Yay! I'm off to Europe in July 2005 once again

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About what I figured, Ed -- thanks!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 24 February 2005 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Check the regular airlines as well. I've found some deals better than the budget airlines the last few times i've flown. check the airlines directly as well as the ticket sites (KLM, BMI, BA, SN Airways).

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 24 February 2005 18:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, Nath had suggested SN and I'd already viewed some flights. Completely blanked on KLM though, you're right. BMI and BA, both unfamiliar to me...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 24 February 2005 18:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Probably a bit far ahead for really good deals on the scheduled airlines right now, especially right now.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 24 February 2005 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Okay, I have a pretty solid itinerary now, all connecting tickets bought except for the train between Brussels and Amsterdam:

July 8th - 11th -- London
July 11th - 13th -- Glasgow
July 13th - 15th -- Brussels
July 15th - 17th -- Amsterdam
July 17th - 28th -- Venice, Padua, Urbino, etc.
July 28th - 30th -- London

...and then home with an hour long stopover in Chicago. Rah!

My thanks to everyone who's offered to host or act as back-up. :-) Turns out I need a place to crash in London still, though, so if I could bum some couchspace off somebody, please? Thea and her husband were going to do the honors but they've had to take another job assignment in Miami instead.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 4 March 2005 22:43 (nineteen years ago) link

im pretty sure my work is taking me to cannes in june! if that happens, i'm totally doing spain the week before (hello sonar) and london the week after.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 4 March 2005 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link

*jealous* But I can't complain, it's just that I was talking about SONAR with a friend the other day. One day!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 4 March 2005 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link

hopefully see you in glasgow, ned.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 4 March 2005 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Rah! :-) Yes, there will be a FAP darn it. Or two.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 4 March 2005 22:59 (nineteen years ago) link

My thanks to everyone who's offered to host or act as back-up. :-)-- Ned Raggett

Oh maaaan... I would've signed up for them back vox too! If only your dates were any nearer :)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 4 March 2005 22:59 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll be in Lisboa, Paris, Londonne...August September

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:01 (nineteen years ago) link

The return of the native.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:06 (nineteen years ago) link

i will make sure i am in london for the inevitable FAP.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Saturday, 5 March 2005 00:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh there'll be more than one if I have my way.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 March 2005 00:42 (nineteen years ago) link

When you coming back to Melbourne, Ned? I still havent met you damn it!

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 5 March 2005 03:56 (nineteen years ago) link

hopefully, see you, in glasgow, cozen.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 5 March 2005 04:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Trayce -- I hope that my next big trip shall be a return to your general clime. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 March 2005 04:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Huzzah!

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 5 March 2005 04:18 (nineteen years ago) link

ill be in italy during july as well but im in sicily for a family wedding. i doubt ill have time to hang...

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Saturday, 5 March 2005 06:07 (nineteen years ago) link

why padua in particular ned?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 5 March 2005 18:04 (nineteen years ago) link

rah, RJG!

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 5 March 2005 18:49 (nineteen years ago) link

why padua in particular ned?

Easy, m'fren -- Marco Damiani, occasional poster to ILM and friend of mine for almost five years now, gave me the impetus to visit Italy in the first place by kindly inviting me over to stay with his girlfriend (and now baby son!) as well as his family. As he lives in Padua, there ya go! Venice is where I'll fly in and out of, Urbino is where his sister lives, etc.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 March 2005 18:55 (nineteen years ago) link

flying in and out of venice, hiss booo.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 5 March 2005 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link

What, am I destroying the environment? (I mean, any more than I am.) It's strictly for convenience and price, Ed, I can't afford the train from Amsterdam and that's the nearest airport to where Marco lives, etc.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 March 2005 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, yes you are. It pains me that air travel is artificially cheap.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 5 March 2005 19:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry, I don't want to harsh your buzz. It's the fault of the system, not you.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 5 March 2005 19:04 (nineteen years ago) link

I've long since realized it's hard to feel smug about not having a car given the counterbalances with all the travel I end up doing. Thus, however, are we all complicit.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 March 2005 19:20 (nineteen years ago) link

let us all bow our heads in shame.

padua is a very nice city, there's just not particularly much to see there, which is why i asked! venice on the other hand is dreamy! have you read the aspern papers?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 5 March 2005 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Why I guess I'll have to!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:33 (nineteen years ago) link

IS there anything I can do to stop air travel? I can be reached at this address.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 5 March 2005 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link

bring it with you, ned! that's what i did!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 6 March 2005 00:53 (nineteen years ago) link

adam you could do what Mr Garrison did in that episode of South Park...

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Sunday, 6 March 2005 01:02 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Revive because holy heck it's just two months away now! :-) To go over itinerary again:

July 8th - 11th -- London
July 11th - 13th -- Glasgow
July 13th - 15th -- Brussels
July 15th - 17th -- Amsterdam
July 17th - 28th -- Venice, Padua, Urbino, etc.
July 28th - 30th -- London

Any initial thoughts for foregatherings or whatever, post away. Will start more specific threads next month, I guess.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 May 2005 13:38 (eighteen years ago) link

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