Hello everybody,
it’s been three weeks now since the 1. LTT took place at the HTW Dresden (FH) (in English: University of Applied Sciences) right in the middle of the wonderful city of Dresden beside the railroad tracks. The university used to be the national university for railroad engineers during the GDR-times and the closeness to Dresden Main Station can be explained.
Out of a number of about 700 participants -I don’t know about the activity of the people in the group- a small -but nevertheless ruthless- group of eleven people joined the 2-day sessions on the 15. and 16. of September. They came from all around Germany, either by plane, train or car and starting points of their journey were Lippstadt, Hannover, Stuttgart, Mannheim, Leipzig, Berlin, dem Odenwald and -not to forget- Dresden. To make it real lean knowledge expanding experience a hotel for all us was looked for with a special flair. At first there was the idea of staying on a boat (http://www.diekoje.de) in a small harbor in Dresden on the river Elbe. Because this was sold out we moved the location to the Mezcalero, a backpacker hostel close to the Königsbrücker Straße right in the heart of Dresden-Neustadt (the most vidid suburb of Dresden). After everybody had arrived that Friday night we strolled in the Neustadt to take something to eat and chat about what was coming the next two days. At around 1 am we left the place and moved back to Mezcalero (http://www.mezcalero.de) , we agreed on breakfast at 7:30am the next morning and starting from there down to the HTW.
