Private accomodation @ CeBIT

People living in Hanover see CeBIT - and other big shows such as the annual Hannover-Messe - as a welcome opportunity to earn extra money, by renting out their private homes to the poor greenhorns who didn't reserve their hotel room a year or two in advance. If you're unlucky enough not to work for a company that has booked the whole of, say, the Sheraton, or else have an aunt whose best friend has a cousin who lives in Hannover, then you might end up having a very weird sleepover experience indeed.

I have stayed in private accomodation twice, and both times I convinced myself that the person renting out the room was a psychopath and I was not going to survive the night. Number one was an elderly gentleman living alone in a 5-bed flat stuffed full of antique furniture and porcelaine figurines. I was his only guest. As he showed me around the place, he kept glancing at my breasts (or so I thought), then led me to a room where the bedlinen was covered in
hundreds of little hearts. There was no key to lock the door. I think there wasn't even a key for the bathroom door, but I didn't stay long enough to find out. All perfectly innocent I am sure but I was very young and, well, very scared.

Number two was described to me by my client who had already spent several nights there as a "cross-eyed weirdo" who had rented out his 1-bed flat for the whole two weeks and gone to stay with friends, however had a habit of suddenly appearing in the doorway at 6am just
as you were making your way to the bathroom half-naked. There were hundreds of photos on the walls of his flat - all of this guy himself. I have never been so quick to get ready and leave the house in the morning!

Personally, I would rather stay in Hamburg and take the train every day than risk private accomodation again. Or, there is always sleeping on a boat on an obscure canal near Hanover ... but this is another story ...

Silja

Nächste Woche

beginnt die CeBIT 2008!!!Das deutsche Team arbeitet konzentriert daran, das Beste für unsere Kunden auf der CeBIT zu erreichen: Pressegespräche werden vereinbart und Texte geschrieben, Pressemappen gepackt und Kunden gebrieft. Auf der diesjährigen CeBIT betreuen wir von GBC Germany wieder New Zealand Trade & Enterprise: www.nzte.govt.nz .Außerdem freuen wir uns über die Zusammenarbeit mit Rimage: www.rimage.de .Und dann ist auch noch unser Kunde, die Orbis AG, auf der Messe präsent: www.orbis.de .Ich bin mir sicher, dass auch diese CeBIT eine tolle Erfahrung sein wird!Christine Vogl-Kordick