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jonas’
igoose, been with hetzner for several years now, too, can’t complain.
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jonas’
support is quick when something is not going well, too
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daniel
Has anyone experience with flying to fosdem/summit but not into Brussels? Looking for an airport I can use that has a good connection to Brussels but that isn't Brussel (since I have no direct flights)
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daniel
AMS comes to mind obviously
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daniel
But maybe there are other regional airports close ish
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Guus
daniel: Antwerp has an airport
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Guus
Eindhoven has one too, but the connection from Amsterdam will be better, I guestimate.
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ralphm
Definitely
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Guus
I never used Antwerp airport though
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Guus
I'm not even sure if it has a train station
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ralphm
Eindhoven -> Brussel is around 2.5h, not counting the 20 min bus from the airport to the train station
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ralphm
(and transfer)
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daniel
Guus, k. thanks. yeah there are no flights to antwerp anyway
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Guus
Amsterdam -> Brussels can be done without transfers, train-wise
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Zash
Do trains work down south?
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daniel
probably best for me to fly via CGN. - if i chose to fly that is
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ralphm
If you take a Thalys from Schiphol, it is 1:44
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ralphm
I think from CGN it a longer than that
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daniel
yeah it is a bit longer. but not that much in % - and there are budget airlines to cgn
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daniel
but thanks. just wanted to make sure there is no secret ryan air airport somewhere that i overlooked
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Guus
DE / NL / BE really should get the east/west bound high speed trains working properly
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ralphm
I'd never suggest Ryanair to anyone, though.
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daniel
that's true
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Guus
I'd suggest to avoid Ryanair like you'd avoid the plague, though.
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ralphm
Guus: there's some movement on getting DUS->EHV worked out (trains)
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Guus
Ralphm: I know, but it's slow going, and although DUS is nice - what about Berlin? 🙂
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daniel
yeah no ryanair sucks. i just took that as a placeholder for $budgetairline
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daniel
on the other hand there is a 10+ hour train ride if i decide to do it by train only
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Guus
uff
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Guus
can you do that overnight?
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Guus
or are you loosing a day?
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daniel
,oO(in china they build 4000 km of new high speed rail line every year)
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Ge0rG
4000km of high speed rail to nowhere.
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Guus
Daniel, is using good old automobile an option?
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Guus
maybe carpool with locals?
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daniel
hey jonas’ wanna carpool? :-)
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daniel
but driving is annoying as well. and takes for ever. because the east-west autobahn has a gap in there for no reason
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ralphm
Yes, but https://lez.brussels/en
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Guus
"You must register, using an electronic form, before your visit. This registration application is free of charge." <--
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daniel
i have friends and family in cologne and aachen. so i’ll probably combining it with a visit to them. so 'loosing a day' aint that bad
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Guus
but, good to know 🙂
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Guus
Daniel, well, serves you right for living in a country that's so big! Us Dutchies can circle our country in a day. Twice.
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daniel
serves me right for moving to a city that has an airport with literally 4 connections a day
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ralphm
How does that qualify as an airport?
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daniel
they even have plans to outsource air traffic control to a neighboring airport. and just do cameras and vr and stuff
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daniel
what could possibly go wrong
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SamWhited
We have the same thing in Austin… our's is growing, but it's still really hard to get anywhere without lots of connections
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SamWhited
Although we're actually a legit international airport now, which is good progress!
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ta
daniel, Leipzig --> Brussels via Munic, yeah...