XSF Discussion - 2018-11-26

igoose, been with hetzner for several years now, too, can’t complain.

support is quick when something is not going well, too

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)

AMS comes to mind obviously

But maybe there are other regional airports close ish

daniel: Antwerp has an airport

Eindhoven has one too, but the connection from Amsterdam will be better, I guestimate.

Definitely

I never used Antwerp airport though

I'm not even sure if it has a train station

Eindhoven -> Brussel is around 2.5h, not counting the 20 min bus from the airport to the train station

(and transfer)

Guus, k. thanks. yeah there are no flights to antwerp anyway

Amsterdam -> Brussels can be done without transfers, train-wise

Do trains work down south?

probably best for me to fly via CGN. - if i chose to fly that is

If you take a Thalys from Schiphol, it is 1:44

I think from CGN it a longer than that

yeah it is a bit longer. but not that much in % - and there are budget airlines to cgn

but thanks. just wanted to make sure there is no secret ryan air airport somewhere that i overlooked

DE / NL / BE really should get the east/west bound high speed trains working properly

I'd never suggest Ryanair to anyone, though.

that's true

I'd suggest to avoid Ryanair like you'd avoid the plague, though.

Guus: there's some movement on getting DUS->EHV worked out (trains)

Ralphm: I know, but it's slow going, and although DUS is nice - what about Berlin? 🙂

yeah no ryanair sucks. i just took that as a placeholder for $budgetairline

on the other hand there is a 10+ hour train ride if i decide to do it by train only

uff

can you do that overnight?

or are you loosing a day?

,oO(in china they build 4000 km of new high speed rail line every year)

4000km of high speed rail to nowhere.

Daniel, is using good old automobile an option?

maybe carpool with locals?

hey jonas’ wanna carpool? :-)

but driving is annoying as well. and takes for ever. because the east-west autobahn has a gap in there for no reason

Yes, but https://lez.brussels/en

"You must register, using an electronic form, before your visit. This registration application is free of charge." <--

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

but, good to know 🙂

Daniel, well, serves you right for living in a country that's so big! Us Dutchies can circle our country in a day. Twice.

serves me right for moving to a city that has an airport with literally 4 connections a day

How does that qualify as an airport?

they even have plans to outsource air traffic control to a neighboring airport. and just do cameras and vr and stuff

what could possibly go wrong

We have the same thing in Austin… our's is growing, but it's still really hard to get anywhere without lots of connections

Although we're actually a legit international airport now, which is good progress!

daniel, Leipzig --> Brussels via Munic, yeah...