salut! we have the same problem as Belarus NC! The french embassy in moscow doesn't accept invitations from inviting persons directly. they say you must send invitations to us and we take them to the embassy. Can you send all the invitations to my home address ASAP: Russia, 127473, Moscow, Seleznevskaya st.,34-2-83. We need the invitation with period of stay from 2OJuly to 10 August (in order to have better airplane tickets). merci ciao Katia - NC russia

just something not quite related to EASA, but to our other main thing in common , europe and its conceptions about it :

THE Irish are among the funniest and most liked people in Europe, but when it comes to being sexy we rank near the bottom of the list.

A new poll has put Ireland second only to Italy for being liked. Germans were seen as the least likeable people in Europe and ranked the rudest, followed by the French and English who, according to a Dutch respondent, "do not seem to know how to behave on holiday".

"All they (the English) do is drink and yell," she said.

But what the British lack in manners and decorum, they make up for in humour, noted by one respondent for "appearing deadly serious and being hilarious at the same time".

In the Reader's Digest poll which asked 4,000 people to comment on their EU neighbours, the British were overwhelmingly voted to have the best sense of humour, while close to half of British respondents thought the Irish were just as funny, if not funnier.

Ireland took the fifth spot overall in the humour stakes while the staid Swiss were voted the most humourless.

But when it comes to sex appeal, the Irish are hardly in danger of being regarded as too sexy for the EU.

We ranked 15th on the list, followed by Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Switzerland and Belgium which received an astonishing nul points from its EU neighbours for sexual attractiveness.

The Italians were rated the sexiest in Europe. According to a British respondent: "They know they're sexy, which is annoying, but it makes them even more attractive."

Ireland, however, did get one British respondent's vote for the country that has contributed most to the world.

"They gave the world Guinness," he argued.

The poll, to be published in the July issue of the magazine, was conducted in May to coincide with the accession of the ten new EU member states.

Plz answer: got one more contact from Ukrain, wrote u about that few days ago, asking to check if there is one more extra place left. So what is it there?

Sorry for troubling, Inara ru_nc

to everybody who's looking for cheap transportation means: check www.eurolines.xy. for xy take the abbreviation of the country where you start from. there are also round trip tickets and stuff like that available, and the network is rather dense.

examples:

vienna-lille-vienna by bus, changing in munich, booked now with the fixed dates for easa: <26 years: 129.60 euros

26 years: 144.-- euros

moscow-cologne-moscow: 163.-- euros.

i think these fees are rather acceptable for these long journeys, especially if you think of the high prices for train tickets in switzerland (for the ones who don't manage to get around, hehe) and france!

so don't forget about it, and book as early as possible.

flo_nc_switzerland

by the way: marko, in vienna they leave at the metro station erdberg (U3) :-)

and from Russia??? what is the cheapest way?? by plane to Paris is about 350eur....)))))(for students) and after this - train, bus.... so..)) maybe by car, but it will be about 3 days...((( Belarus, Ucraine,Lithuania, .. what is your way to get to Roubaix? salut a tous Katia NC Russia

atm i'm trying to find the cheapest/ easiest way to get to easa-land. so far i think the cheapest is to get to brussels and then by train to roubaix. could anyone post a link to the belgium railway company to check trains from brussles to roubaix. or is there someone who could give me a lift?

...any other ideas...?

thx, mark0 (vienna, aut)

hi! i have one question: what are the exact dates for this year's easa? especially, when does it end? although, there are two different start dates too.

quote[easa 2004 | roubaix, france | "micropolitain" 26|07|2003 - 08|08|2003 www.easa2004.com ] from www.easa.tk

quote[From July 26th to August 8th, 2004, the “LaCP” (« La Condition Publique ») welcomes the edition #24 of the European Architecture Students Assembly. During 15 days.....] from www.easa2004.com

quote[The summermeeting takes place between 25th of July to 10th of August 2004] from the application form

i would like to know, as need to book travel. is it going to be usual two weeks sunday to sunday, or extending to 16 days up to tuesday? also, i suppose, people need to know in order to get day[s] off from work.... regards to all, jovan_uk_nc.

For those who speaks French. This is an interactive novel, written by Michel quint and Net surfers about "la Condition Publique"...

opo00000.monlinux.sitadelle.com

www.laconditionpublique.com

good reading!!!

...greg