Stéphane Lee

The IT Crowd has just started its second season in the UK this week (on Channel 4). NBC will have its first US version this fall. We’ll see how the US and UK version compares. The IT Crowd is about three IT support people in a company. I highly recommend that you check from the first season if you don’t know them. Very funny!

After making a rocket car and visiting the south of USA, they are the first to go to the North Pole by car. Amazing!!!

So far, I think that Frankfurt Airport is the worst that I’ve ever been. The ventilation pipes are visible. The smoking area is only a kiosk with ash trays. The smoke is not extracted properly and you can smell it all around. The security is a bit too physical for my taste. They do not have the walk through (door-frame) metal detector. They use a portable metal detector and palpate you a bit too much. They could have put more walk-through metal detectors. Some signs do not work. It seems to be undergoing some renovations.

Paille-en-queue in Frankfurt Airport

Munich airport is much better (no palpation, no smoking areas) and has even a sex shop in the terminal. No kidding!.

I got a chance to go to Manchester for a few days. I’m not a big fan of Premiership football. It is quite a big city. The amount of police car patrols are above average in the Curry Mile. The Old Trafford stadium seems to be falsely small when entering it. It can hold 80,000 spectators in fact.