+++ Gaudenz Steinlin [2009-05-02 01:25 +0200]: > The train back would be on Thursday 07/30. As far > as I understand it, Thursday is the general departure day. Is this > correct or does the conference end on Thursday evening and most people are > staying until Friday?
It finishes Thursday evg and most people are leaving on Friday. > To see if there is sufficent interest and when most people want to > travel I setup a survey on Doodle. Of course it is also possible to > only travel one way with the group. Please fill the survey at the > following location if you are interested: > http://www.doodle.com/57625rrviyhbg676 I ticked the 2009-07-30 trains but would prefer 2009-07-31 trains, and those should be in the survey. > If you have better ideas for how to travel to Debconf by train, feel > free to propose alternative itineraries. There seem to to be two options for heading to Germany/Switzerland/Austria: (the first (via paris) from Bahn.de on the phone, the second (via Barcelona) from bahn.de website): Caceres Fr, 31.07.09 dep 09:25 TLG 197 Talgo Madrid-Puerta de A Fr, 31.07.09 arr 12:51 Madrid-Chamartin Fr, 31.07.09 dep 19:00 EN 407 £81 EuroNight Sleeper train Paris Austerlitz Sa, 01.08.09 arr 08:27 Paris Austerlitz Sa, 01.08.09 dep 08:27 transfer 40 min. Continue by Metro 5 direction Bobigny Paris Est Sa, 01.08.09 arr 09:07 Paris Est Sa, 01.08.09 dep 09:09 TGV 9553 £36 TGV Subject to compulsory reservation, Bordbistro, special fare Mannheim Hbf Sa, 01.08.09 arr 12:14 Mannheim Hbf Sa, 01.08.09 dep 12:31 ICE 595 £33 Intercity-Express Bordrestaurant Stuttgart Hbf Sa, 01.08.09 arr 13:08 Stuttgart Hbf Sa, 01.08.09 dep 13:58 EC 319 Eurocity (Onwards to Austria via Salzburg) £150 Madrid->Stuttgart, 6hrs in madrid en-route. Caceres Fr, 31.07.09 dep 09:25 TLG 197 Talgo Madrid-Puerta de A Fr, 31.07.09 arr 12:51 Madrid-Puerta de A Fr, 31.07.09 dep 13:30 AVE 3133 £98 AVE Sleeperette Barcelona Sants Fr, 31.07.09 arr 16:54 Barcelona Sants Fr, 31.07.09 dep 17:16 R 15839 £27.50 Regionalzug Cerbere Fr, 31.07.09 arr 20:00 Cerbere Fr, 31.07.09 dep 20:42 NZ 4392 £55.50 Nachtzug Couchette train, Subject to compulsory reservation Mulhouse Ville Sa, 01.08.09 arr 07:20 Mulhouse Ville Sa, 01.08.09 dep 07:30 RE 96275 £6 Regional-Express Basel SNCF Sa, 01.08.09 arr 07:55 Basel SBB Sa, 01.08.09 dep 08:14 EC 163 OEC 163 Eurocity (Zurich dep 09:40) (Onwards to Austria via Salzburg) £187 madrid->Basel The madrid->Barcelona train seems expensive, making this route less attractive (more money, more changes, although there is less hanging around in Madrid). Is your option the same as this latter, or something different? Will it cost significanly less than GBP 150 (165e)? If not I might as well just book the first route (whilst the cheap tickets are still available)... I need to decide soon. I'd like to travel with a group though so if it can be arranged reasonably quickly and the price is OK then that's good. Wookey -- Principal hats: iEndian - Balloonboard - Toby Churchill - Emdebian http://wookware.org/ _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
