Last week I was at an offsite business workshop, where the key players gathered to hammer out the setup and highlight the hurdles for the next phase of our major PLM project. This offsite was in Ladenburg, that charming historical Roman town between Mannheim and Heidelberg on the Neckar river…
… though of course, our hotel’s location was in the industrial outskirts of the town, where the charm was of distinctly another flavour. I didn’t stay at the hotel, choosing instead to cycle there and back, a lovely ride along the Neckar (going past the spot I’d been recently on my Panasonic road bike).
The hotel even had a section dedicated to bikes in the garage, which was greatly appreciated.
One lunchtime walk to escape the noise of such a large group took me to the fields outside Ladenburg, with a view to an old-looking chemical factory. See, it does have its charm:
