slycat | Eurofurence: The Report

Right, on with the final day, I shall complete this report!

The Sunday was the only day I didn't get down for breakfast. Instead, we were all busy making sure we were packed up and ready to check out. On returning the keys, we got our 20 euro deposit back, which would come in handy as I had spent all the cash I had bought previously. The only real event of the day was the group photo which eventually took place at noon. Until then, we pretty much just socialised with people we had come to know via the con.

The photo itself took place quite a distance from the hostel infront of a large archway. Somehow everyone managed to fit in for the photos, which I doubt I'll appear in any of cos some twunt on the row in front insisted on holding up ferret puppet the entire time, blocking my face... anyway, after the photo, people started leaving and going their seperate ways. Our flight wasn't until 7pm and so we had plenty time to kill. We were allowed to store our baggage in the dining room while we went off into Nuremberg in search of food.

Now, I'm not sure if it's a religious thing or what, but unlike in the UK, pretty much everything is closed on a Sunday, even restaurants. We had planned to go to a restaurant which was below street level which had caught our eye before, but unfortunately it was closed, much like everywhere else. So while we pondered where we could go for food, a helpful old german man, who had obviously worked out that we were foreigners after a place to eat pointed at his mouth asking "Essen?" ("Eat").

colifox took the directions from him and we ended up at some sort fo English themed bratwurst restaurant. It wasn't a great service, nor was I took keen on the food either (I had 10xbratwurst with sourcraut) but it was somewhere to eat and spend our remaining time in Germany.

We then made our way back to the hostel to meet up with the others who were getting the same flight, and got the hostel to send 2 mini-bus sized taxis to take us to the airport. Worked out very cheap this way as we had 7 in one vehicle which split the cost nicely. As it most non UK airports I've been to, Nuremberg airport was pretty much devoid of any interesting shops and things to help spend the time. We ended up just sitting at the seats playing DSes until checkin opened. Once through checkin, shopping and entertainment were even worse, with there literally being 2 shops there... and that was it. Security was much more swift than coming from the UK but that was partly due to it being a smaller airport and secondly due to the fact that their security wasn't as highly strung as in the UK.

For some reason Air Berlin didn't just have a walkway from the airport terminal to the plane itself, raher we had to get on a bus which ferried us over to the plane which was waiting in a deserted area in the grounds of the airport. Flight back was again relatively harmless. Food was better this time round, but still very basic. The flight itself took no time at all, leaving only security and baggage claim before the long journey home. For some reason, on arrival to Stansted I was pretty giggly and couldn't help smiling at security after realising the security officer looked like Howard from the Halifax ads (not helped by

mecklar shouting "Who gives you extra?" while queuing). Slowly but surely, the remaining people we had spent the past 5 days with made their own way home, leaving

andysquirrel to drive

arakinuk and myself home.

Fortunately, I remembered which zone we were parked in as Andy had completely forgotten. Kinda worrying really cos had I not just happened to remember the letter K, we might still be looking for the car now :P. The drive home seemed to be quicker than the drive there, eventually getting home around midnight. Needless to say, I crashed out and slept soundly in my own bed that night. I really appreciated the fact that I had the Monday off as I would have been pretty useless at work if I had to go in.

Anyway, that's the end of the report, had a great time which I won't forget. I expect to be making one last EF12 post to summarise my time at the con.