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TAR14 EP3: 'I'm Not Wearing That Girl's Leotard! (Romania)'

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TARAsia Fan:
I can do that!  :-[ :-[

apskip:
I have attempted to use my knowledge of Brasov (my favorite place of all that I visited in Romania last summer) to help us with "Curtea Johannes Honterus-Hof." The addition of Hof is the only tricky thing. I believe it means "courtyard" and there is one alongside the Black Church. The name of that street, which I remember as pedsetrian and not open to cars, is Curtea Joahnnes Honterus. So its meaning is that the cluebox is in the courtyard adjacent to the entrance to the Black Church.

mswood:

--- Quote from: apskip on March 01, 2009, 10:49:10 PM ---I have attempted to use my knowledge of Brasov (my favorite place of all that I visited in Romania last summer) to help us with "Curtea Johannes Honterus-Hof." The addition of Hof is the only tricky thing. I believe it means "courtyard" and there is one alongside the Black Church. The name of that street, which I remember as pedsetrian and not open to cars, is Curtea Joahnnes Honterus. So its meaning is that the cluebox is in the courtyard adjacent to the entrance to the Black Church.

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Very cool apskip

apskip:
I went to the relevant rail schedules to see when teams would logically arrive at Munich airport. They dropped off their marked cars at the Salzburg train station and took a train to Munich Hbf, trnsafering from there to Munich Flughafen (airport). The schedules from Munich HBf to the airport are 6 every afternoon hour taking 39 to 41 minutes from Munich. The schedules from Salzburg  all the way to MUchich Flughafen (on average once per hour) are:

1103 1317
1152 1417
1303 1526
1314 1537
1352 1557
1441 1657
1552 1757
1617 1827

apskip:
As you can guess, getting the airplane flight information correct is important to me, paritcularly finding out how screwed Brad/Victoria. Here is what I have found:

The nonstop flights Munich to Bucharest (MUC to OTP) are:
LH3480 1525 1825
RO312 1645 1945
LH3424 2130 0025+1

So, LH3480 is the one that Tammy/Victor had the "return to Munich" trip on and then they rebooked LH3424. Three teams caught RO312, Mel/Michael, Amanda/Kris and Margie/Luke. Mark/Michael, Kisha/Jen, Jaime/Cara, and Christie/Jodi also got LH3424 with Tammy/Victor. Brad/Victoria tried to leapfrog ahead by taking the earlier departing flight, KL1798 1730 1915. That was incredibly foolish for 2 reasons. The first is that the conneciton KL134 did not arrive OTP until 0010+1, only a 15 minute gain over LH3424. The second is that the connection was supposed to be 65 minutes but the risk like Uchenna/JOyce in Frankfurt was enormous. It would have been preferable for them to travel with the rest of the pack.

It looks to me that KLM Airlines totally screwed up Brad/Victoria's trip. KLM was greedy for the entire fare, so they conveniently overlooked the alternative booking of LH4700 1700 1835. That 40 minutes longer to connect is amsterdam probably would have caused Brad/Victoria to make the connection. Then KLM screwed them again, by not sending them on LH4705 AMS MUC(!!!) 0715 0835 connecting to LH3400 0920 1215. That would have been superior to the flight KL1389 AMS OTP 0950 1335, which arrives 80 minutes later.

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