Quoting Linux O'Beardly ([email protected]): > Thanks for the quick response. I don't know if I'll make it; airfare from > the states to Europe is a very expensive luxury [...]
(Hi, son of a commercial airline captain, here.) Mark, I would encourage you to look into the exceptions. I see on your blog that you're a participant in DC Linux Users Group, so you _might_ be in the Washington, DC metro area. (That does not necessarily follow, For example, people on the Melbourne, Victoria LUG mailing list who invite me to join them down at the pub are sometimes surprised to hear that this would be a logistical challenge, starting from near San Francisco as I would be -- rather a ways to travel even for a pint of Victoria Bitter.) Taking the DC metro area as an example, I note that WOW air (somewhat obscure Icelandic low-cost carrier), Icelandair, American Airways, British Airways, Aer Lingus, and others fly to Amsterdam-Schipol (AMS) from either Baltimore-Washington International (BWI) or Dulles International (IAD). Round-trip fares are running currently around $340-500. Inexpensive lodging abounds in Amsterdam, and public transportation is cheap and very reliable, not to mention the city being very walkable. One tip: Assuming you're a fellow Yank, get in your application for a US passport _ASAP_, because the State Department's Passport Bureau is not really a world-class model of speed and efficiency. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/requirements/where-to-apply/passport-agencies.html Other than that, trans-Atlantic travel is really neither expensive nor difficult. Also, don't sweat the language thing. Especially in the Netherlands where everyone seems to speak English with breathtaking acuity, you'd have zero problem. Walking around Glasgow, you might find the brogue bewildering, but in Amsterdam? Never. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
