10th International Congress on Autoimmunity in modern and dynamic Leipzig will enhance one's knowledge of autoimmunology with the world’s top experts.It is the biggest multidisciplinary meeting where you can learn about more than 80 autoimmune diseases from a variety of perspectives, both research-based and clinical. Autoimmunity 2016, will discuss the newest therapeutic techniques and diagnostic tools as well as the most up-to-date research on autoimmune diseases. The congress constitutes a network of international leaders on immunology, rheumatology and related fields, all of whom contribute their unique and diverse knowledge to the “family of autoimmunity.”
30 March 2019
10 April 2016
PRAGUE ♦️DUBAI (Sun) Today we checked out from Ramada Hotel and travelled back from Leipzig Germany by a land trip to Prague Czechoslovakia . We took our flight from Prague to Dubai and connecting flight to Manila. Dubai is 2 Hours advance to Prague.
05:00 - Alarm
07:00 - Breakfast
08:00 - Check out at the hotel
08:30 - Leave Ramada Hotel in Leipzig and travelled to Prague Czechoslovakia (257 kms)
10:30 - Stop over at "Benzina Gasoline Station" at Sirejovice
11:30 - Lunch at "Antosova Krema" in Slany, Czechoslavakia
13:00 - Travelled for Prague International Airport
13:30 - Arrived Prague International Airport
14:00 - Check in for Dubai Flight EK140 at Terminal 1
14:20 - Boarded at Gate B8
15:35 - Flight to Dubai , seat No 39F, B777-300ER (ABB DEFG HJK)
23:35 - Arrived Dubai International Airport (travel time is 6 Hours + 2 Hours Advance)
Day 5 : April 9, 2016 (Fri) DINNER AT KROBER
Krober Keller (Fish Fillet with Rice and grated veggies)
9 April 2016
HALLE AN DER SAALE GERMANY (Sat) Today we travelled to Halle an der Saale , south of German State of Saxony.
07:00 - Alarm
07:30 - Breakfast at the hotel
09:30 - Met the group at the lobby and travelled to Halle in the Southern part.
10:10. - Arrived Halle an der Saale and have City tour
10:30 - Free time for sightseeing and shopping
12:30 - Met the group at the meeting place (center with Haendel Monument)
13:00 - Lunch at "Mahns Chateau" (Chicken with Mash Potato)
15:00 - Chocolate Factory Tour at "Halloren"
16:30 - Left Chocolate Store for shopping
17:00 - Arrived Leipzig and dropped at Paunsdorf Center shoping
19:30 - Dinner at "Krober Keller" Leipzig (Fish Fillet with Rice and grated veggies)
21:00 - Back to hotel and stayed for overnight
Day 4 : April 8, 2016 (Fri) DINNER AT A LOCAL RESTAURANT
Place : Thuringer Hof
This restaurant is one of the oldest in Leipzig and serves traditional hearty Thuringian and Franconian dishes such as potato soup with sausage, marinated beef with raisin sauce and dumplings. There are large tables and classic retro wood furnishings with wooden benches. It seems to be more popular with tourists than locals, maybe because the staff are dressed in costumes. The whole place is very noisy and seems to reverberate!
8 April 2016
Day 4 : April 8, 2016 (Fri) LUNCH AT A LOCAL RESTAURANT
Place : Sophienkeller
Sophienkeller Dresdenone of the most beautiful vault restaurants of Dresden. In the heart of Dresdens City – opposite the Zwinger and Semperoper – you will find a very special experience. Get snatched to the splendid ages of the baroque around the times of August the Strong. In different vaults you can feast in a romantic ambience as well as enjoy suckling pig, freshly baked bread and saxon beer in rooms like the so called "Zeithainer Lustlager". In the "Alchimistenkeller" – a cave where Johann Friedrich Böttger solved the mystery of porcelain and invented the “White Gold” – visitors are welcome to enjoy the "Alchimist’s delight". Of course, a self drawn beer or a glass of Saxonian wine will make this even more pleasurable.
11:Day 4 : April 8, 2016 (Fri) SIGHTSEEING AND CITY TOUR AT DRESDEN
00. - Stop over at ARAL Gasoline Station
11: 20 - Arrived at Dresden and have City Tour
13:45 - Lunch at "Sophienkeller" (Lechon)
15:00 - Free time for sightseeing and shopping
16:45 - Met the group infront of the Opera House and travelled back to Leipzig
18:30 - Arrived Leipzig and have dinner at "Thueringer Hof" Leipzig (Sausage Platter)
20:00 - Leave restaurant for hotel
Day 4 : April 8, 2016 (Fri) SIGHTSEEING AT DRESDEN
The Semperoper is the opera house of the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden (Saxon State Opera) and the concert hall of the Staatskapelle Dresden (Saxon State Orchestra). It is also home to the Semperoper Ballett. The building is located near the Elbe River in the historic centre of Dresden, Germany. The opera house was originally built by the architect Gottfried Semper in 1841. After a devastating fire in 1869, the opera house was rebuilt, partly again by Semper, and completed in 1878. The opera house has a long history of premieres, including major works by Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss.
Day 4 : April 8, 2016 (Fri) ARRIVAL AT DRESDEN
Dresden, capital of the eastern German state of Saxony, is distinguished by the celebrated art museums and classic architecture of its reconstructed old town. Completed in 1743 and rebuilt after WWII, the baroque church Frauenkirche is famed for its grand dome. The Versailles-inspired Zwinger palace houses museums including Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, exhibiting masterpieces of art like Raphael’s “Sistine Madonna.”
Day 4 : April 8, 2016 (Fri) ROAD TRIP LEIPZIG>>DRESDEN
Distance between Leipzig City and Dresden is 114 kms and approximate travel by bus is 1H :12M
Day 4 : April 8, 2016 (Fri) SIGHTSEEING "BATTLE OF LEIPZIG"
The Battle of Leipzig or Battle of the Nation was fought from 16 to 19 October 1813, at Leipzig, Saxony. The coalition armies of Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Sweden, led by Tsar Alexander I of Russia and Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, decisively defeated the French army of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French. Napoleon's army also contained Polish and Italian troops, as well as Germans from the Confederation of the Rhine. The battle was the culmination of the German campaign of 1813 and involved 600,000 soldiers, 2,200 artillery pieces, the expenditure of 200,000 rounds of artillery ammunition and 127,000 casualties, making it the largest battle in Europe prior to World War I.
Day 3 : April 7, 2016 (Thu) DINNER AT A LOCAL RESTAURANT "Salmon with Pasta"
Leipzig Bayerischer Bahnhof (Leipzig Bavarian station) is Germany's oldest preserved railway station, located in Leipzig, Germany. The station first opened in 1842 for the Leipzig–Hof railway by the Saxon- Bavarian station later taken over by the Royal Saxon State Railways and operated as the Saxon-Bavarian State Railways.gad
7 April 2016
Day 3 : April 7, 2016 (Thu) SHOPPING AT PAUNSDORF CENTER IN LEIPZIG
Paunsdorf Center, in Leipzig, is located in one of the most dynamic regions in Germany, home to blue-chip international companies such as BMW, Porsche, Siemens, DHL, and Amazon. Paunsdorf Center is the most important family shopping center in the entire region. With its shops, restaurants and services it is the largest shopping center in central Germany. Whether fashion for kids, her & him.
Day 3 : April 7, 2016 (Thu) CITY TOUR IN LEIPZIG
Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March [O.S. 21 March] 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Art of Fugue, the Brandenburg Concertos, and the Goldberg Variations as well as for vocal music such as the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach Revival he has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time.
Day 3 : April 7, 2016 (Thu) CITY TOUR IN LEIPZIG
Leipzig city centre (‘Zentrum’ or sometimes ‘innenstadt’) is lively and much of it is pedestrianised. Here you’ll find loads of shopping, restaurants, business offices, and hotels as well as the City Hall, a major University of Leipzig campus and numerous cultural and historical sites (check out the Moritzbastei). There’s also cafes, fast food, international brands, and lots of banks and ATMs for getting your euros. Just north of the Zentrum is the Hauptbahnhof (central train station) with the main tram stop directly in front. There is another major tram stop on the east side of the Zentrum on Augustus-Platz and to the south on Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz.
Leipzig’s Zentrum is actually a very pleasant place to hang out and spend time. It’s clean, safe, historical, a bit touristy and there’s loads to see and do. The images below speak for themselves.
Day 3 : April 7, 2016 (Thu) CITY TOUR IN LEIPZIG
ZENTRUM : Busy and historic Zentrum is known for art institutions like the Museum of Fine Arts, century-old shopping arcades, and the Brutalist Gewandhaus concert hall. Locals meet for coffee and cake at ornate cafes like Riquet, or beer at Auerbachs Keller, an underground tavern that inspired a scene in Goethe’s “Faust.” A museum to J.S. Bach stands across from St. Thomas Church, where he was once a cantor and is now buried.
Day 3 : April 7, 2016 (Thu) LUNCH AT A LOCAL RESTAURANT "Pork Slices in Sauce with Mass Potato"
Barthels Hof was built in 1871 and renovated in 1996. The Renaissance façade was added in 1872, but it's older than the building behind it: According to Denkmal-Leipzig.de, the façade was taken from a structure dating back to 1523 and is "the oldest fragment of a Leipzig bourgeois building façade. Gasthaus Barthels Hof is a restaurant-tavern in Barthels Hof, the oldest shopping arcade in Leipzig. From just beyond the restaurant's entrance on Hainstrasse, a passage leads to Leipzig's historic Market Square. The passage and its courtyard were once used for merchants' trade or sample fairs, which were a staple of Leipzig commercial life in the 19th Century.
Day 3 : April 7, 2016 (Thu) REGISTRATION AND LECTURES
The 10th International Congress on Autoimmunity is the only meeting where you can learn about more than 80 autoimmune diseases from a variety of perspectives, both research-based and clinical. They discussed the newest therapeutic techniques and diagnostic tools as well as the most up-to-date research on genetic, etiology, diagnostic, clinical aspects and novel therapies of autoimmune disease. Established by Professor Yehuda Shoenfeld, the congress constitutes a network of international leaders on immunology, rheumatology and related fields, all of whom contribute their unique and diverse knowledge to the “family of autoimmunity.”
Day 3 : April 7, 2016 (Thu) ATTENDANCE IN THE CONGRESS
Venue : Congress Center in Leipzig
The Congress Center Leipzig (CCL) is one of Europe's most modern congress and conference centres. With its historic architecture, KONGRESSHALLE am Zoo Leipzig also offers state-of-the-art technical standards .
The CCL was opened in 1996 alongside the Leipziger Messe Exhibition and Convention Centre, and it lives up to the most advanced technical standards. 23 halls and rooms, and spacious foyers and exhibition areas, make it perfect for all kinds of event layouts. In combination with Leipziger Messe’s exhibition halls and the stunning Glass Hall, the venue is also the right place for large-scale event.
Day 3 : April 7, 2016 (Thu) HOTEL BREAKFAST
We woke up at 7:00 AM for the early buffet breakfast at hotel's restaurant.
6 April 2016
Day 2 : April 6, 2016 (Wed) - 🏨DINNER AT THE HOTEL
Upon arrival and check in we have an arranged Buffet dinner for the group at hotel's restaurant.
Day 2 : April 6, 2016 (Wed) - 🚌ARRIVAL IN PRAGUE AND HOTEL CHECK IN
Ramada Hotel Leipzig City Centre is a 4-star hotel beside the A14 motorway and a 100% Australian owned establishment.
Day 2 : April 6, 2016 (Wed) - 🚌LAND TRAVEL FROM PRAGUE >>LEIPZIG
Traveling time is approximately 2H & 41M thru the distance of 259.3 via D8 & A14
Day 2 : April 6, 2016 (Wed) - ✈️DEPARTURE DUBAI>>PRAGUE
Václav Havel Airport Prague is the international airport of Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. The airport was founded in 1937, when it replaced the Kbely Airport (founded in 1918), it was reconstructed and extended in 1956, 1968, 1997, and 2006. It is located in the edge of Prague-Ruzyně area, next to Kněževes village, 12 km west of the centre of Prague[3] and 12 km (7 mi) southeast of the city Kladno. In 2018 it served around 17 million passengers[4] (expecting 18 million in 2019). It serves as a hub for Czech Airlines and Smartwings, and is also a base for Ryanair. The airport is able to handle wide-body aircraft including the largest passenger airliners the Airbus A380 and Boeing 747.
08:20 - Boarded at Gate B2 for Dubai to Prague, Czechoslovakia , Flight EK139
09:05 - Flight Dubai to Prague , Seat No 10G, B777-300 (ABC-DEFG-HJK)
12:45 - Arrival , passed Immigration and have pack lunch at Mc Donald'
Day 2 : April 6, 2016 (Wed) - ✈️ARRIVAL IN DUBAI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
06:00 - Breakfast at "Cosi" near Gate B2
07:00 - Go around Duty Free Shops
Day 2 : April 6, 2016 (Wed) - ✈️ARRIVAL IN DUBAI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
Dubai International Airport is the primary international airport serving Dubai, United Arab Emirates and is the world's busiest airport by international passenger traffic. It is also the third-busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic, the sixth-busiest cargo airport in world, the busiest airport for Airbus A380 and Boeing 777 movements, and the airport with the highest average number of passengers per flight. In 2017, DXB handled 88 million passengers, 2.65 million tonnes of cargo and registered 409,493 aircraft movements.
04:20 - Arrived at Dubai International Airport from Manila via Flight EK335
5 April 2016
Day 1 : April 5, 2016 (Tue) - ✈️AIRLINE
Emirates is an airline based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The airline is a subsidiary of The Emirates Group, which is wholly owned by the government of Dubai's Investment Corporation of Dubai. It is the largest airline in the Middle East, operating over 3,600 flights per week from its hub at Dubai International Airport, to more than 150 cities in 80 countries across six continents. Cargo activities are undertaken by Emirates SkyCargo. Emirates is the world's fourth largest airline in scheduled revenue passenger-kilometers flown, the fourth-largest in terms of international passengers carried, and the second-largest in terms of freight tonne kilometers flown. From March 2016 to February 2017 Emirates had the longest non-stop commercial flight from Dubai to Auckland.
Day 1 : April 5, 2016 (Tue) - ✈️DEPARTURE : MANILA>>DUBAI>>PRAGUE
The calculated distance (air line) between Manila and DUBAI is approximately 4,290 Miles respectively
6,904 Kilometers.
23:15 - Boarded at Gate 110 for Manila - Dubai , Flight No. EK335
23:55 - Flight to Manila >>Dubai UAE , Seat No. 32H , Boeing 777-300ER (ABC-DEDG -HJK)
✅Manila is 4 hours ahead of Dubai ,United Arab Emirates
✅Total flight duration from Manila to Dubai, United Arab Emirates is 9H & 6M
✅Direction from Manila to Dubai, UAE is West (-69° from North)
Day 1 : April 5, 2016 (Tue) - ✈️DEPARTURE
20:30: Arrival at Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal and met Mia of Cathay Drug and have group check in at Emirates Airlines.
21:00 - Dinner at Tokyo Cafe near Gate 110 of Terminal 3
23:15 - Boarded at Gate 110 for Manila - Dubai , Flight No. EK335
23:55 - Flight to Dubai UAE , Seat No. 32H , Boeing 777-300ER (ABC-DEDG -HJK)
05:20 - Arrived Dubai International Airport
06:00 - Breakfast at "Cosi" near Gate B2 of DXB
08:30 - Boarded at Gate B2 for Dubai to Prague, Czechoslovakia , Flight EK139
13:30 - Arrived Vaclav Havel Prague Airport