On 29/08/2010 06:22, Yoav Nir wrote: > The warning to have your destination written down in Chinese, > because the taxi drivers don't speak English doesn't inspire confidence > either. I've never been to Beijing myself but friends who have told me that this worked perfect for them: the taxidriver understood where they wanted to go and they got there in more or less a straight line. > For most business meetings, all this doesn't matter. You either have a host > that helps you out, or your Chinese sales office helps you out. For an IETF > meeting, we don't really have either of these. The host and the IETF do help: we provide 2 hotels and instructions on how to get there. The IETF (IAOC, local host, ...) is not a travel agent though, if you have requirements outside what is provided, I suggest that you contact a travel agent. Henk -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Henk Uijterwaal Email: henk.uijterwaal(at)ripe.net RIPE Network Coordination Centre http://www.xs4all.nl/~henku P.O.Box 10096 Singel 258 Phone: +31.20.5354414 1001 EB Amsterdam 1016 AB Amsterdam Fax: +31.20.5354445 The Netherlands The Netherlands Mobile: +31.6.55861746 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I confirm today what I denied yesterday. Anonymous Politician. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf