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		Pinging hel.icmp.hetzner.com [95.217.255.75] with 32 bytes of data:
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 52ms, Maximum = 53ms, Average = 52ms
Pinging openpandora.org [88.99.27.96] with 32 bytes of data:
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 37ms, Maximum = 38ms, Average = 37ms
	 
 
		 
		
	 
Basically the same here (although fractionally faster in both cases for some reason):
PING hel.icmp.hetzner.com (95.217.255.75) 56(84) bytes of data.
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 44.915/45.635/46.502/0.586 ms
PING openpandora.org (88.99.27.96) 56(84) bytes of data.
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 30.470/31.451/32.813/0.793 ms
Traditionally, germany was one of the quickest connections from the UK, although these days the US is much faster.  But surprisingly we do seem to have a direct connection from a server claiming to be in London to one at the target network (finland I would assume):
 8:  ae0-404.lon10.core-backbone.com                      13.819ms asymm  7 
 9:  core-backbone.hetzner.com                           122.993ms* 
Although looking at that time I guess it bounces through a few relays before it gets there, probably through the low countries then scandinavia, or perhaps it goes via estonia given the distance?
Actually, that core-backbone server probably is a europe wide balanced cluster of servers, because it's there when I tracepath to the openpandora server too:
 8:  ae0-404.lon10.core-backbone.com                      14.600ms asymm  7 
 9:  core-backbone.hetzner.com                            25.658ms 
10:  core22.fsn1.hetzner.com                              30.663ms 
11:  core22.fsn1.hetzner.com                              33.210ms asymm 10 
12:  kronos.dragonbox.de                                  32.991ms reached
FWIW for me the ping has never been especially slow to the existing servers, it's after connection that I more often have trouble loading pages.  It seems to have all been good for about a year or so now though.
*That time may be a blip; I ran the tracepath again and didn't hit that basenamed core-backbone server, but subhosts that seemed to be labelled as being french before normalising closer to the target server (something along the way blocks my tracepath packets, so those never actually reach the target unlike tracepath packets to the dragonbox server.