Greetings From Germany

hahaha welcome to germany :P

i hope you enjoy it here ^^
the weather is still nice, i hope you have a good time here

I noted yes, as I'm sure I would. but i've never actually flown. Heck I'm the only one in my family who's not left this country yet. Everyone else has been to europe at least twice.

Germany sure seems like a beautiful place!
Regarding your question of jetlag, i have'nt travelled by plane to faraway places yet, so cannot comment or vote.

Best of luck regarding your presentation tomorrow Danny!

Welcom to Germany

Hamburg is a nice city!

Hamburg looks strangely like downtown Quebec, with its strange mix of classic architecture restored and kept proper, yet dotting in with modern where they could fit it in.

Bonus points for the BLT Breakfast.

You're making me crave that right now. ._.

Oh, and I didn't even answer your question.

I go on international flights now and then for work (and sometimes for play), and as strange as it may sound, I found that drinking a fair amount of water keeps lag at bay. I find it makes the body feel refreshed and less ill.

I'm lucky enough that I rarely feel jet lag but at times it does get to me. If I feel it getting strong, I usually chill the lag out with a pepsi or coke. I don't know why it works, it just does for me!

Have a nice time here ^^
and good luck for tomorrow...

Jetlag? I start with a little dolphin maintenance ... usually helps me!

i don't ever seem to get jet lagged

my doc says i have a good 'adaption rate' or something where my body 'adapts' to the situation very quickly and that also includes my body clock
i still don't believe a word he said.

i reckon i'm just too excited to become tired

Nice pics - do people ever give you funny looks when you play with your Haruhi in public places?

Weather looks great - its unusually warm here in the UK now. Hope the weather is good for when i go to Berlin at the end of the month...

As for the jetlag question? I dont. I can never sleep on a plane, so i get bleary eyed, but im normally so excited when i get to my destination (usually Tokyo!) i feel awake again. Im sure ive gone over 24 hours without sleep on an average long haul trip.

for jetlag i usually just stay awake all day till the nxt night and tire myself out...so no problem sleeping

Welcome to germany :)

Be sure to visit the more shaggy places like St. Pauli/Reeperbahn and its ... uhm ... touristic features ;)
http://www.bilderblog.org/2008/03/07/boxerlokal-zur-ritze-hamburg-reeperbahn-st-pauli/

Well Danny is awesome having you in the old country. I like Germany a lot, i had grate time there so enjoy the people and the City( but be carefull of the good beer ^^)

Bye for now.

After a 25hr flight to UK, I slept for two days! Also the same when I returned home.

I can't say for sure that I will get a jetlag, only been on a flight once in my life, though I guess I will feel it when I'll go to Japan.

Looks a bit dull without all the electric signs eh?

I've... never been on a long flight ;_;

Good luck for tomorrow though, Danny :)

Welcome to germany, don't eat to much of our food... it can have the american effeckt... did you check your weight before you left? ;)
Germany will lose sooooo bad vs Tokio in this week lol... and i don't even mind haa!
In case of Jetlag... nah, my only journeys which could have included Jetlag were 7 times Japan and once U.S.A. ... while just breathing japanese air gives me the kick there is no way i could run into a jetlag there. In case of the U.S. i was with a bunch of friends, was hard to sleep at all being the only girl. ^^;

I've only been to Hong Kong at the furthest; 3 hours hardly counts as jet lag >_<

That frankfurter looks really delicious. Tender and full of flavor as you bite in... Mmm... *saliva starts fountaining from side of mouth* :d

Welcome to Germany

Hezlich Willkommen

The weather is great at the momemt.

If you are interested in model trains then visit the adress below,

When it matches with your timetable

Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg
Kehrwieder 2-4 Block D
20457 Hamburg - Speicherstadt

Servus

i always suffer from jet lag during flights to my destination but strangely i never got it on my flight back.

Worst case of jet lag was a long haul flight to Zürich. Spent more than 10 hours on the night flight without sleep. Was really grumpy for the whole of the next day.

wow. . weather and the skies look more beutiful like the last time i was in japan! i never get jet lag though lol. but maybe i do have it because thats one of the reasons why i might wake up late

get on plane, take off, straight hit the sack, occasionally wake up for meal , sleep again, arrive at destination = no really jetlag
so try sleeping all the way back, that might help?? unless you are keen on the air stewardess

furthest being is austin, tx. - full 1 day flight transit at narita.

Good Luck tomorrow Danny!

*I never watched the original Macross so I didn't know Ranka's song was a throw back. I really have to watch Macross now!

Last time I flew with Lufthansa, they sure didn't include Haruhi figures with their meals back then, lol.

Good thing most of your income is in Yen and not in US dollars, since USD's currently doing crap against almost any other currency, especially Euros. :D

Seeing your UK passport makes me wonder, which is more convenient to travel around with? An EU passport or a Japanese passport should you consider getting one since you live there?

Hamburg is sooo close to me! I hope you like it there, Germany should be really nice. Don't ever eat weisswurst though, that stuff made me very very sick for a whole week once. I still don't feel well when I think about weisswurst.
The weather is really nice in Europe at the moment, so you got really very lucky!!
PS: are you alone or did you bring your wife?

Jet lag?

What that? All I need is a looong night sleep and I'm fine the next day. It's a skill. Pretty damn useful one at that.
Just like my "no hangover after a boozy night" skill.

Since there's 7/8 hours of difference between my hometown and the country I'm currently living in, I'd get jetlag when I fly back. >.<; Well, what I do is sleep on the journey and then try to only sleep at the right hours (not sleeping when it's day and force sleeping when it's night). ^_^; My body will eventually get used to the time. But what's worse would be the hot weather.. *_*;

I get jet lag too after a long flight. I don't know how to cope with it; it usually takes me one week to get used to it. I can still sleep at night, but just wake up goddamn early >.<

goodluck Mr,dannychoo.

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Danny, will you check out and give some reports on Otaku shops in Germany after the presentations concluded? ^^

Oh and, the frankfruter there reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangers_and_mash

I usually don't get any jet lag when travelling westwards, especially on flights in the night (for example Hong Kong -> Zurich departs 23:00 in HKG and arrives 06:00 in ZRH), provided that you can get some sleep on the plane. For me, it just feels like a long night.

In the other direction though, it's more difficult to cope with. The most important thing is not to fall asleep until night and wake up in the morning on the next day, no matter how tired you are. More or less a hard reset on your biological clock :). I can say from experience that failing to do so wreaks havoc on you biological clock.

One other thing I usually do is setting all my clocks (watch, ipod, psp etc.) to the destination time and think in that time as soon you board the plane.

Viel Spass in Deutschland!

now when you are in Germany you should come to Denmark xD

Army teaches you a few things, one being that you sleep on ever transportation that you are not in control. By the way, where's you're beer in the picture of wurst? German beer, particularly the local specialty of any given area, happens to be the elixir of the gods

The tap with the 2 knobs are not that pleasant looking. lol

I travelled a lot, but I've never got jet lag.
anyway, good luck for the conference!

Good luck for the presentation Danny!

I never really experience jet lag before, as I never flew far away... Mostly 1-3 hours flight...

Anyway will there be any video of your presentation for us to see?

Danny-san, not sure if you'd be free to take a day or two trip to Lubeck. A beautiful UNESCO site...

While in Hamburg...eat a hamburger? =.="

Jet lag? I don't think I experienced it so far.
When I get tired I wash my face or drink some water or even crack my neck and other joints (Ouch? Nah, I'm used to it). If these techniques still don't work, it means I'm really tired. Then I take a nap if the conditions allow me. ^^;

"Please respect our chefs and refrain from bringing food or drink into the table."... They rather mean "Don't act like a darned cheapskate to us, with your tourist status. You could afford yourself a plane ticket and all but you make yourself a scrooge when it comes to overpriced food. Now, cough the dough, pretty please?". XD

I wonder if there are people that enjoy plane food as much as I do. Looks nice and yummy indeed!

So, how's continental Europe so far? With Haruhi around I got no doubts you're doing well.
Danny Choo and the Dancho, quite the duo! ^^

wHopee for British passport!

Hmm....jetlag, not really affected by it, at most will take me about 1-2 days to adapt. One possible method I could think to fight jetlag is to either make yourself very tired and keep wake, then when you reach you sleep there (for night arrivals); or you keep yourself awake the day before no sleep, then go on snooze all the way on the flight there (if you're arriving in the morning).

At the best for your presentation and enjoy the trip!!

Good to see that there's Kaiserwetter in Germany. I had a nice time in Dusseldorf few years ago (though there was Schietwetter instead). May go back to Germany sometime in the future.

Hope you have a nice time in Germany, and meanwhile enjoy the Kaiserwetter over there.

danny, i live very close to hamburg. wanna meet and eat out together? ;)

otherwise, have some fun here and don't be afraid of the 6xx people at the conference.

A good way to ease jet lag is to get moving... take a jog or run, go swimming, have a brawl...whatever, just keep moving.

welcome to europe danny!
If you have time come visit switzerland :)

Hey the best way to avoid jetlag -> go clubbing for a good night till morning.
Done this the last 3 times i went to japan and never had something liek a jetlag :)
hehe

Danny even take a figure with him :-)

Wunderbar sehr gut.. Danny lol... --_--

I'm really really bad at jet lagged. I takes me 2-3 weeks to recover. =(

I haven't ever suffered from jetlag, however when travelling I don't sleep on the flight (except maybe a little if it's at an appropriate time for the time zone I'm entering) and make sure not to sleep at the point of arrival until it's a reasonable time to be sleeping too.. As long as the first time I sleep is in sync with the new area's timezone I'll be fine the rest of the trip.

Good luck with the talk danny!

Nice hotel you're staying Danny; how do you like over there in Germany?

As for the question, I wouldn't know as I've only flown short hops (to Portugal) when I was verrry little.

BTW did you feel the 'otaku-level' of the world drop as the distance from Japan increased? I know I would....

Didn't get really jet lagged the last time(s) I flew. Guess it depends on the distance travelled/hour difference and on the person.

Good luck with your presentation! ^^

Mr. C, hope you're speech and presentation goes well and with your entourage in Germany, Best of luck.

You should drink one beer before the presentation to "loosen" up the tension hehe..

Welcome to Germany, Willkommen in Deutschland.

Hope you enjoy your stay here. By the way, that Haruhi figure ... don't tell me you got it on the plane ?

It seems to be a really nice place...
That's one big hotdog...
Your hotel room looks nice!!!

If I have to compare to what Macross version is better...I'll say the Ranka version. It's a lot better...I think...

It seems your having fun Danny!!!=D

Welcome to good old Germany, Danny! Looks like you're really lucky with the weather. Enjoy your stay in Hamburg and good luck tomorrow!
As for the topic jet lag, I haven't experienced any, but never flew though^^

haven't got the chance to even leave the whole east asia yet, so i have no chance to experience jet lag. i just caught up with macross too, so far so good... might even turn out to be one of my favourites this season, right beside code geass R2!

Thanks for sharing details of your trip with us! Nice hotel room ^^! And yey for figure haha! Hope U take some nice pix with Haruhi:3

As for jet lag, gya... it is hard o_o; but I know when in Japan, it's kinda like exciting so I tend to stay awake even tho tired, usually get over it by next day ^^;

Ah, jetlag, something I've never managed to escape from except this once when I tried sleeping pills. I slept for 10 out of 13 hours, and even missed breakfast. Not doing that again.

Personally, the most important thing to preventing getting jetlag is sleep, since you don't really have to worry about adapting to timezones. Well, again, I've failed to do this out of my 10+ long flights. Restlessness does some funny things to you.

Crap, double post! Just wanted to high-five Danny for being a Kaho fan.

My body clock has been out of kilter for a long time now. I usually do not go to sleep until 5:00 am [GMT - 6]. Watching the 2002 World Cup was what really did it. The day we defeated Mexico in the round of sixteen, I didn't go to sleep for 30 hours.
I really do not get affected by jet lag. I do manage to drift off to sleep at some point during the twelve-hour flight to Tokyo.
Did you order a special meal from Lufthansa, Danny? I generally order the kosher meal when on American. I'm not really kosher (and I wind up eating a lot of pork in Tokyo, mostly via ramen), but I would rather not have a sausage biscuit as the breakfast on the flight.

Well Danny, my advice for overcoming jetlag won't help you much as you're in Germany already. You're suppose to stay awake no matter what until evening destination time upon arrival. Then wake up early morning and your body should be tired from fatigue by next evening making the adjustment much easier.

Usually I have no trouble with jetlag going to. Probably cause I'm excited to be in a new place. Going home is another matter as I'm relaxed and sleeping in my own bed. My body gives in to sleep at the drop of a pin.

The key is to follow the timezone on whatever at your destination. Try to sleep if you arrive during night time and don't sleep if you arrive in the morning/afternoon even though you are very tired.

That way your body will be adjusted accordingly and more easily.

Hamburg seems to be a nice place. Would love to go there and visit one day ^__^.

Welcome to Germany Danny! Unfortunetaly I can't give you any advice on how to deal with jet lags because I didn't travel that for until now :0 My flight to New Zealand in July is going to take forever as well...

Yay, Danny in Germany ! Welcome ^^
I hope you will enjoy it and when you have some free time, don't try only some german food, as a hint, try some german beer too, it'll give you some good experience.
But can you feel some of the differences between Japan and Germany ? First, not so many People are living there like in Tokio (Tokio has 38 Millions, Hamburg only 2 Millions ...) and at top of that, the people there are complete different from people in Tokio. When i see all the stuff, that the people in Tokio are doing, i will never see that in Germany.
Yep, other countries, other cultures i know, but i think this difference is crazy big.

Enjoy the time and good luck ^^

Melatonin might help for those kinds of things, I use it when I can't sleep at all.

Anyways, Germany looks beautiful! I would love to visit, the food looks tough and delicious.

Good luck over there Danny, and if you're back then I'm a bit too late posting this...

Well, sicne I never flew longer than maybe 2 hours (Germany-Spain|Hannover-Barcelona) I have no clue if I would get lagged.

Anyway:
Danny, you are one lucky guy to be here in our beautiful Germany during this time of the year. It is Bockbier time and you should really try this fine brew out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bockbier

Well, have fun in Hamburg.

Hmmm nice pics. Dunno how you get to take such nice pics of food and stuff Danny. Even from... hmmm... sausage and chips?

Anyways, when I went to Japan, it was only them I got to know what JetLag is.

And I did have long trips before...

But well, Brazil to Japan is probably among the longest plane travels and the most radical fuse changes out there.

I had headaches for the first week, and felt weak and sleepy.

May not sound much, but for someone like me who is completely used to sleeping at random hours (ranging from 22pm to 11am)...

I really don't know what caught me, but it was kinda bad. Affected some of my relatives too, but not all of them.

My mom didn't have problems with jetlag, but she caught a cold as soon as we got to Japan... it was very cold, she's kinda sensible to it...

Well I always get jet lag whenever I go to the States (5 hours of difference). I had a bad experience when I came back from New York two years ago by Lufthansa, the food was not really that good, I prefer traveling in Portuguese flight companies where the food is much better. Hope you enjoy Germany, only been there in Frankfurt.

I bet jetlag would mess up your sleeping habits, but I never have experience jetlag before.

Well, having only flown once (And then only back one time zone) I can't say if I've had jet lag. But I just bite someone local, drain their blood, and I feel fine.

Good luck in Germany I hear that it's a beautiful country to visit. Enjoy it!

wow hope you have fun there. the hotel room looks lovely. about jetlag, I always try to sleep through the whole plane trip. that usually cuts my jetlag time in half. unless of course I arrive in the evening then I'm screwed or the next three or four days. ^^. if melatonin. you can try anti-allergy meds. they usually knock me out real fast. I'm not sure if you need prescription for them though.

The easiest way for me to avoid jet lag is to remain awake the entire flight, all the way up until a proper time to go to sleep at the destination. Unless you arrive at your destination in the morning (meaning a long day ahead of you) I think it's easier than trying to catch some z's on the plane (unless you've got some swank seating assignment).

Germany is definitel cool. I've only been to Berlin, but I had a great time. I usually do ok with Jetlag. My trick is that I don't sleep before I get on the plane but it seems that only works for Japan because the flight is so long.

My fiance and I took a flight from Minneapolis to Tokyo, non-stop, a few years ago. We were getting up at around 3-4 am and falling asleep at 4-5 pm. It sucked and we never got to see anything of the nightlife. So I'm right there with you Danny. Still loved the trip though, and can't wait to return some day when she gets out of grad school. ^_^

WOW... Love the hotel room, that has to be one of the coolest beds ever. That airplane food dose look good - what class did you fly?? The picture out the airplane window is great.

Danny-kun, Are you going to post up any video of your presentation? Would love to see you present. ^.^

I find that I only feel jetlag if I sleep on the plane to my destination. If i stay awake, i'm plenty tired by the time my destinations sleep time rolls around and I slip into a normal sleeping pattern thus avoiding being jetlagged for the most part of my trip.

I also saw someone posted drinking pepsi/cola ... That does seem to work for me as well. I think it's just the caffein in general will pep you up and get your through the initial first day of jet lag.

It's funny that when I go to Japan, I don't ever get jetlag maybe cuz there are so many things to do in short time that my body knows and act accordingly. But once I get back to USA, I get horrible fatigue for about a week so I guess it's then my body releases all the toxins(?) it has been blocking or something -_-

Have fun in Germany, those big German sausages look awesome :P

I'm happy to say I don't get jet lag. Although the biggest time difference that I've experienced is about 4 to 5 hours. I'll see how I hold up when I go to London and Rome in June. Any places you think I should visit when I'm in London Danny?

I want a giant German sausage ^^

Woah......that airline food looks so much better than the...the....poo that we get fed on QANTAS flights.

I love japanese to english translations. It is really funny when clothing and pencil cases etc, have these little sayings on them in English and they never make any sense. It is so cute.

Germany looks really nice :]

sweet hotel room

I kind of think jetlag is a myth. I mean, of course you'll be awake if you slept the entire time on the plane and you arrive at 10pm...

I check to see what local time I'll be arriving, and time my sleepiness to be appropriate. I just came back from Paris, and I was arriving at 8pm local time, so I decided to sleep for most of the flight but stay awake for the other half so I'd be slightly sleepy by the time I got here. I had just enough energy to unpack and go to bed. Woke up bright and early the next day.

i never get jet-lagged. I blame it on my bad (or probably highly adaptable) sleeping habits. I've never had to suffer headaches or disorientation

Nice bed!

Lucky guy, you lost the earthquake

I must be the saddest human being in the universe, I've never rridden on an aeroplane before...

Anyways, GO DANNY GO!

Good luck Danny for your presentation and enjoy Germany ^^

Had terrible 4 days of jetlag going from UK > Tokyo. Easier going the other way, if you get morning flight from Tokyo and get to UK in mid-afternoon it just feels like unusually long day.

Good luck with your presentation Danny

Good luck with the presentation Danny.
i've never really experienced jet lag, although thats mostly because I don't travel far (mostly Sydney to Singapore).

Why don't you pop by Amsterdam and give you're dolphin a good workout after Germany for all the hard work that you've done since you're already in Europe ;).

Yes I will get jet lag, and I have to overcome that on my trip to Japan.

Whatever you are eating with the french fries earlier in the post (not the frank!) looks really good.

Enjoy Germany! It's a lot like Pennsylvania, but it's the real thing :).

I never get jet lagged on any trip which is a good thing as my body adapts easily. I don't like very long trips though especially on a plane as the seats tend to be really small unless your in business class or first class which most of the time I'm not in. heheh! Germany is just a few hours away from here in Sweden. I saw Hamburg from the sky on my way here too.

By the way, let us see more pictures, Danny :D
Most of the people here want to see much more of your trip, i think.

wow~ mr. fancy. got any more pics?

Every time I return from Japan I get horrible jetlag. Not sure why. On the way there I am fine though.

Flying in business class 70% of the time with the 180 degree lie-flat seats does help though. ;)

That's a nice hotel room you have in Germany. Comparable hotel in Tokyo would be at least 30,000 yen I'd imagine. And it would be smaller too!

Just drink heavily on the plane and once you arrive. Pass out, wake up. It turns from 'jet lag' into a hang over and can be battled accordingly.

It feels way more natural to feel like s**t and have a reason. Sitting on a plane for 17 hours just doesn't seem like enough justification.

I usually get jet lagged for a day or two, but that's just about it. My body clock adjusts quickly, I suppose.

im use to jet lag alot...since i travel with family alot...the best way to fix the lag is to stay up 24 hour and try to see at 8 pm in ur current country ^^

i have never been jetlagged i must be lucky

have you been in France too?
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i get lagged so what i do is sleep till 12pm the next day.i recently went to denmark and lebanon and although the time difference in lebanon is 2 hrs and indenmark its 1 u still get tired from waking up at 2 in the morning for the 2 hour trip to the airport.

europe's cool aint it.ive also been to germany and to denmark(the country abouve germany which ive been to at least twice every year)