Allschwil Meeting 2016

[Guenter Schink]

(02-05-2016 06:31 PM)HP-Collection Wrote:  I'm happy to let you know that we have a even number of year and so we will have a next Allschwil Meeting this autumn. Before we fix the date: Does someone knows the dates of the London and the american events?

Matthias

At the last HHC meeting at Nashville we agreed upon a meeting at Vancouver,BC on 17/18 September. Geoff volunteered to do all the preparatory work, necessary to satisfy the committee's needs for proper contracting.

After a while Geoff indicated that the meeting would need to be postponed by one week (24/25 September) in order to enable accommodation arrangements. Now we haven't heard anything for a while. So the date is unsure - Vancouver also?

This is unfortunate, because one of the reasons for establishing the date and location so early was to keep the costs low for overseas visitors. The hope was to have the arrangements set by the end of last year. As this didn't happen, I can watch the flight fares increase weekly. As we intend to use the occasion for a sight seeing tour through BC using an RV, we have also missed the opportunities for "early bird" discount.

All in all my expected expenses are already about 400 US$ higher than they would have been with the original intent.

Although I can't expect that these things will be arranged to specifically satisfy my needs, I'm somewhat unhappy with this situation.

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Günter