My Year in Cities, 2009

Published on Dec 23, 2009 (updated Mar 5, 2021), filed under adventure. (Share this post, e.g., on Mastodon.)

Here are some cities I visited in 2009, in no chronological order, not possibly claiming completeness, and just following what Jason Kottke someone introduced some time before 2006. Same procedure as at least last year.

• Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Bad Neuenahr, Germany
• Berlin, Germany
• Bern, Switzerland
• Birmingham, England
• Bonn, Germany
• Brussels, Belgium
• Budapest, Hungary
• Cardiff, Wales
• Dangast, Germany
• Darmstadt, Germany
• Den Haag, Netherlands
• Dublin, Ireland
• Düsseldorf, Germany
• Edinburgh, Scotland
• Frankfurt/Main, Germany
• Hamburg, Germany
• Jever, Germany
• Helsinki, Finland
• Kiel, Germany
• London, England
• Lucerne, Switzerland
• Lübeck, Germany
• Lugano, Switzerland
• Madrid, Spain
• Madurodam, Netherlands
• Milano, Italy
• Mountain View, United States
• Munich, Germany
• Oslo, Norway
• Palo Alto, United States
• Paris, France
• Portland, United States
• Potsdam, Germany
• Rome, Italy
• Sacramento, United States
• San Francisco, United States
• Seattle, United States
• Sion, Switzerland
• Stockholm, Sweden
• Tacoma, United States
• Vancouver, BC, Canada
• Varel, Germany
• Vatican City, State of the Vatican City
• Zurich, Switzerland

Happy holidays everyone.

About Me

I’m Jens (long: Jens Oliver Meiert), and I’m an engineering lead, guerrilla philosopher, and indie publisher. I’ve worked as a technical lead and engineering manager at various companies (e.g., Google); I’m an active web and tool developer (code optimization, digital defense), a contributor to web standards (like HTML, CSS, WCAG), and a book author (O’Reilly, Frontend Dogma).

I love trying things—in web development and engineering management, but also in politics and philosophy, where I hold to one idea in particular: that we can only be well if we take good care of everyone. Here on meiert.com I talk about some of my perspectives and experiences. (Please share feedback: Interpret charitably, keep it friendly, but do be critical.)