Wednesday, 21 September 2016

Related posts: Berlin Day 1, Day 2 and 3

Gym at Grand Hyatt Berlin
Gym at Grand Hyatt Berlin

Today I woke up very early (like 6:30AM!) and went to the gym. It was located at the top floor of the hotel. It was a modest size gym fully equipped with all sorts of equipment.

The club lounge
The club lounge

After gym, I had breakfast at the club lounge. The club lounge is an exclusive area to people staying on the 7th floor. Apart from an area to relax, they serve breakfast, and provide meeting room facilities.

InnoTrans exhibition
InnoTrans exhibition

Our agenda in the morning is the InnoTrans exhibition. InnoTrans had pre-arranged a tour for us to specific vendors. We visited Siemens, Kawasaki, China Railway, and a few others.

Lunch at Hasir Restaurant
Lunch at Hasir Restaurant

For lunch, we went to Hasir, a well known Turkish restaurant in the city. The food was really good!

British ambassador residence
British ambassador residence

In the evening, we went to the residence of the British Ambassador for a Trade Reception. We get to mingle with representatives from the British government and talk about the latest rail developments in Europe and in Malaysia.

Thursday, 22 September 2016

We started off the morning by having a video conferencing meeting with our head office.

CRRC at InnoTrans
CRRC at InnoTrans

After the video conference meeting, we went to InnoTrans again. We continued our tour of the exhibits and visited CRRC and various British vendors. CRRC had an interesting virtual reality facility for technical rail training.

Piccolo Mondo
Piccolo Mondo

For lunch, we went to Piccolo Mondo, an Italian restaurant not too far away from InnoTrans.

Hyperloop One
Hyperloop One

After lunch, we went back to InnoTrans and toured the remaining vendors, mainly on smart transport technologies. I spotted the Hyperloop One (website) booth and went to have a peek. They don’t have much as it is still pretty much a concept.

Dinner with Malaysian Ambassador
Dinner with Malaysian Ambassador

In the evening, we had dinner with the Malaysian Ambassador at his residence in Berlin. It was a courtesy visit by my boss since we were on an official visit to Berlin.