Jul 22
Anyone up for a Travel Tweetup in Dublin in August ?
When: Friday 21st August
Where: We need a place that has Wi-Fi and a good Guinness. If you have any suggestions, the comments section is yours.
Who: Please RSVP in the comments. So far, the Travel Twitterers are:
UPDATE: Finally it make more sense to not have a separate event but to go to BTW meetup September 3rd. organised by Jason.
Flying from Paris to Dublin seems like a short and easy trip. But with Ryanair it can become a long long journey. Let’s see how long a 1.30 flight from Paris to Beauvais on paper actually took.
My flight was at 9.30 am. But Ryanair is actually not flying from Paris but from a city called Beauvais, 70 km from Paris. To reach Beauvais airport, Ryanair relies on buses leaving from Porte Maillot in Paris to Beauvais Airport. Rynair recommands to arrive at the bus departue 3 hours 15 minutes before your flights. In my case I had to be there at 6.15 am and as Porte Maillot in 30 mn from the place where I stayed in Paris, my journey started at 5.45 pm.
My flight took off on schedule at 9.30 and we arrived on time in Dublin. I checked my watch just after I picked up my suitcase at Dublin airport and it read 11.15am ( French time). This means that 5 1/2 hours had passedsince we started out. But my journey didn’t end there. I don’t live at the airport. Actually I am pretty sure nobody does. If you add a 30 mn trip from Dublin airport to my house in Dublin, the real length of a Paris-Dublin trip with Ryanair took a whooping 6 hours!
One piece of advice though - if you are thinking of a city break in Paris, – have a think about the time you want to spend travelling before you choose airline.
I’ve been a big fan of Netvibes for the last two years. This is where I get all the RSS updates from the Travel blogs I follow. But Netvibes has also plenty of widgets that can make trip planning very easy for travelers. I wonder why tourist offices are not jumping on this tool to create dedicated page for their location. Building a page is a no-brainer and with the RSS updates, lists of travel deals or events will get updated automatically .
As an example I have created a special page for Travelers coming to Dublin http://www.netvibes.com/voyageek#Visit_Dublin
On this page, you can find the weather forecast (much needed for Ireland!), recent Dublin pictures from Flickr, a to-do list with some activities that I recommend, hotel deals, events happening in the Irish capital, videos about the city, a map, and Irish news.
If you use the page, let me know if it was useful and if you want to suggest additional widgets, please let me know in the comments.
