Although I was not able to visit all sessions at the RIPE 56 meeting this week in Berlin, it was really important for me to go there. Not only, that I had the chance to see the fantastic people I met at the Euro-IX  Forum in Stockholm, RIPE meeting gives me also the opportunity to meet people I only knew via mail and telephone. And of course there  were a lot of cool social events in the evenings over the week. My favorite event was the party in the club Trompete, sponsored by NETNOD.