From owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Fri Apr 29 17:16:31 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: sc22wg5-domo1 Delivered-To: sc22wg5-domo1@open-std.org Received: by open-std.org (Postfix, from userid 521) id 911B7112FB; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 17:16:31 +0200 (CET DST) X-Original-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Delivered-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Received: from dkuug.dk (ptah.dkuug.dk [195.215.30.66]) by open-std.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A019EF46 for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 17:16:25 +0200 (CET DST) Received: from balin.rl.ac.uk (balin.rl.ac.uk [130.246.135.155]) by dkuug.dk (8.12.10/8.9.2) with ESMTP id j3TFCUwE054487 for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 17:12:33 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from j.k.reid@rl.ac.uk) X-RAL-MFrom: X-RAL-Connect: Received: from jkr.cse.rl.ac.uk (jkr.cse.rl.ac.uk [130.246.9.202]) by balin.rl.ac.uk (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j3TFFT7H029438; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:15:29 +0100 Received: from rl.ac.uk (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by jkr.cse.rl.ac.uk (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j3TFLJJ4007892; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:21:19 +0100 Message-ID: <427250EE.7010406@rl.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:21:18 +0100 From: John Reid Reply-To: j.k.reid@rl.ac.uk Organization: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.3) Gecko/20041005 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: WG5 Subject: Re: (j3.2005) Touring Delft or visiting the "Keukenhof" ? References: <42707FB6.2060503@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> In-Reply-To: <42707FB6.2060503@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 X-Spam-Score: 0 () Sender: owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Precedence: bulk Toon Moene wrote: > Dear participants in the Delft meeting, > > I am working on organizing a trip or tour on an afternoon during the > Delft meeting of WG5/J3 (assuming that we have time to take an afternoon > off, of course !). Yes, let's do it. It is in the tradition of WG5. But we must treat Friday as a full day, given that we are starting on Monday and all our recent joint meetings have started on a Sunday (see my remarks in the announcement, N1615). > An obvious place to visit in Spring in the Netherlands is the > "Keukenhof" (http://www.keukenhof.com), a 32 hectare park with all sorts > of flowers (literally millions of flowers). However, this is a combined > train/bus trip which probably takes about 1.5 hours (two times). Daily. It seems to me that a total of 3 hours travelling is too much. > Another possibility is a city walk in Delft (http://www.delft.nl). Delft > is a historically interesting city (founded in 1246). There are walks > with themes like "history", "Vermeer" and "The House of Orange" > (Wednesday afternoon). Sounds good! > Yet a third possibility is a combined city walk / boat trip through the > Delft canals (Every day, but starting at 10:45 am). Also sounds good. Is it compatible with meeting for half the day? Are there enough of us for them to consider a special afternoon trip? > I estimate the group to be about 25 - is that approximately right ? We > could of course decide to split the group in "Keukenhof" and "Delft" > subgroups, if the interests are divers. Sounds a little large to me. My wife is coming and I believe Makki's is too. Is anyone else not alone? Best wishes, John.