Chris Rowland - OVESCO & Tom Broughton - Transition Town Chichester
We chose not to fly to Germany and took the Eurostar from St Pancras to Brussels where we picked up a couple of beers and then boarded the ICE to Frankfurt. ECO Passenger comparison web site shows a one way trip flying is 99.9 Kg of CO2, but the train is only 20.7 Kg of CO2. It also shows how much Nitrogen Oxide is produced by aircraft and cars when compared with train travel.
Lee Rose - Norfolk Solar
Just a short hop from the heathrow hotel to the airport terminal; meeting some of the other participants for the first time. got on the right plane so thats a good start (though i hate flying.......found out later that i could have taken the train to germany!)
flight was very quick, followed by an hour waiting at frankfurt airport for the plane from manchester carrying the rest of the participants. then a long drive to zella mehlis (did i spell that right?); the further away from frankfurt, the more solar panels i see. 6.30pm and we arrived at BCS (the venue); quick freshen up and then dinner (with such a lot of bread!) participants seem like a great bunch; learnt about banana beer and solar lamps for Africa today. looking forward to tomorrow.
John Shaw - Burnley College
David and I had a good flight out from Manchester and arrived early in Frankfurt, met Dirk and Sebastian who drove us the two hours to Zella-Meplis here in Thuringia, formerly East Germany Brilliant on the Autobahn as the speed you want to go is the correct one and its legal! Drove through the old border between East and West, and saw the old Border Tower... Now just a relic... Arrived at our accommodation and we were assigned rooms on the 4th floor, Met our colleagues for the week over a evening buffet dinner and discussed the itinerary and the week ahead.
