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addie:
--- Quote from: Alenaveda on September 08, 2012, 08:48:34 AM ---I'm gonna ask all of you about this, because of your experiencie in this stuff: is there a chance that teams fly to Eelde Airport on Groningen from Moscow? You know, Martinitoren (if it's the chosen RB for the switchback) is only 20-25 minutes distance from the airport, and - as DrRox stated previously - the train ride to Amsterdam is about 2.5 hours, that could easily give us the 3.46 hours window that Neobie suggests.
(Once again, I'm only dismissing options).
(BTW, DrRox, if you were referring to me in your last post, the "she" is a "he" :lol:)
--- End quote ---
No. I live close by this Airport (quarter minute drive) and it is only used for summer destinations. Almost everyone who is flying elsewhere in the Netherlands, goes to Schiphol (I go to Schiphol too if I have to fly). I would find it highly unlikely to fly in via Eelde.
Also, I can't set my mind to the fact that they would visit Groningen again. It isn't that pretty, I go there only to shop. There are definitly way more cooler cities in the Netherlands.
Alenaveda:
--- Quote from: addie on September 08, 2012, 08:54:36 AM ---
--- Quote from: Alenaveda on September 08, 2012, 08:48:34 AM ---I'm gonna ask all of you about this, because of your experiencie in this stuff: is there a chance that teams fly to Eelde Airport on Groningen from Moscow? You know, Martinitoren (if it's the chosen RB for the switchback) is only 20-25 minutes distance from the airport, and - as DrRox stated previously - the train ride to Amsterdam is about 2.5 hours, that could easily give us the 3.46 hours window that Neobie suggests.
(Once again, I'm only dismissing options).
(BTW, DrRox, if you were referring to me in your last post, the "she" is a "he" :lol:)
--- End quote ---
No. I live close by this Airport (quarter minute drive) and it is only used for summer destinations. Almost everyone who is flying elsewhere in the Netherlands, goes to Schiphol (I go to Schiphol too if I have to fly). I would find it highly unlikely to fly in via Eelde.
Also, I can't set my mind to the fact that they would visit Groningen again. It isn't that pretty, I go there only to shop. There are definitly way more cooler cities in the Netherlands.
--- End quote ---
Because Groningen, Monnickendam and Ransdorp were the locations of the RBs in the previous visits to the Netherlands (and it was announced that there was a switchback RB on this season's leg).
addie:
Yeah, but Monickendam and Ransdorp are municipalities of Amsterdam and Groningen isn't.
DrRox:
addie.......
We dont know really where they went. We just try to figure out, from the clues we have, what possibly happened. Since you live there, you are in a unique positon to do some legwork and maybe find out if that clock tower was closed on the possible dates. They might even tell you if they filmed and American TV show there this past June. Maybe they wont tell you.....but then again maybe someone else in that village will remember. If it was used, it would have been on June 10 and June 11 that the crews were there.
If you find out that they were not there.....then we can concentrate on the areas near Amsterdam.
apskip:
All this talk of connecting flights Moscow to Amsterdam is nonsense. There are two morning nonstops (including on June 11):
KL902 0535 0655 SVO AMS
SU2550 1045 1225 SVO AMS
There are no nonstops from Domodedovo to Amsterdam
It takes about a half hour to get out of Schiphol Airport and the train to Amsterdam-Central takes 15 to 30 minutes depending on exactly when teams arrive there. That means that there was a substantial gap until the times of the sightings. What was done to fill that gap? It definitely was not a trip to Groningen to count the bells in the Martintouren.
Added 11/29/12 - To be completely fair, my guess that only the nonstops made sense was way off base. Only 1 of 5 teams actually got one of those nonstops and 4 took connecting flights (although 2 of those had no access to the morning nonstops due to later start times).
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