Support:Social Meeting 2011

Hello everyone :)

As though as the planning for the last summer social meeting 2010 was a bit stressful and just in time, I would like to suggest an earlier planning here to make sure that we find a place this time in which we can combine some sighseeing with fun and seing something from the region as well around the place where we will stay at :)

This page here can be used for writing some ideas around a possible next meeting down :) Discussions in #arianne-chat are allowed as well :D hehe

Location

City suggestions

• Frankfurt/Wiesbaden
• Freiburg
• Some city in the south
• Cologne
• Halle/Saxony
• Dortmund
• Hannover
• Ahrweiler
• Brussels
• Hamburg
• Other city suggestions?

Arrival possibility

Frankfurt

• Train (Huge train station in Frankfurt, smaller one in Wiesbaden)
• Airport Frankfurt
• Car - Autobahn

Freiburg

• Train (Huge train station in Freiburg)
• Airport Freiburg (need to check if Turku/Tampere and London will be in there)
• Car - Autobahn

Cologne

• Train (Huge train station in Cologne)
• Airport Cologne/Bonn (need to check if Turku/Tampere will fly there - London flies, it's expensive but it does fly.)
• Car - Autobahn

Ahrweiler

• Airport then to Bonn (19 minutes by train, Vanessa would catch people from there)
• Train
  • to Bonn central station (ICE for example from Hannover to Bonn)
  • Train from Bonn central station to Ahrweiler (around 35 minutes)
• Car - Autobahn

Brussels

• Thalis over Cologne (29 euro early booking)

Time for the meeting

Dates

Please think about a date/time where you are available, because the time is running fast at the moment and reservations for so many people should be made in time :) (related to the ones who didn't comment up yet to it) - Thank you :) -

Possible dates/suggestions: Date Blue Plassy Katie Markus Frank Astrid Simon 10.2 - 13.2 maybe yes yes maybe no 21.2. - 25.2. yes yes no yes maybe probably 23.2. - 27.2. yes yes yes maybe probably 3.3. - 6.3. yes yes no maybe probably 10.3. - 13.3. maybe yes yes maybe probably 17.3. - 20.3. no yes yes maybe probably 24.3. - 27.3. no yes yes maybe no 31.3. - 3.4. maybe yes maybe maybe no 7.4. - 10.4. maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe 14.4. - 17.4. maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe 21.4. - 24.4. maybe maybe maybe maybe yes 28.4. - 1.5. maybe maybe maybe maybe yes 5.5. - 8.5. maybe maybe maybe maybe no 12.5. - 15.5. maybe maybe maybe maybe no 19.5. - 22.5. maybe yes maybe maybe maybe maybe 26.5. - 29.5. no yes maybe maybe maybe maybe Somewhere in February/March/April ? Vanessa: I'm personally "free" from februrary (from the 12th) up to the first march weekend and up from the 22nd of March to the first of april (which isn't that a long time distance :( shitty term papers!!!) Simon: I have to check again when I can get some free days. But the general date in february/march/april ist fine :) (other dates may be also okay if I can get some free days then) Plassy has holidays from the 21.2. till 25.2. and 16.5. till 27.5. Katie: Can't do: 6th Feb, 19th Feb, or 21st and 22nd Feb. I prefer to do this before 31st March because I thought we planned a holiday and so I saved my holiday days and worked all through Christmas. They expire by 1st April. Vanessa (again :D): I have holidays around eastern (maybe a job there, so that is vague) from the 22. till 25. april. These two weeks around eastern are school holidays in Germany, so we have to book fast if we want to have the meeting in that time there :), could be that I have a job from april to may --> forgot about university :P it starts again on the first of april, so I'm just available at the weekends there, not on thursday and friday up to evening Simon says: I checked my dates where it is possible to get some free days. Some dates are definetely impossible for me. The ones which are marked as "probably" and "maybe" are the dates where I would have to take free days, the dates marked with "yes" are nearly completely safe. It should be no problem to take some free days, but as I said, I have no 100 percent chance that it will definetely work. How long? 3-4 days like in Hilchenbach? (would be thursday-sunday) Simon: Yes, four days is nice in my view :) The last meeting wasn't too short and also not too long ;) Over a weekend is necessary for most people who work normal mon-fri type jobs A Place to stay Hotel rooms --> flexible in relation to number of attendees, everyone can search for a hotel after his "needs" "Hilchenbach-like" house/apartment in which everyone can stay at --> more familial but related to the numbers of attendees, insecure (also related to price) Kind of place Frankfurt Not many holiday appartments or holiday houses around --> Vanessa: Checked some of the main pages for such stuff, but just found the link below wich would take enough place for us all (there are around 10 people who will maybe join) Appartments for 2-4 people on http://www.tourist-online.de/Ferienwohnung-Rheingau-Taunus.html#Beschreibung is that okay or more independence needed? Cologne http://www.ferienhausmiete.de/ferienhaus_details.php?obj_nr=31203#preis http://www.fewo-direkt.de/ferienwohnung-ferienhaus/p545705 http://www.fewos-koeln.de/page3.php http://gloveler.de/wohnung/K%C3%B6ln/ferienwohnung-koeln-rath https://buchung.casamundo.de/houseinfo.php?SearchId=381919 http://www.hotelbb.de/cms/tourismussuite/portal/de/ibe/index.html?kunde_code=null&cleardaten=true&partner=null&seite=result&ibemode=include&internalLink=/de/buchung/buchung/house-details.html&haus_id=1006125&hotelSchluessel=4&hotelSchluessel_p=4 http://www1.ihacom.de/Ferienvermietung/Deutschland/Nordrhein-westfalen/Regierungsbezirk-koln/Siegburg/Haus_61266_1.htm&x=.wgr@oloi079B54D-inq=Ne7zJm http://www.bonnzimmer.de/buchung/details/k125b-ferienhaus-in-siegburg-53721.html http://www.bonnzimmer.de/buchung/details/k028-ferienhaus-in-koenigswinter-oberpleis.html Ahrweiler http://www.koertgens.de/index.php?id=531 a vineyard Vanessa visited that one already and it is really sweet and lovely there, two appartment, for 10 people at all 2 apartments: 1. 4 people, kitchen, big bathroom, double-couch in living room (quite comfortable), bedroom with a double bed 2. 6 people, kitchen (big one), bathroom, bedroom with doublebed, one room with a double-couch, living room with double-couch restaurant + winecellar given How much do they cost? Kymara is too english to try read the whole page. The prices are the following ones: 1. appartment "Zur Kastanie" (6 people) = 105€ /night prices related to: 2 people = 65€/night each more person + 10€ 2. appartment "Zur Remise" (4 people) = 79€ /night prices related to: 2 people = 59€/night each more person + 10€ If we are going to share the total costs of both together (which is maybe ok because we would all use the bigger appartment I bet), it would be: 184€ / night If we stay from thursday till sunday (3 nights) it will be: 552€ at all, devided by for example 10 people (if all attendees come): 55,20€ I'll ask my cousin if she can maybe ask for a special price offer for us :P She has some good contacts sometimes :D (Vanessa) Price ideas Hilchenbach was about 96 euro / person excluded food which was around 40 euro Price ok or too high? Simon: The price was very nice in my view Yeah fine by me Kymara What is the tolerance area? Simon: Hmm, the maximum for everything would be 200 Euro for me, I'd say... sky's the limit baby I work hard for a living Kymara Activities Sightseeing Ideas on wikitravel http://wikitravel.org/en/Wiesbaden http://wikitravel.org/en/Frankfurt http://wikitravel.org/en/Cologne http://wikitravel.org/en/Freiburg Talks? Do we need talks like in Hannover last march? If so: talk suggestions or workshops, I.e. more practical and collaborative but still stendhal development as a focus Personally I think some little focus might be fun even if just one day. Not necessarily formal talks as we may not have the equipment but perhaps some workshops would work well. Kymara Evening Activities outside What about visiting a nice bar or pub one evening? Exploring the city barbecue? --> maybe not the right time of a year for having a barbecue, definetly related to weather and location If we're in a rural location we could bring a ball or something and play some outdoor games .. that would have been cool in hilchenbach inside Playing really funny games like Bingo, Pairs or Guess what I am? :D cooking together? watching a film Frankfurt Maybe driving to Frankfurt one day and explore the city there (appr. 25 minutes away) Cologne chocolate museum http://www.schlossbruehl.de/Home Dome Bonn? (25 minutes away) http://www.phantasialand.de/eng/ Ahrweiler Bonn/Cologne not that far away nice environment Bad Neuenahr close (casino there, nice town) http://www.bad-neuenahr-ahrweiler.de/ http://www.ahrtal-express.de/ http://wikitravel.org/de/Bad_Neuenahr-Ahrweiler (just german) http://www.ahrtalfilm.de/video/ahrweiler.html (video Ahrweiler, german but nice pictures) Attendees Vanessa (So excited as Simon :D) Simon (Uhh, I'm very excited! :D) Marco Frank (?) Katie sure, you know i'll try to make it. Markus Hendrik (?) Kimmo (?) Silvio Astrid (?)