Anyway, the second and more important reason is that I went to Landshut. A very nice, but very small city in Bavaria.
During most of the trip, I was in a small group of 4.
Me and Juliana (from Brazil).
Petri and Anne, both from Finland.
Landshut is famous for this church tower. The church is called St. Martin and it has the highest church tower made of bricks in the whole world. 
This is the Landshuter Residenz, the first renaissance palace north of the Alps.
This is a BMW of the 1960s model.
This pic was taken inside the Residenz.
The guy on the left is Mehmut from Turkey, in the middle is Muhammad from Egypt, and on the right is me! By the way, Muhammad is our gang leader, and has taken us to lots of places. He is fluent in German and Arabic, reasonably proficient in English (it did take me 15 minutes to explain the word 'savior' to him, and he insisted that the right word is 'saver' like lifesaver!), and is working on Spanish and Russian these days.
These are my trademark pictures of somebody taking a picture.
The fifth person in this photo is Christoph, a resident of Landshut and a student of Political Science in LMU, and an apartment mate of Juliana. He was critical in helping us find this good place when we were short of time and desperately needed some food.
This picture is a memory of the most important lesson I learned during the trip. That is, NEVER order ketchup in an Italian pizzeria. I asked the waiter for ketchup, and had to listen to a long lecture, at the moment and later when we were leaving, about how this is one of the worst things you can say to an Italian.
The discussion that followed resulted in the following lessons:
1) Never cook Weisswurst in a frying pan. Always boil them in water.
2) Never cut Weisswurst before boiling.
3) Never eat Weisswurst with skin.
During the trip, I also learned that a Finnish company Patria designs and manufactures the wing spoilers for A380. I found this out from Petri as he interned there last summer. It was rather astonishing for me, because I've heard that one of the key strengths of Boeing is in their wing technology. And I assumed that the other leading aircraft manufacturers must be very strong in this technology. I believed that wing spoilers are one of the most crucial parts of wing technology.
Patria is a first tier supplier for the Composite wing spoilers for the Airbus A380, world’s largest passenger aircraft, being exclusively responsible for their design and analysis, verification, manufacture and product support.
http://www.patria.fi/products/PatriaProductsPublic/search.aspx?selectedcategory=CCE2642B62914F47BD68DDBA7199FFCA&productid=91196D811ABD4A3AAEA1EA21C618092F&page=1
Anyway, what I knew, and turned out to be correct, is the fact that composite materials are being used for aircraft structures, and the reason why.
The composite spoilers are an essential contributor to lower operating costs through reduced fuel consumption as the aircraft derive much of their efficiency from lower structural weight, achieved through the increased use of composite materials.
http://www.patria.fi/products/PatriaProductsPublic/search.aspx?selectedcategory=CCE2642B62914F47BD68DDBA7199FFCA&productid=91196D811ABD4A3AAEA1EA21C618092F&page=1
I further discovered that Boeing subcontracts its spoilers as well, not surprisingly to an American company, Vought Aircraft Industries, Inc. Vought is also the largest U.S. manufacturer of aerostructures for Airbus. And incidentally it has a plant in Nashville, which designs and manufactures the wings of Gulfstream jets. Nashville is where the headquarters of Cat Financial are. :)
http://www.vought.com/newsFactGallery/factsheets/company/vought.htm
During the trip, I also learned that a Finnish company Patria designs and manufactures the wing spoilers for A380. I found this out from Petri as he interned there last summer. It was rather astonishing for me, because I've heard that one of the key strengths of Boeing is in their wing technology. And I assumed that the other leading aircraft manufacturers must be very strong in this technology. I believed that wing spoilers are one of the most crucial parts of wing technology.
Patria is a first tier supplier for the Composite wing spoilers for the Airbus A380, world’s largest passenger aircraft, being exclusively responsible for their design and analysis, verification, manufacture and product support.
http://www.patria.fi/products/PatriaProductsPublic/search.aspx?selectedcategory=CCE2642B62914F47BD68DDBA7199FFCA&productid=91196D811ABD4A3AAEA1EA21C618092F&page=1
Anyway, what I knew, and turned out to be correct, is the fact that composite materials are being used for aircraft structures, and the reason why.
The composite spoilers are an essential contributor to lower operating costs through reduced fuel consumption as the aircraft derive much of their efficiency from lower structural weight, achieved through the increased use of composite materials.
http://www.patria.fi/products/PatriaProductsPublic/search.aspx?selectedcategory=CCE2642B62914F47BD68DDBA7199FFCA&productid=91196D811ABD4A3AAEA1EA21C618092F&page=1
I further discovered that Boeing subcontracts its spoilers as well, not surprisingly to an American company, Vought Aircraft Industries, Inc. Vought is also the largest U.S. manufacturer of aerostructures for Airbus. And incidentally it has a plant in Nashville, which designs and manufactures the wings of Gulfstream jets. Nashville is where the headquarters of Cat Financial are. :)
http://www.vought.com/newsFactGallery/factsheets/company/vought.htm
The second most important, and the dumbest thing I learned that it is OK to rotate my camera and take a picture in portrait format, but it is NOT OK to rotate my camera during a video shoot. You can rotate the pictures on the computer but not the video. And I learned this lesson the hard way!!
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