As my coworker Florian would put it: Damn the sh*t f**k. For us (us being the hamburgian musichackday tourists Michael, Wolfgang and Jan with a taste for low budget travel plans), the musichackday was over before it even started. We patiently stood in line at the Ryanair dominated airport in Lübeck, but, really, we should have known better. Not a single Plane left or arrived at Lübeck after 15:00 on Friday. It was snowing like hell (a very cold hell, that is) and the snow ploughs tried their best, but, heck, it was almost impossible to drive safely with a car out there, so it probably wasn’t a too bad decision to not try to land or start there. Safety first, safety first.

But, being a screwed Ryanair customer, it was clear for us that we had no chance to get to STHLM in time, except for making the travel at maybe 3 times the expense originally planned.
This obviously being the most awesome hackday evar, I’m still quite disappointed. But I repeat myself. Wolfgang suggested early on that we should hack on regardless and so all of us met on Saturday, started with a good Breakfast with leftovers from the porkcamp and dived into the projects we had originally planned for Stockholm.
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