Conferencia Rails 2011 – A motorcycle journey from Germany to Madrid
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I am Julian Fischer CEO of the Avarteq GmbH.
After speaking in 2009 and enjoying an awesome conference I was very interessted to come back again.
This time it will happen at this wonderful park.
It’s a wonderful conference at a wonderful location. So why not having a wonderful journey to it as well?
So I took my motorcycle and a good friend and drove all the way from Germany through France crossing the Pyrenees heading
to Spain’s capitol Madrid.
Once there two of our Avarteq Team will join us.
Our journey was a hard piece of work but also a hell lot of fun.
We planned two days to get from Saarbrücken through France to the french side of the pyrenees.
The idea was to make around 500 km a day.
Our first day: getting everything together turned out to be a more time consuming task than expected.
Especially because the decision to really do this trip has been made very late.
However we started with the sun shining.
After 50 km it started raining. And it rained and rained and … rained.
Completely frozen we had to abort after around 250 km.
Luckily we found a nice hotel.
With this loss of time we had the choice: either loose a day at the Pyrenees, which is surely the most exciting part of the journey, or burn the road on day two.
So we burned the road. At day two we did 1.000 km and reached a village right next to the Pyrenees.
Unable to find any hotel we had to drive over fairly uncomfortable small winding roads. We were tired and exhausted.
At 22.20 we arrived at this small hotel somewhere in /dev/null.
It was an amazing place. Just so authentic and real french. They served cheese and wine so that we felt like real french people :-)
Day three we started a trip crossing the most significant pyreneean pass roads.
Wonderful, beautiful, awesome, exciting! That’s what motorcycles are build for!
Day four we continued the pass road trip heading through Andorra.
On the pass road just before the border a car has crashed into a caravan. Sadly at least one person died.
Strange things have gone through my mind when we passed the bloody roads.
However the beauty of the nature helped to reenjoy the trip.
Day five marked the end of the mountain part of our tour. We started with a beautiful pass road heading towards Zaragoza.
From Zaragozza on we blasted towards Madrid where we arrived 590 kilometers later.
It has been a wonderful trip. Energy consuming but absolutely awesome.
Now conferencia rails can begin. I am very looking forward to see all you great ruby guys again.
I hope we can have a chat and grab a beer in the evening.
So see there guys!