[governance] curious note on nairobi and brussels...

[Roland Perry]

In message <BB18CD4D-A7C4-4F65-88DD-C646BEE90469 at cafonso.ca>, at 
11:04:00 on Mon, 5 Jul 2010, Carlos A. Afonso <ca at cafonso.ca> writes
>Another note on the treatment of participants in Brussels: buses took 
>us from two hotels and the convention center to the "gala dinner". On 
>return nearly midnight the bus drivers stopped in a place near the 
>convention center, far from the hotels... And this was it. Walk, take a 
>taxi said the drivers

Were you in Paris - there we had to get the subway to and from the Gala 
dinner. And with the Brussels convention centre literally across the 
street from the Central Station, it's hardly in the middle of nowhere.

The disappointment, if any, was they way they collected (at registration 
and dinner ticket issue) a list of hotels, then pretty much ignored the 
results. If it had been clear from the start that shuttles were to/from 
the venue only, people's expectations would have been set.

One of my abiding memories of the IGF at Sharm was wandering around 
after the sessions and socials exclaiming "Golf" "Golf", while looking 
for the long suffering shuttle bus back to the Martim Jolie Ville Golf 
Resort. For those who weren't there, about half the hotels seemed to be 
called "Martim Jolie Ville <something>" and you soon got used to cutting 
out the redundant words.
-- 
Roland Perry
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