Friday, the last day of the conference, and my last 'real' day on trip.
I was up late the previous night, so I didn't get a whole lot of sleep. Not great with a morning presentation, but still, that was fine. Because of other scheduling things the talk got cut down to 30 minutes from 45, which made for a fast presentation. My iBook crashed getting set up (dead battery) so I started a little late and ran over some, but it still went OK.
The rest of the day was bits and pieces, though I did sit through almost all of Damian's Quantum::Superpositions talk. That was, as always, interesting, and he'd updated it since the last time I saw it.
The topper to the conference was the YAPC::EU auction, in which Greg McCarroll auctioned off a whole load of stuff. The two Parrot t-shirts went for about 70E each, which wasn't bad. The color of the London.pm website went for 450E, and my signed YAPC::EU mug went for 35, so we all know what's important. :)
Afterwards, we all headed to the nice section of Munich (as opposed to where the university was) and had dinner. A good chunk of us (including much of London.pm, as far as I can tell) headed out in search of a pub and, after some wandering around, found one. I ended up at a table with Greg, Jos, and James, and we talked until we left, around 1AM. It was a grand time, and the first time I've been in a bar that I actually enjoyed myself. (Though the waiter thought I must be sick, as I wasn't drinking anything alcoholic, but I can live :)
Jos was kind enough to let me crash in his room (I'd not managed to get reservations at the St Paul through Saturday morning, because of the impending Oktoberfest, and originally had a different hotel for that one night) and, well, I did.
Posted by Dan at September 23, 2002 08:11 AM