Gaelec's Blog: October 2009

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Paris, mon amour!

I'm now in Paris. I love this city. The last press event in Munich went also well. We then went to a traditional bavarian restaurant. I ate a pepper steak and drank weiss beer. After supper, everybody went to bed except Brent, Karlsten and I. We went to drink some more at a popular brewery and after that at a rock bar that had a tape night.

I drank a lot and we had a lot of fun. Yesterday I took the plane for Paris, checked in my hotel and went to check out the show. I met my contacts, everyone is nice. I left to go eat and buy diapers for when Lianne and Nath arrive. Because I was tired and it was getting late, I bought myself some McDonald's :P It's worth it in France because the meat is so much better.
Today I did a lot of demos. It went well, people are excited and very happy that someone from the team came to France to tell them about the game. I got a shit load of cool goodies too :D I worked till midnight. Tomorow's also a big day but I can come in a bit late ;)

Giant inflated Rabbid

Pictures of the Ubi booths

Fountain in front of the Grande Halle de la Villette‎

Place de la Bastille. That's where my hotel was

Friday, October 30, 2009

Köln

Cologne. I just left Cologne and arrived in Munich. Since my last post, plenty has happened. Both press events in Hamburg and Cologne went super well and every one seems super excited by ACII. After the press event in Hamburg we ate at the hotel restaurant and it was super good. After that me and Brent went to take pictures on Reeperbahn street which is a street filled with casinos, sex shops and prostitutes. It's the red light district and it was pretty empty. It was a rainy and cold Tuesday night so we weren't surprised. I have really good pictures of Barbies with fetish suits.

After the press event in Cologne, we ate and drank at a small micro-brewery where it was only locals. The beer was excellent and we drank a local specialty called "kölch" served in small 200ml glasses (my friends called them baby beers when they came for Games Con). We had home made bread with cold cuts and later I had a schnitzel. After that, some of us went to take pictures of the Cologne Cathedral. It's height is quite impressive!

Now in Munich. I'm soon leaving for my last press event in Germany. Tonight we're going to a very popular brewery. More on that later ;)

A closed amusement park near our hotel

Wet leaves on a spot light in the ground

The secret life of Barbie

In the cab while going to the Hamburg airport. Next stop Cologne

A random staircase in my hotel in Cologne. I didn't have to take those to go to my room :)

Excellent German mustard. This is at the brewery

Ramdom people in the brewery

Brent again

From left to right starting with the blurry face with a green shirt: Neils, Norman, Veronica, guy I don't know, Karlsten and David.

The Cathedral

They were in my shot but it's kinda cute

My hotel, Wasserturm, which used to be a tower of some sort. The keychain was a small copy of the hotel but in brass or something. I think I weighted 500g (it felt like the amount of meat I buy when I make myself hamburgers)

In the Cologne Airport on our way to Munich. From left to right again: Clarissa and Veronica

Me

Part of Veronica, Karlsten and Norman

Neils and David

Brent and Virginie

Monday, October 26, 2009

Essen

Food. We had supper at a Brazilian restaurant yesterday where its all you can eat, MEAT :D it was really good. We drank a lot and a bit more at the hotel and then I went to bed. I had been up for around 36 hours.
The buffet at the hotel was amazing this morning. There was even a waffle machine and I made me a delicious waffle :9 accompanied by cold cuts, a croissant, orange juice and coffee.

Part of the hotel lobby

Corridor to my room. The picture is a copy of one of Brent's :P

We drank some more

I was really temped to use it but it would have done more harm than good to my shoes :(

The room and set up for the Assassin's II Creed demos. It was an appartment in the hotel. There were 5 TVs and I was alone but it went really well :)

Neue Shuhe

New shoes! What better way to start a trip than to buy new shoes and break them in on your trip. Especially if you buy Adidas in Germany :) Funny enough though, the pair I chose is a special collection branded with the city of NY, Hehe.
It was cloudy and rainy but I still took a couple of pictures. I hooked up with Brent, a collegue from Ubi MTL that I had met through a friend and that I got to know better at E3 and TGS.
He ate (I had eaten a cool kind of pizza while shopping) and we both drank some beer.
Soon I'm meeting up with the rest of the team to talk about tomorrow and go out for supper.

On my way to a popular shopping street: Mönckebergstraße

Information panel pictures will always be in front of the picture of the thing :P

Cool kind of pizza I had. I was seeing many people walking with those so I decided to eat as locals do :P

The pizza was good but gave me heartburns so I washed it down with milk

I liked the spiral in the tower

There was a flower IN the church entrance. I think the churh was closed. There was also a locksmith in another entrance of the church

The name of the store just made me laugh

Part of a bridge

Brent

The restaurant in the hotel

My room number

Mein deutsch ist nicht schlecht!

It means my german isn't bad. I'm surprised by how much I remember. I just checked in my hotel. Its really fucking nice and design. I slept like 30 on the plane. Now I'm gonna go eat and shop.
Ps. Its cool on air Canada flights,you can watch short films made by Canadians.

My room

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