travel contemplations
Jun. 25th, 2003 08:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jayNext September I'm planning to cross the Atlantic for some field work -- helping ground-truth drilling at the anaerobic Mars analog site at Rio Tinto, in Andalusia, Spain. And a stop in Madrid. Okay, good, I haven't been to Spain and the site's of great scientific interest... lots of archaea, rivers with pH <1.0, etc.
(contemplatesminnaleigh's tribulations, lately)
Anyway, I'm also a co-author on a vehicle health management paper that's been accepted to the International Astronautical Congress, which will be 29 Sept - 3 Oct in Bremen, Germany. The following week, as it happens, so I'm going to try to combine them into one trip.
Nice! Paella and linzertorte in one trip. But... how to get from Madrid to Bremen? It's about 1400 miles... I'd have a rental car, and could drive it in two or three days. Perhaps Madrid-Andorra Friday, to Paris Saturday, Amsterdam Sunday and to Bremen by Monday afternoon. The paper isn't until Tuesday afternoon.
I could fly instead, or possibly get a rail pass... but I like road trips, and if I have anyone else with me, they can share my car for free (but would have to buy their own rail/air tickets otherwise). And in Germany I could drive 200 kph again... hmm. The easy thing would be to fly Madrid - Hamburg, but I'm still tempted to drive it over the weekend. Has anyone out there tried a similar drive across Europe? Is 20 hours total driving time reasonable?
(contemplates
minnaleigh's tribulations, lately)Anyway, I'm also a co-author on a vehicle health management paper that's been accepted to the International Astronautical Congress, which will be 29 Sept - 3 Oct in Bremen, Germany. The following week, as it happens, so I'm going to try to combine them into one trip.
Nice! Paella and linzertorte in one trip. But... how to get from Madrid to Bremen? It's about 1400 miles... I'd have a rental car, and could drive it in two or three days. Perhaps Madrid-Andorra Friday, to Paris Saturday, Amsterdam Sunday and to Bremen by Monday afternoon. The paper isn't until Tuesday afternoon.
I could fly instead, or possibly get a rail pass... but I like road trips, and if I have anyone else with me, they can share my car for free (but would have to buy their own rail/air tickets otherwise). And in Germany I could drive 200 kph again... hmm. The easy thing would be to fly Madrid - Hamburg, but I'm still tempted to drive it over the weekend. Has anyone out there tried a similar drive across Europe? Is 20 hours total driving time reasonable?
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Date: 2003-07-03 10:19 pm (UTC)