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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I arrived yesterday midday ontime (Turkish Airlines via Istanbul) and after a wee bit of to-ing and fro-ing around the visa (they didn't seem to have the procedures quite worked out for IGF folks but nothing major) and was very kindly escorted to a waiting van (Parminder had arrived earlier and was waiting for us to arrive in the van). They then drove us into town and directly to the apartment that I had rented in the centre (through AirBnB) where the young lady (she spoke excellent English) helped us get comfortably settled into the apartment. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Everything worked quite well, with reasonable efficiency and sufficient good humour and would wish the same for everyone else.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>(Took a taxi last night to go to dinner with a friend--taxi driver didn't seem to know the city at all and drove around and around (I had negotiated a price with him before we started). Ended up about 10 minutes walk from where we started… The friend knew a marvellous if fairly expensive 500 (?) year old restaurant with fantastic food and traditional Azari music in the old city very near to where we have rented the apartment.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>M<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> bestbits-request@lists.igcaucus.org [mailto:bestbits-request@lists.igcaucus.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Brett Solomon<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, November 03, 2012 2:36 AM<br><b>To:</b> Claudio Ruiz<br><b>Cc:</b> Ginger Paque; Jeremy Malcolm; <bestbits@lists.igcaucus.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Best wishes for Best Bits without me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'> I just got here (18 hours late) - the visa situation was interesting, but got through unscathed. Now to brave the taxis at 2am :) Brett<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Claudio Ruiz <<a href="mailto:claudio@derechosdigitales.org" target="_blank">claudio@derechosdigitales.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>I'm in the same situation. I'm in London because of my Baku flight was cancelled. I'm arriving tomorrow night. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>-c<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p><span style='color:#A0A0A8'>El viernes, 2 de noviembre de 2012 a las 12:58, Ginger Paque escribió:<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 8.0pt;margin-left:0in;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Sorry to hear this, Jeremy! However, I do think you have organized so well that, indeed, the meeting will be a great success and a solid, productive start to the IGF. See you online in remote participation!<br><br>Best wishes and safe travels to all.<br>Ginger<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br clear=all>Ginger (Virginia) Paque<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:VirginiaP@diplomacy.edu" target="_blank">VirginiaP@diplomacy.edu</a><br><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Diplo Foundation<br>Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme<br><a href="http://www.diplomacy.edu/ig" target="_blank">www.diplomacy.edu/ig</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>On 2 November 2012 06:23, Jeremy Malcolm <<a href="mailto:jeremy@ciroap.org" target="_blank">jeremy@ciroap.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>I am writing from Dubai airport, where I am likely to be staying until tomorrow having missed my connecting flight due to a flight delay. Therefore, I don't expect to be at Best Bits tomorrow.<br><br>Obviously this is a great disappointment to me personally, but since my involvement in Best Bits has been mostly behind the scenes, I don't expect that it need have any effect on the success of your discussions and deliberations tomorrow.<br><br>Andrew has the details of how to establish the web conference - though he may ask one of you to lend him your webcam-enabled computer to use for this - and so I may even be able to connect to Best Bits remotely before I arrive in person.<br><br>All the best to each of you, and I look forward to hearing how you made this a great meeting in my absence.<br><span style='color:#888888'><br>--<br>Jeremy Malcolm PhD LLB (Hons) B Com<br>Internet and Open Source lawyer, consumer advocate, geek<br>host -t NAPTR <a href="http://5.9.8.5.2.8.2.2.1.0.6.e164.org" target="_blank">5.9.8.5.2.8.2.2.1.0.6.e164.org</a>|awk -F! '{print $3}'</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br clear=all><br>-- <br><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Brett Solomon<br>Executive Director | Access<br></span><a href="http://accessnow.org/" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>accessnow.org</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> | </span><a href="http://rightscon.org/" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>rightscon.org</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>+1 917 969 6077 | skype: brettsolomon | @accessnow<br>Key ID: 0x312B641A</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>