasy as we have seen on other people’s devices. Another reason is that BlackBerrys are often used by companies to equip their leading personnel, and they wouldn’t buy cheap stuff, would they? So we feel safe with them quality-wise. A third reason is the “family connection” ;) One of my brothers is working for Research In Motion (RIM), the BlackBerry Company, as an engineer, so we had the luck to get very good advice on which ones of the BlackBerrys would be best for our particular purposes. Asking him saved us a lot of time searching the internet for information and reviews, as we would have had to do with smart phones by other companies. There is nothing worse than reviews contradicting each other by 100% which make things terribly confusing, and this is what happens often enough!
So now we are eagerly looking out for the e-mail telling us that the package is on the way and can hardly wait to have the BBs in our hands :)
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Monday, May 2, 2011
40 Years Later
As I had mentioned before Hermann and I traveled to South Tyrol over Easter. For me it was a journey to my past as I had been there with my family for several vacations about 40 years ago. Hermann and I now stayed in the same village in the same hotel. Of course many things have changed, the village has grown much bigger and the hotel had been modernized. Not everything had changed completely, though, as you can see below :)
The place where I’m sitting on the photo was the one where my grandfather used to sit surrounded by the family during breakfast when he was a guest in the hotel; this table had always been reserved for him. The former breakfast room is now an adjoining room of the inn.
This is little me on my 5th birthday in 1971 sitting on the outside of the bay where my grandfather used to sit inside.
The same place 40 years later. Everything is looking more beautiful now, of course, but I was a little sad that the old letter box was gone which had been a relict from the times when the house used to be a coaching inn long ago.
Helene, the young woman on this photo of 1971, was the hotel keepers’ daughter; she and her younger brother were like friends for my brother and me when we were there.
Helene is now herself the hotel keeper and she was the one who modernized the hotel very beautifully; she has placed lots of flowers and decoration everywhere which makes the place cozy; the photo shows the two of us in the lovely new breakfast room which is designed like a winter garden.
I think it does not happen very often that the favourite places of one’s childhood are still attractive when one has grown up, especially after such a long absence. This was the case here, however. I have changed and the place has changed as well, but we are still fitting together ;) As Hermann liked it very much, too, we are planning to travel there soon again, maybe next year.
The place where I’m sitting on the photo was the one where my grandfather used to sit surrounded by the family during breakfast when he was a guest in the hotel; this table had always been reserved for him. The former breakfast room is now an adjoining room of the inn.
This is little me on my 5th birthday in 1971 sitting on the outside of the bay where my grandfather used to sit inside.
The same place 40 years later. Everything is looking more beautiful now, of course, but I was a little sad that the old letter box was gone which had been a relict from the times when the house used to be a coaching inn long ago.
Helene, the young woman on this photo of 1971, was the hotel keepers’ daughter; she and her younger brother were like friends for my brother and me when we were there.
Helene is now herself the hotel keeper and she was the one who modernized the hotel very beautifully; she has placed lots of flowers and decoration everywhere which makes the place cozy; the photo shows the two of us in the lovely new breakfast room which is designed like a winter garden.I think it does not happen very often that the favourite places of one’s childhood are still attractive when one has grown up, especially after such a long absence. This was the case here, however. I have changed and the place has changed as well, but we are still fitting together ;) As Hermann liked it very much, too, we are planning to travel there soon again, maybe next year.
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