that´s a hot line when writing this will most off my fellow friends think, what did i mean by writing that.
Hehe I will tell you straigth away, what I mean by that.
Some of you may know that I´m heavily involved in the enrgy business after slipping in there from my origin work as an investment advisor and owner of several companies around that field.
I want make it here the long way how it came to energy just short I first had a job with one of the majors in germany (where I was born) where I worked with nuclear fuel in a production site, and belive me that wasn´t the job I want to do for a long time ;) I hopped over to the real renewable side from them and developed a bunch of PV-projects in subsidiaries of a former CEO form one of these 3letter guys.
What comes with it was traveling all over europe from site to site managing all the tasks, and that is what leads to this article, moving from A to B in a car is nothing special when having a stable mobile net and good GPS connection with the built-in cars navi, right ?
Yes, that´s it but I expect to have trouble with that in places like Sicily (one of the italian islands), or in the wide and wild south of Spain where I actually live, but I really don´t had problems with that over there, and believe it or not in Germany -in the Hi-Tech country- I had yesterday again experienced the opposite side of the medal.
The Car-Navi was 2 Kilometer or a bit more than 1 mile away from the real location where I was driving, so I used Google-maps on my mobile for the navigation to a place where I never being before in my life in Germany but I had to go there on time to a urgent and necessary meeting for a runing project.
I started near my hometown Hanau and lost several times in the first 10 kilometers to the A3 in direction Frankfurt Airport the GPS connection, passing the Frankfurt Airport as far as I know the biggest Air-Hub by far in Europe I lost several times the connection, I lost phone conversations several time on my 290 Kilometer ride.
But the stunning thing is in the region where I started in the surroundings from Frankfurt that´s one of the most modern Industry regions in Germany, the Highway A3 is the most driven one from people crossing states in europe to the south or north, so what the hell is going on there ???
But it doesn´t stop there, when I entered the region of Cologne, Neuss and Düsseldorf, google maps takes 1 to 2 minute breaks (several) in the routing searching for the GPS connection and I´m runing in the wrong direction on the wrong motorway, so imagine you have a meeting, you go on the road with plenty of time as backup for some crazy things on your way (I´ve learned it the hard way, it happens all the time when you don´t need it), but with all that I ran out of time to manage arriving on time on the location for said meeting.
I never had expected such difficutlies in my homecountry, not today, not in this century !
But I learned from a friend the same day that he knows that two guys, friends of him for more than 40 years so back from the old school days have to meet regulary personaly because they don´t get proper and stable moblie line for having a chat with their mobiles, isn´t that crazy they are living in a distance from about 32 kilometers so roughly 20 miles and live not more than 20 Kilometers from the middle of the city of Frankfurt/M !
I wonder if these guys in Germany in the government will ensure that all the peeps over there will manage to go back to the medieval times and live in caves and communicate with drums or fire again, I don´t understand what´s happening over there, instead of getting things done and optimize them to the better they make it worse and worse any time they try to change some.
As a result I feel good about being back in the south of Spain
in a few days and don´t have that kind of difficulties in an what they (the germans ) called it "undeveloped EU-country of the south", the trains are running on time (inbound and outbound) here in Spain not like in Germany where you have to expect to have at least half an hour delay when traveling with a train ;)
sunny greetings actually still from Germany (haha the global warming)