The Canaries make me weep

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Tuesday, May 19. 2009

Posted by Seb Ruiz in sebr

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You might know that Akademy 2009 is going to be held in the Canary Islands in July. It’s going to be fantastic and fun and hot and warm and we’ll be absolutely spending time at the beach rather than listening to some technical mumbo jumbo.

But I have to say - it must be one of the most ill conceived locations to put a conference. It’s far from the US. It’s relatively far from Europe, and it’s fucking far from Australia. The only people that will have a short trip will be those in Western Sahara.

My tentative flight route is ridiculous - via Singapore, Milan and Madrid. That’s 3 stop overs. 38 hours of travel time. Plotting straight lines from stop to stop puts the trip at a whopping 19514.39km. Just so you know just how far this is: it is 32% of the radius around Saturn. I’m not even going to tell you the cost.

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Why not fly through London? AFAIK you have easier travel possibilities from Sydney to London. And there are direct flights from London to the Las Palmas from London Gatwick, EasyJet serves the airport there 3 times a week.

#1 Mamarok on 2009-05-19 09:36 (Reply)

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