Event Review By Brian Ethridge

Liebherr graciously invited Catalyst Communications Network’ s Head of Content Brian Ethridge to Germany / Austria to be a part of their 2024 customer days. While there, he journaled the entire trip, from arrival to departure.

Liebherr’ s unveiling of the LTM 1400 6.1.

Finally, I arrived in Munich around 11 a. m. local time. Even though I arrived two hours later than anticipated( due to the delay), the Liebherr crew waited it out and greeted me soon after picking up my luggage.

After leaving Munich airport shortly thereafter, we traveled to the Interalpen-Hotel Tyrol, in Telfs, Austria. As soon as I hopped on the bus, I was offered a beverage( couldn’ t turn down a free German beer), and immediately knew I was in for a fun few days!

I was amazed by the views I took in on our drive to the hotel, but the views at the hotel … they were something else— the mountains, the trees— just imagine a gorgeous mountainous-area; then imagine it being even more gorgeous than you had originally imagined; then you’ ll have an idea of how beautiful the view from this hotel was.

Saturday night, while most of us were jet lagged from the long flight from the U. S., we were treated to a buffet dinner and then left to our leisure. Personally, I was pooped from the flight and bus ride over, so after grabbing some grub, I headed to my room and passed out for about 10 hours!

Sunday morning, finally rested and refreshed, a bunch of the attendees opted to take part in an optional day tour to the Innsbruck City Center. From there, a couple of us wandered the city, took in some more amazing views and enjoyed a drink.

During my first day and a half here, it was obvious that Liebherr’ s presence is all over the place around these parts. Sure, I was traveling with Liebherr employees and customers( and Liebherr owns the hotel we were staying at too), but even our parking lot at the city center had two Liebherr cranes sitting right next to it( building something amazing, I’ m sure).

After taking in sights of Innsbruck, we hopped back on the bus for a short break before grabbing dinner with the entire traveling crew. Once I got back to my room, a little storm rolled in and it began to pour outside. Unfortunately, Mother Nature didn’ t let up, as it continued to rain on our short 10-minute walk to the restaurant( thanks to Liebherr for supplying everyone with their own personal umbrella though!).

At dinner Sunday night, we were

Our view from Interalpen-Hotel Tyrol.

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