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Or maybe a boat to Constantinople ... -- nm

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) Aug 27 '15, 11:07

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Yeah, well, I'll catch the first junk to Soho. -- nm - Mop Aug 27, 11:27
That's a long way, and I don't think there are regular ferries the way there are to Greek islands - Roger More Aug 27, 11:14 24
- Right. I would try to make it to Frankfurt first of all. -- nm - Loyola Aug 27, 11:23 13
  - yeah, i think people are trying these things. Last minute flights just cost money. In Europe. In high season. -- nm - Andie Aug 27, 11:24 7
    - Sometimes in these situations, competing airlines offer discounted fares to stranded passengers on their empty seats. - Roger More Aug 27, 11:29 4
      - it might be the latter. it would be good PR if they did. - Andie Aug 27, 11:31 3
        
        Air Canada has partner airlines as well, like Lufthansa, who would be able to help transport passengers to other airports that Air Canada operates to, - Roger More Aug 27, 11:43 2
        
        yeah, the owners have basically gone MIA. it's brutal. - Andie Aug 27, 11:46 1
        
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    - Yeah, it's the suck. I'd probably bus it just not to pay over the odds. -- nm - Loyola Aug 27, 11:29
    - Yep. I would imagine it's like when there's a traffic jam and the side streets and shortcuts all fill up too -- nm - Beryllium Aug 27, 11:25
  - anywhere that hooks into a strong train system -- nm - Beryllium Aug 27, 11:23 4
    - Or go to your embassy if you have absolutely no way of getting money. -- nm - Loyola Aug 27, 11:25 3
      - and then take a train to spain and buy a village -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 27, 11:26 2
        
        Too bad my wife quashed this idea already. -- nm - spamlet, Reigning Blood Feud Champion Aug 27, 11:50
        
        Heh. There must be some online hippy community that would be interested in that :) -- nm - Loyola Aug 27, 11:31
- According to this there are a number of posibilities - oblique Aug 27, 11:19 4
  - The boat part of that journey is a 10 minute ride across the Bosphorus :) - Roger More Aug 27, 11:24
  - and, flights from Istanbul to Toronto this weekend cost .... $1100. With two stops. -- nm - Andie Aug 27, 11:23 2
    - This sounds like a really painful object lesson in choosing airlines wisely. - TWuG Aug 27, 11:27 1
      - they only had a couple routes., it actually could have been okay if they'd had access to a back up plane. They did not. -- nm - Andie Aug 27, 11:29
- kayak to Dubrovnik -- nm - JenBro Aug 27, 11:15
- Maybe a one-way bareboat charter would be possible. Athens to Portugal. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 27, 11:15 3
  - there are certainly a lot of one way boats from mideast to Greece, so maybe drop off, pick up and keep going -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 27, 11:45
  - just anecdotal - one guy was supposed to start college, today. he is still in croatia where he went for a wedding. - Andie Aug 27, 11:17 1
    - Yeah, that sounds pretty sad :( -- nm - Beryllium Aug 27, 11:18

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