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Adubs European "vacation"

storrsroars said:
If you're landing in Paris, DeGaulle was a sheetshow even before the pandemic in 2019. It's like customer service people working there get bonuses for providing as little assistance as possible.
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HuskyHawk said:
Confirmed. Suggest @nashusky109 leave very early on departure from Paris. In 2018 I think we waited 1.5 hours to check bags.
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Not sure if this is a good or bad thing but we are flying in and out of Orly.

We'll be there 4 times (using Orly to fly to Nice and back) so hoping its kind to us.
 
Been to Europe once

Flew in to Zurich and out from Munich.

I don’t think I will be trusting any future trips to that continent in the hands of anyone other than the Germans lol
 
Rocktheworld said:
Been to Europe once

Flew in to Zurich and out from Munich.

I don’t think I will be trusting any future trips to that continent in the hands of anyone other than the Germans lol
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Funny I read all the time how bad Lufthansa has become.

I'm supposed to fly KLM, Vueling, and Iberia in September. Expecting bad things but locked in lounge access for the outbound so at least if we get severely delayed I can get severely inebriated
 
WrenchFan69 said:
Funny I read all the time how bad Lufthansa has become.

I'm supposed to fly KLM, Vueling, and Iberia in September. Expecting bad things but locked in lounge access for the outbound so at least if we get severely delayed I can get severely inebriated
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Interesting, I never would have heard that

Granted I’m 99.9% sure I flew some American airline (not AA, maybe United)
 
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Rocktheworld said:
Been to Europe once

Flew in to Zurich and out from Munich.

I don’t think I will be trusting any future trips to that continent in the hands of anyone other than the Germans lol
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United flight using Lufthansa cancelled 2 of my flights - ended up rebooking on Delta and KLM a few weeks ago
 
So the next day in Edinburgh was the wedding rehearsal and wedding rehearsal dinner . Because a contest was going on between parents of bride, who simply rented the castle the bride wanted to get married in, not competing, but the grooms parents decided to rent out and shut down the national museum of Scotland on a Saturday in Dick swinging response rehearse a wedding that was 20 miles away the next day, , and instead of a rehearsal dinner for the small wedding party they invited all 93 attendees of the wedding to this rehearsal reception

The bride is very self centered ( as already evidenced) and also had hired an Edinburgh wedding planner for huge money. Who it turns out is absolutely useless. The bride wanted to have gift bags with local trinkets for all the attendees at rehearsal. Did she do it? How about her ridiculously overpriced wedding coordinator? What was the the plan?

There wasn’t one. It last minute ended up being Adub and the step- father get to this pointless reception schlepping 90 bags worth of crap 2 hours earlier than scheduled in an Uber and then putting every bag together and tying a name to it. And then the bride got there and complained about it!

Also , the deal went from 7 pm to 10 ( 5 pm for me) and they had a full open bar with top shelf stuff which was nice, but no food! Just a few amuse bouche deals. Crackers and salmon. Or whitefish. You can imagine what parents of kids were thinking. I mean it’s DINNER time!

National museum rehearsal before rest of people showed.

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August_West said:
So the next day in Edinburgh was the wedding rehearsal and wedding rehearsal dinner . Because a contest was going on between parents of bride, who simply rented the castle the bride wanted to get married in, not competing, but the grooms parents decided to rent out and shut down the national museum of Scotland on a Saturday in Dick swinging response rehearse a wedding that was 20 miles away the next day, , and instead of a rehearsal dinner for the small wedding party they invited all 93 attendees of the wedding to this rehearsal reception

The bride is very self centered ( as already evidenced) and also had hired an Edinburgh wedding planner for huge money. Who it turns out is absolutely useless. The bride wanted to have gift bags with local trinkets for all the attendees at rehearsal. Did she do it? How about her ridiculously overpriced wedding coordinator? What was the the plan?

There wasn’t one. It last minute ended up being Adub and the step- father get to this pointless reception schlepping 90 bags worth of crap 2 hours earlier than scheduled in an Uber and then putting every bag together and tying a name to it. And then the bride got there and complained about it!

Also , the deal went from 7 pm to 10 ( 5 pm for me) and they had a full open bar with top shelf stuff which was nice, but no food! Just a few amuse bouche deals. Crackers and salmon. Or whitefish. You can imagine what parents of kids were thinking. I mean it’s DINNER time!

National museum rehearsal before rest of people showed.

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Knowing you, I can't imagine you doing the gift bag save like that. Does the groom have groomsmen?
 
Dove said:
Knowing you, I can't imagine you doing the gift bag save like that. Does the groom have groomsmen?
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No. Can you imagine your former town boss doing it? Because that's who schlepped over the stuff with me. Imagine that.
 
August_West said:
No. Can you imagine your former town boss doing it? Because that's who schlepped over the stuff with me. Imagine that.
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I'm imagining fancy gift bags full of 5000 calories of crap from Buchanan's, Mackie's, and Tunnock's :D
 
August_West said:
So the next day in Edinburgh was the wedding rehearsal and wedding rehearsal dinner . Because a contest was going on between parents of bride, who simply rented the castle the bride wanted to get married in, not competing, but the grooms parents decided to rent out and shut down the national museum of Scotland on a Saturday in Dick swinging response rehearse a wedding that was 20 miles away the next day, , and instead of a rehearsal dinner for the small wedding party they invited all 93 attendees of the wedding to this rehearsal reception

The bride is very self centered ( as already evidenced) and also had hired an Edinburgh wedding planner for huge money. Who it turns out is absolutely useless. The bride wanted to have gift bags with local trinkets for all the attendees at rehearsal. Did she do it? How about her ridiculously overpriced wedding coordinator? What was the the plan?

There wasn’t one. It last minute ended up being Adub and the step- father get to this pointless reception schlepping 90 bags worth of crap 2 hours earlier than scheduled in an Uber and then putting every bag together and tying a name to it. And then the bride got there and complained about it!

Also , the deal went from 7 pm to 10 ( 5 pm for me) and they had a full open bar with top shelf stuff which was nice, but no food! Just a few amuse bouche deals. Crackers and salmon. Or whitefish. You can imagine what parents of kids were thinking. I mean it’s DINNER time!

National museum rehearsal before rest of people showed.

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Good Lord. I had a fairly "big" wedding, not anything like that obscenity. But we did everything we could for the guests. It was built around them, not us. Our wedding planner was awesome. If you have that kind of money to spend, it takes a particular level of self-absorption to not take proper care of your guests. The rehearsal dinner is supposed to provide genuine food for people who are busy trying to make your wedding go well.
 
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Rocktheworld said:
Been to Europe once

Flew in to Zurich and out from Munich.

I don’t think I will be trusting any future trips to that continent in the hands of anyone other than the Germans lol
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WrenchFan69 said:
Funny I read all the time how bad Lufthansa has become.

I'm supposed to fly KLM, Vueling, and Iberia in September. Expecting bad things but locked in lounge access for the outbound so at least if we get severely delayed I can get severely inebriated
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Learned this week that my daughter is supposed to do two overseas summer semesters for her major in college. One each of the next two summers. I was thinking UK for at least one. But damn, I'm not sure anyplace is functional anymore. Maybe Ireland. I don't even want to think about the logistics of a 20 year old girl and her "stuff" for 6 weeks.
 
XAL index now down to the 56's.
morons on wall street starting to realize 'consumer demand' is slip sliding away.
they should have read dubsters musings on world travel to learn that p.i.t.a. ain't just a loaf of bread.
 
August_West said:
So the next day in Edinburgh was the wedding rehearsal and wedding rehearsal dinner . Because a contest was going on between parents of bride, who simply rented the castle the bride wanted to get married in, not competing, but the grooms parents decided to rent out and shut down the national museum of Scotland on a Saturday in Dick swinging response rehearse a wedding that was 20 miles away the next day, , and instead of a rehearsal dinner for the small wedding party they invited all 93 attendees of the wedding to this rehearsal reception

The bride is very self centered ( as already evidenced) and also had hired an Edinburgh wedding planner for huge money. Who it turns out is absolutely useless. The bride wanted to have gift bags with local trinkets for all the attendees at rehearsal. Did she do it? How about her ridiculously overpriced wedding coordinator? What was the the plan?

There wasn’t one. It last minute ended up being Adub and the step- father get to this pointless reception schlepping 90 bags worth of crap 2 hours earlier than scheduled in an Uber and then putting every bag together and tying a name to it. And then the bride got there and complained about it!

Also , the deal went from 7 pm to 10 ( 5 pm for me) and they had a full open bar with top shelf stuff which was nice, but no food! Just a few amuse bouche deals. Crackers and salmon. Or whitefish. You can imagine what parents of kids were thinking. I mean it’s DINNER time!

National museum rehearsal before rest of people showed.

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Holy crap. How much did they spend on this thing?
 
HuskyHawk said:
Learned this week that my daughter is supposed to do two overseas summer semesters for her major in college. One each of the next two summers. I was thinking UK for at least one. But damn, I'm not sure anyplace is functional anymore. Maybe Ireland. I don't even want to think about the logistics of a 20 year old girl and her "stuff" for 6 weeks.
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Galway, Edinburgh or Cardiff.
 
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HuskyHawk said:
Learned this week that my daughter is supposed to do two overseas summer semesters for her major in college. One each of the next two summers. I was thinking UK for at least one. But damn, I'm not sure anyplace is functional anymore. Maybe Ireland. I don't even want to think about the logistics of a 20 year old girl and her "stuff" for 6 weeks.
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I'd think the selection of locale would have a lot to do with her major, no?

Since I know you lean libertarian, I'm hoping the kid goes to Amsterdam and Prague :eek:
 
8893 said:
Galway, Edinburgh or Cardiff.
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The first would be my wife's choice for sure, not an option sadly. We'd all like Edinburgh, not on the summer session list. Same for Cardiff. London School of Economics is on the summer list for her major.
storrsroars said:
I'd think the selection of locale would have a lot to do with her major, no?

Since I know you lean libertarian, I'm hoping the kid goes to Amsterdam and Prague :eek:
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Prague would be cool, but not an option. I'm thinking Lyon, which is on the list and fits her major. She likes France. Umbra Institute in Perugia Italy is as well. And ugh...Sydney. Sadly her only non English language is mediocre Spanish.
 
August_West said:
No. Can you imagine your former town boss doing it? Because that's who schlepped over the stuff with me. Imagine that.
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I can't imagine that.

After all of this, your wedding will end up being a pool party on Foxboro Point. j/k
 
HuskyHawk said:
The first would be my wife's choice for sure, not an option sadly. We'd all like Edinburgh, not on the summer session list. Same for Cardiff. London School of Economics is on the summer list for her major.

Prague would be cool, but not an option. I'm thinking Lyon, which is on the list and fits her major. She likes France. Umbra Institute in Perugia Italy is as well. And ugh...Sydney. Sadly her only non English language is mediocre Spanish.
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Umbria would be great too.
 
HuskyHawk said:
The first would be my wife's choice for sure, not an option sadly. We'd all like Edinburgh, not on the summer session list. Same for Cardiff. London School of Economics is on the summer list for her major.

Prague would be cool, but not an option. I'm thinking Lyon, which is on the list and fits her major. She likes France. Umbra Institute in Perugia Italy is as well. And ugh...Sydney. Sadly her only non English language is mediocre Spanish.
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Just tell her Sydney is simply a warmer Toronto with a beach. It's boring except for the myriad number of bugs and critters that can kill you :D

I know you're not as big on food as I am, but damn, Lyon and Perugia are great places to get fat.
 
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This sounds like it'll be a fun week for Euro travelers (from tonight's Bloomberg feed)

Deutsche Lufthansa will cancel almost all flights from its main German hubs in Frankfurt and Munich Wednesday because of a strike by ground crew, exacerbating the chaos that’s snarled Europe’s crucial summer travel season. Waiting lines snaking out of terminals, mountains of stranded luggage and hastily canceled flights have become the scourge of European aviation this summer. In a further disruption for travelers, much of the UK’s train network is set to be shut down on Wednesday by a railway worker strike.
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August_West said:
So the next day in Edinburgh was the wedding rehearsal and wedding rehearsal dinner . Because a contest was going on between parents of bride, who simply rented the castle the bride wanted to get married in, not competing, but the grooms parents decided to rent out and shut down the national museum of Scotland on a Saturday in Dick swinging response rehearse a wedding that was 20 miles away the next day, , and instead of a rehearsal dinner for the small wedding party they invited all 93 attendees of the wedding to this rehearsal reception

The bride is very self centered ( as already evidenced) and also had hired an Edinburgh wedding planner for huge money. Who it turns out is absolutely useless. The bride wanted to have gift bags with local trinkets for all the attendees at rehearsal. Did she do it? How about her ridiculously overpriced wedding coordinator? What was the the plan?

There wasn’t one. It last minute ended up being Adub and the step- father get to this pointless reception schlepping 90 bags worth of crap 2 hours earlier than scheduled in an Uber and then putting every bag together and tying a name to it. And then the bride got there and complained about it!

Also , the deal went from 7 pm to 10 ( 5 pm for me) and they had a full open bar with top shelf stuff which was nice, but no food! Just a few amuse bouche deals. Crackers and salmon. Or whitefish. You can imagine what parents of kids were thinking. I mean it’s DINNER time!

National museum rehearsal before rest of people showed.

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ya know, on further review, this looks kinda like the old arcade building interior, in Bridgeport, or maybe like the inside of the milford mall. im starting to have my doubts on the legitimacy of this whole megillah. i mean, there are clues all throughout this so called 'travel blog.' yep, lots of ways to read the narrative with a cynical, sceptical, and disbelieving set of eyes, especially the pix. the one from east lyme started the wheels rolling... im callin shenanigans, and fully expecting wheezing and sneezing dubster to try to put the arm on us for cash. those tales of repeatedly getting hosed are there to play on our sympathy.
yup, feels an awful lot like that moon landing studio movie.
and as to what show this rolling hoax seems like, it's definitely Jersey Shore, season 26, 'snookie learns to drink and drive.' or mebbe that apollo movie. one of those.
 
HuskyHawk said:
The first would be my wife's choice for sure, not an option sadly. We'd all like Edinburgh, not on the summer session list. Same for Cardiff. London School of Economics is on the summer list for her major.

Prague would be cool, but not an option. I'm thinking Lyon, which is on the list and fits her major. She likes France. Umbra Institute in Perugia Italy is as well. And ugh...Sydney. Sadly her only non English language is mediocre Spanish.
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My son studied abroad in Australia for a semester at Macquarie University in Sydney - wasn't sure he was coming back - loved it down under. My friend's daughter got stuck there for an extra 9 months due to Covid and goes back this December to 'visit'
 
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