Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 16:52:02 08/15/00
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On August 15, 2000 at 19:44:17, Pete Galati wrote: >On August 15, 2000 at 19:05:15, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>I just got back an email. I travel by train to London. >>This is not cheap. By boat is even more expensive bye the way. >>Hotel is expensive. >> >>All acceptible. >> >>But unacceptible is next email i got back: >> >>"Dear Vincent >> >>It is possible to hire a monitor but it is very expensive. Hire £130 >>each plus delivery and collection (which might be a further £60). >> >>15" TFT Flat Screen. >> >>Let me know if this is what you want. Sorry about the price. >> >>Regards, >> >>Tony" >> >>I can buy a new IIYAMA 17'' in any store for that price. >> >>Is it so hard to get a few monitors in a city that big? > >Maybe you can get a loner from someone in the area if you ca arrange it ahead of >time. Really, you travel by train to London? Do they have a tunnel? > >Pete I go to paris by train. Then i continue my travel together with Franck Zibi to London. Despite the fact that Netherlands is just 100 KM away from coast of the island england, travelling by boat is at least $380. Then you land in Dover or something and need to travel by hours on the LEFT (i'm not used to driving on the left) to the hotel. That's all real tough to do. I already consider myself a kamikaze in the traffic. So this is not a great option. Apart from that the traintrip has been booked already as far as i know! I guess without counting the hardware, food and without drinks added that this all costs me about 1000US$. The funny thing is perhaps that as secretary of one of the bigger chessclubs in this country is am used to organize tournaments, and those usually hardly have entry fee. My entry fee is 250US dollar for just 9 games! renting tournament rooms in the middle of one of the bigger cities is not cheap, but in Utrecht we can hire for about 1000US$ a hall big enough to fit 16 participants with a computer. With some luck you can even easily fit them in an university, as they won't miss that small room for a few days anyway. Average tournament here has like 200 people joining.
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