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02-24-2020, 01:17 PM #401
Oh yeah: melotonin.
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02-24-2020, 09:31 PM #402Registered User
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02-24-2020, 09:35 PM #403Registered User
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and SBB.CH app. it's fantastic. Not only do you not need to book tickets in advance, but you can, after you get the app all set up with your cc etc., just buy the ticket after you sit your fat happy American ass down in the seat. It will be a few minutes before the conductor walks through to scan tickets. You'll have the equivalent of a smartphone boarding pass for a US airline that h/she will scan to verify your purchase.
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02-24-2020, 10:01 PM #404Registered User
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02-24-2020, 10:18 PM #405Registered User
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I hate when this thread pops up and I don't have tickets booked.
Official BBI or no -- I'm headed back next year to Michele and Serena's. That place made me calm, tired and content in an exceptional way. The trains, food, pow, coffee and beer all helped as well.
Sunny days lunching under the Gemstock
And one of my favorites from the storm day of TAFKALS.
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02-25-2020, 02:50 AM #406
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02-25-2020, 08:04 AM #407
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02-26-2020, 03:50 AM #408
I just downloaded the app. And it looks like there is a new feature this year that uses GPS to track where and when you ride and bills you automatically!
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02-26-2020, 04:24 AM #409
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02-26-2020, 02:15 PM #410Registered User
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02-27-2020, 02:23 AM #411
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02-27-2020, 04:51 AM #412
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02-27-2020, 12:33 PM #413
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02-27-2020, 01:01 PM #414
I wasn’t going to be the guy to pop this convo’s cherry, but I will certainly chime in now. Likelihood of my gig getting cancelled is 80-90% at this point. I’m supposed to be going Germany->swiz->Milan... not an ideal itinerary given the current conditions.
Needless to say that if I have to cancel this.... I can’t even talk/type about it yet; still in grief stage #1.
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02-27-2020, 01:21 PM #415
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02-27-2020, 01:38 PM #416
Corona, the virus, not the beer, has been a subject of some conversation around travel at our house.
Can CH actually close it's borders to incoming flights?Merde De Glace On the Freak When Ski
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02-27-2020, 02:15 PM #417
Yeah I felt like it was the elephant in this otherwise excellent thread filled with stoke about an epic ski trip. But the reality is, this thing could fuck this trip all up. And you would have a LOT of super depressed mags here, myself included. I have been looking forward to this trip since last fall
Has been a topic of conversation here too which is why I wanted to see what others are thinking. Yes CH can close its borders to incoming flights. As I said, flights are getting cancelled to Italy as we speak.
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02-27-2020, 03:03 PM #418
I guess I meant to ack that CH can legally close their borders, they are Swiss after all.
But practically, what does that mean?
Who eats the cost of all the prepurchased tickets/hotels/rebooking?Merde De Glace On the Freak When Ski
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02-27-2020, 03:18 PM #419
QFT. Like I said, I didn’t want to pop that cherry, but I’m relieved that it has been popped.
I Agree Biggly.
My Thinking: the issue is the uncertainty surrounding potential travel delays/restrictions. In light of the cruise ship debacle, I have some reservations about willingly traveling to a foreign country halfway around the world, leaving my 2 small (under 8) children at home with my parents. Grandma and Grandpa agreed to watch the kiddos for 2 weeks, not 2 weeks plus potentially 14+ days of quarantine, plus unknown days sitting somewhere waiting for bureaucrats to decide my fate. I'm less worried about the actual virus than I am scared of the EU's/member state's/USA's response to what seems somewhat inevitable at this point: that this thing gets worse, quickly, before it gets better.
I’m fairly certain that I could find a way IN… it’s finding the WAY OUT that concerns me.
We do.
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02-27-2020, 04:13 PM #420
The current EU stance is to keep borders open:
The European Union is not planning to suspend the Schengen Agreement, not even partially, despite the Coronavirus outbreak all over Europe now, with a number of about 280 persons touched by the virus in Italy alone.
The EU officials believe reintroducing border checks will not contribute anyhow to the slowdown of the virus spreading in Europe, but it would instead turn the countries into “lazarettos” as the Italian Primer said when asked whether Italy would shut down borders as a prevention measure.
“Suspend Schengen? But what do we want to make of Italy, a lazaretto?!” he sarcastically told journalists on Monday during a press conference.
“This is a draconian measure that does not meet the needs of Italian citizens in the field of containment of infection,” he added, regarding the suspension of the Schengen Agreement.
So far, new cases have been detected in Croatia, Spain, Switzerland, and Austria, today only. Despite that the latter had warned it would consider reintroducing border checks with Italy, instead, they have only tightened airport border controls.
The Austrian Chancellor, Sebastian Kurz announced that Austria would introduce more strict controls, which did not amount to the reintroduction of border checks.
“As far as the borders and cross-border traffic are concerned, we will proceed as follows: we will further tighten warning systems with our neighbours; [and] we will immediately order a stop in the event of suspected cases, as happened last night,” Kurz said on Monday.
Whereas in a meeting held by the EU Commission in a bid to boost global preparedness, prevention and containment of the virus, the Commission decided to allocate an amount of €232 million, in this regard.
“As cases continue to rise, public health is the number one priority. Whether it be boosting preparedness in Europe, in China or elsewhere, the international community must work together. Europe is here to play a leading role,” Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission said upon the meeting.
Whereas the EU Commissioner for Crisis Management and European Emergency Response Coordinator Janez Lenarčič said the aid package will support the World Health Organisation and target funding to ensure countries with weaker health systems are not left behind.
“Our goal is to contain the outbreak at a global level,” he said.
In the last four days, the number of people detected containing the Coronavirus in Italy has gone over 280. So far, seven cases have resulted in death, all of them elderly persons.
So far, ten towns in Lombardy and one in Veneto are under lockdown, with some 50,000 residents prohibited from leaving. Regional authorities have ordered gathering spots, such as bars, restaurants and discos to close.
My flight lands @ CDG; guess I'll head to La Grave if CH closes it's border.Merde De Glace On the Freak When Ski
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02-27-2020, 04:31 PM #421Registered User
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I'm both in/out of Zurich. Still planning on that and the same circuitous route in between ending up at Mt. Lodge. Keeping an eye on the news, however. I had things set up to ship skis rather than take with me, but scratched that as this news developed. I didn't want to have the trip blow up and then have my skis stranded in Zermatt.
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02-27-2020, 04:38 PM #422Registered User
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You have so many variables that this might not help you, but I read on another forum today that some airlines were changing flights to/from Milan to other airports gratis on request. If you found out your work gig was cancelled and if you still wanted to go, maybe you would be able to change your flight back to the US as out of Zurich, Munich or something else that kept you out of northern Italy.
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02-27-2020, 08:35 PM #423
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02-27-2020, 09:06 PM #424
Huh. I've been wondering about this myself. Flying into Zurich and supposedly out of Paris, but not sure what's going to happen border wise. And as an AZN, I'm sure I'm gonna get the stink-eye and a wide berth from others, even though I've never been to Wuhan.
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