Hey Louise!
Cheers for not forgetting us, come rain, sun or internet cafes closing at 10pm.. !!
I am trembling! I think I actually have shakes from not having internet!
It does remind me of the horrible winter I spent in Munich in 2004. The residence hotel I moved into had "internet" but the computer, which was one computer for the entire complex (limited to half hour windows of time with people standing over you) was dog slow, had trouble opening browsers, and in addition had an "browser Nanny" that would not allow me to open any of the sites I was on. (You know, like the yaoi fiction site I was writing for at the time). Anyone who wants to see "what else I write" is welcome to browse my internet site for my several unpublished novels, my one published novel which is available there for sale, or look for my name in amazon.com
my website is
www.zebratta.comIn winter of 2004 I was reduced to getting on a bus, then changing to the underground, then transferring to the train from Ottobrunn (on the outskirts of a very big city), then going downtown, to the Hauptbahnhof, into a crowded (with smokers) internet cafe that closed at midnight. The chairs they had there were brutal on my back, which I was having trouble with due to the bad chairs at my work... and when I get let go from the position after 6 weeks and ended up back at my friend Jane's house in Darmstadt (she had broadband) I was not so much disappointed as grateful.
So I am reliving a bit of a nightmare at the moment.