Woof / Rawr!
I have successfully returned from germany, having attended Eurofurence 20 in Berlin! In short I think the con was a great success, particularily for its size, the new venue and so much of the management being remodeled.

Travel!

Getting to EF was a bit of a hassle to figure out XD After exploring flight and other options I ended up scoring a ride in  Wolfer s car down to germany, along with  Wuffen and  Santafox. I think we ended up heading off around 2am in the morning and drove all night from Sweden to Denmark and then to Germany, with Wolfer and Wuffen taking turns behind the wheel. I must have ended up sleeping away about half of the trip. We arrived at the convention the following morning, a bit after check-in and registration started for the first day of the convention.

The Hotel!
First of all, jeez was this place big! The size of the hotel was able to very comfortably house the some two thousand people who shoved up, but the size might have been a bit to the cons detriment. Because the size was so vast and people have a habbit to still flock to certain areas where everyone is hanging out it kinda felt enormous, full, and empty at the same time, haha. But the place was great. The rooms were spacious and acomodating, and the whole hotel was clean and well organised. The staff was very friendly too, and while at Nordic Fuzzcons previous location the staff donned cat and bunny ears for the event I heard rumours of eurofurence waiter walking about inside fursuits! I Don't know if that was the case, but I did see some animal ears there too!
The biggest complaint would be the elevators XD Not only did it feel like every last one of them broke at least once during the convention, but they were hideously slow and unable to handle the ammount of furs who needed to get places. The hotel also did not have stairs to get to the different floors, so on the extreme end people sometimes had to wait half an hour to get to their room.
The restaurants was interesting, there was like... five or more inside of the hotel itself. Food was overpriced, as expected, but actually really good. The ones I tried anyway.

The con!
Eurofurence was a bit strange to me. It managed to feel way larger than Confuzzled, the other larger con i've gone to, but somehow not quite as grand. Much more of one long continuous party interspaced with some great furry events!
All the events that I was able to attend were quite wonderfull. I managed to see the eurofurence Pawpet show and it was indeed far more dramatic than the brittish one! Very beautifull as well. Despite the length of it, I was glad I saw it. Not to mention the length of the queuing. Some people were seriously in line for three and a half hours to see the show XD But this was because it got delayed enormously. I really don't know what happened there but me and my friends just ended up ditching the line, going to eat dinner, having a drink, and then returning hours later to find the people we left in line in the same place. Glad for that sponsor badge in moments like that, still got a good seat when it did start.
The concert by Fox Amore was very good, and I grew a lot more interest in the guy after seeing him live. And all the creds to his accompanying guests, in particular the madman on the fiddle who managed to completely shred his bow during a solo while not missing any notes.
Also saw Sardyuon live, which was just as good as I hoped it would be. Loved it!

One of the strangest things was the seeming lack of a Closing ceremony. At least me and the people I know weren't able to detect such a thing taking place, and that just gave the con a strange sense of nonclosure. There was also some event where Pinky went on stage and mentioned the preliminary results of the charity, which again just seems strange that there wasnt a closing ceremony where the real sum would be announced. Throughout the con there was also a murder-investigation puzzle happening but I did not figure out how it was ment to be played or who was eligeble. There was a similiar theme at least Nordic Fuzzcon, but there the result of the mystery was announced at the closing ceremony and the winner.

The dances were a bit hit or miss. I LOVED the idea of the 80s dance but the execution just felt a bit wrong, like none of the mixes quite worked for me. The Big Dance at the end was the one I ended up spending most time at, several consecutive hours in a fursuit dancing <3 That was a great time, and I ended up staying at it untill 5am when it finally closed. I ended up missing the dead dog party dance, and most of the dead dog party, because I got a sweeter offer of what to do that night <3.

The guests of honor were very impressive, and I sure hope to find the pictures I got taken with ursula online sometime XD I got punched in the nose for it afterall. (Theres a bit of a story behind that)

The furs!
So many of them! So many nice people I was able to meet for the first time, and some I knew from online and hadn't met before. Because I cant just make one long journal listing every single fur I met (or can I?) I'll just make a special mentions thing!
 Wuffen was nice as a roomate, not much incidents there XD
Thanks to  Rayth,  oosarovakoo and  Modifiedlast, really had a great time hanging out with you guys throughout the con.
 mysticalsynergy, you are awesome on so many levels, probably one of the best dudes at the con!
Big thanks to  Happy-the-husky for helping set up a room at the hotel!

Home
The trip home wasn't that bad. I didn't get struck by any PCD, but I kept feeling sorry for the furs who did! But everyone appeared to be happy and smiling as they left the hotel ,having had a good experience.
Rode back to gothenburg from berlin with the same car-group of furs as I arrived with, and ended up staying a night at Wuffens place with snoring furs XD And back home in Stockholm again after three hour train ride. I am already planing next years EF!

Random aftermaths
I was talked into getting Twitter and whatsapp while at the convention XD so I guess I have those now.


So back at home now, doing the stuff I do!
Mm, Birthday next week, wish me a good one!