On Sun, 29 Aug 2010, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
In both the netherlands and japan cases, not figuring it out was an
option... Once I saw what was available in the netherlands I simply
arrived at AMS and took the first train in the right direction.
likewise with hiroshima, figuring out whether I sould be on 08:07 hikari
or the 08:13 nozomi was way to find grained a level of detail to work
out until 07:52
At the risk of turning this into a string of competing anectdotes, let
me tell you what I did for Maastricht. I went to the German Rail
website (has to be less than 90 days before your travel date to
PURCHASE tickets, but you can of course check any time):
http://www.bahn.de/i/view/USA/en/index.shtml
I then looked for trains from Frankfurt to Maastricht with an aim to
spend most of the journey on German high speed trains (and the fewest
changes, one was sufficient). I found a route via Endhoven which is
NOT the fastest, but I picked it anyway. I then ordered the tickets
for both outbound and return for delivery by mail to the US. In this
particular case, the "price cannot be deteremined" message appeared
because of the particular non-German trains involved. German Rail
wrote me back via e-mail a couple of days later with the complete
price, and within a week of going to the website (and about 3 months
in advance of the IETF), I had a first class, round-trip ticket from
Frankfurt to Mastricht (return via Liege).
Allowing for the train changes, which I agree one should try to avoid
if travelling with luggage, I would say that my journey to Maastricht
was no more onerous than to Hiroshima. I do agree, however, that
Hiroshima had much more to offer as meeting venue and let's not forget
the extraordinary measures the city itself took to welcome us.
None of this solves Mary's problem of safety and availability of
groceries on a Sunday, or nearby availability of most things, and I am
of course not suggesting that such concerns should be dismissed when
selecting a venue.
Ole
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