
So this is Andy again. I promised I'd check in and update on the trip.
The flight from CA to London went surprisingly fast. Business-class on United was so-so, nothing compared to the luxuries of Virgin Atlantic upper-class.
They've got a full bed that they make for you with down pillows and comforters, as well as a full stand-up bar. 
However, there was enough space to stretch out on the overnight flight and I managed to get in about 5-6 hours of sleep, unbeknownst to me since I thought I was tossing & turning and maybe, maybe, getting about 20 minutes here, 20 minutes there. But, before I knew it we were touching down at Heathrow.
Next was a short hop to Hamburg, Germany. We flew Lufthansa. Again, so-so. But the flight was basically up & down. Only an hour. They were serving beers & stuff on the plan and it felt completely odd since I was sure it was breakfast time when in fact it was 5pm in Germany.
That was the weirdest part: I left California at 7pm on Saturday and before I knew it, it was 7pm on Sunday in Germany. I completely lost 12 hours in there somewhere. Did I just get younger? Or older?
My hotel is pretty posh here in Hamburg. But German "posh" means almost military-like precision and manners. So it feels more like a prison in this hotel than anything else.
Sadly it was raining when we got here, but it only made it feel all the more European.
So I settled into the room, not bad, and worked a bit.
Then John (my planning director) & I went out for a bite to eat. John had smartly procured a recommendation from an Art Director, Frank Aldorf at Goodby -- who's a Hamburg native, before we'd left. So we went to this lively little place called Nil. And it didn't disappoint.
I had a typically German dinner consisting of asparagus soup followed by a hearty piece of smoked ham with some sort of sour-creamy thing on the side. So German.


Besides the food being quite tasty, the atmosphere was great. Nil's main decoration were the photo boxes that had a different colored photo in each and it gave the place this very contemporary feel without trying too hard.

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