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Re: Visiting Berlin for 1000steine-Land, need help planning trip
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Fri, 21 May 2004 01:24:04 GMT
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In lugnet.events.1000steine-land, Todd Lehman wrote:
> I'll be taking a week or two in June/July for 1000steine-Land 2004 in
> Berlin, and I'm wondering what is the best (most economical) way to do
> this. I live in Boston and would like to leave Boston approximately
> June 25 in the evening and return to Boston approximately July 12 in
> the morning.
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> Friends here say I might find much better airfaires if I fly, say, KLM
> to Amsterdam and take the train to Berlin and back or ride with someone
> who is driving to the fest from Amsterdam, Frankfurt, or some other
> relatively nearby city.
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> I'll be at 1000steine-Land as a photographer, working on a large coffee-
> table art/book project I began over a year ago which is designed to expose
> the general public to the amazing things adult LEGO enthusiasts build and
> do. Ideally, I'd like to meet with German LEGO fans before and after the
> event, and if possible kind of float around nearby cities visiting people
> in any or all of the Netherlands, Italy, France, Austria, Switzerland, etc.
> I'll also be visiting the Netherlands later in the year for LEGO World and
> hope to make it to Denmark to visit Byggepladen perhaps in the same trip.
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> Is anyone here from the Netherlands driving to Berlin, and would you
> consider taking a passenger? Are there other economical alternatives
> besides Amsterdam? Is the train expensive from Amsterdam to Germany?
> Do I have to get a separate visa for each country I visit, or can I get
> a two-week EU visa? Where would be a good place for me to research all
> of this online?
You can research the visa question at the US state department website.
(http://www.state.gov/ for starters or just jump here
http://travel.state.gov/foreignentryreqs.html ) But I don't think you need a
visa to visit EU countries. I never have. I just turned up and stated my reason
for the visit and voila, I was in.
You can research travel by train within the EU at various state railway sites.
When we set up the Nachtzug trip from LegoWorld to Billund I used the DB site to
do research... start here for the english version.
http://www.bahn.de/pv/view/int_guest/subhome/international_guests.shtml If you
know city pairs it will list possible trains and routings. Even if neither end
is in DE, as long as you use some DB trains as part of the routing.
I did not find the Dutch railway site quite as useful, but it also has some info
if your routing starts or ends in NL.
Travel agents stateside all wanted me to buy a Eurailpass and be done with it,
instead of helping me research specific routings (as for helping me get a berth
on the Nachtzug, fuggedaboutit I knew more about that train than they did).
That's fine if you want to do a lot of travel but it's not a good deal if you
are doing a couple point to points, in my view.
The actual ticketing was done for me by a helpful fan in NL.
Hope that helps.
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