Mardy (Entratas super viages)http://mardy.it/ia/categories/viages.atom2024-02-02T20:11:01ZAlberto MardeganNikolaWhy you shouldn't fly with Aeroflothttp://mardy.it/ia/blog/2019/08/why-you-shouldnt-fly-with-aeroflot.html2019-08-15T19:51:00+03:002019-08-15T19:51:00+03:00Alberto Mardegan<p>I'm writing this while sitting in the Moscow airport, in a state which is a mix
of tiredness, anger and astonishment. At this time I should be already at home,
in Saint Petersburg, but something went very wrong and I feel the need to vent
my frustration here. Please bear with me :-)</p>
<p>The story goes like this: we booked a flight from Venice to Saint Petersburg,
with a change in Moscow. The time between flights was 1 hour and 20 minutes —
that's not plenty of time, but it's still much longer than other changes I've
had in the past in other airports. And I should stress that this flight
combination was suggested to me by the Aeroflot company's website, so this time
should be enough for the transfer. At least, this was my assumption.</p>
<p>And it was wrong: in spite of the flight from Venice to Moscow landing in time,
in spite of us not losing a minute and performing all the passport and security
checks without delays (we didn't even let the kids visit the toilet!), in spite
of us running along the corridors as soon as we realized that we <em>might</em> be
late, we arrived at the gate just in time to see it closing in front of us. And
no, rules are rules, so they wouldn't let us board.</p>
<p>The guy at the gate comforted us by saying that planes from Moscow from Saint
Petersburg fly every hour, so we could just take the next one, for free. We
tried to protest, but to no avail; we went to the Aeroflot ticket desk,
explained the situation, and they told us that we could take the flight 6 hours
later. And no, it didn't matter that we had kids; the employee at the desk told
us that we should be grateful to them, that we could fly for free, as they were
making an exception for us.</p>
<p>Yes, you've read it correctly: they asked us to fly 6 hours later, and instead
of giving us any compensation (as I once got from Finnair, for example, when
their flight was late), <strong>we had to be grateful</strong> for not having to buy the
tickets again!</p>
<p>And I want to make one thing clear: there was no announcement about the
transfer time being tight, nor in the plane nor at the airport; no one came
forward asking for passengers transferring to St. Petersburg and inviting us to
skip the lines for the various controls, nothing. Our names were not called,
ever. All that is the norm in all other similar situations I've experienced. If
that does not happens, it means — but maybe I'm being too naive — that the
second plane is waiting (or that there's still plenty of time to board it).</p>
<p>Luckily they found that an earlier flight, which was <em>only</em> three hours late
than our initial expected departure had three available seats, so my wife and
kids are boarding that place right now while I'm writing this. I'll take the
other flight in three hours, hoping that there won't be any more surprises.</p>
<p>Lesson of the day: always fly from Finland (if you live in Saint Petersburg,
like me, that's close), and in any case avoid Aeroflot.</p><p>I'm writing this while sitting in the Moscow airport, in a state which is a mix
of tiredness, anger and astonishment. At this time I should be already at home,
in Saint Petersburg, but something went very wrong and I feel the need to vent
my frustration here. Please bear with me :-)</p>
<p>The story goes like this: we booked a flight from Venice to Saint Petersburg,
with a change in Moscow. The time between flights was 1 hour and 20 minutes —
that's not plenty of time, but it's still much longer than other changes I've
had in the past in other airports. And I should stress that this flight
combination was suggested to me by the Aeroflot company's website, so this time
should be enough for the transfer. At least, this was my assumption.</p>
<p>And it was wrong: in spite of the flight from Venice to Moscow landing in time,
in spite of us not losing a minute and performing all the passport and security
checks without delays (we didn't even let the kids visit the toilet!), in spite
of us running along the corridors as soon as we realized that we <em>might</em> be
late, we arrived at the gate just in time to see it closing in front of us. And
no, rules are rules, so they wouldn't let us board.</p>
<p>The guy at the gate comforted us by saying that planes from Moscow from Saint
Petersburg fly every hour, so we could just take the next one, for free. We
tried to protest, but to no avail; we went to the Aeroflot ticket desk,
explained the situation, and they told us that we could take the flight 6 hours
later. And no, it didn't matter that we had kids; the employee at the desk told
us that we should be grateful to them, that we could fly for free, as they were
making an exception for us.</p>
<p>Yes, you've read it correctly: they asked us to fly 6 hours later, and instead
of giving us any compensation (as I once got from Finnair, for example, when
their flight was late), <strong>we had to be grateful</strong> for not having to buy the
tickets again!</p>
<p>And I want to make one thing clear: there was no announcement about the
transfer time being tight, nor in the plane nor at the airport; no one came
forward asking for passengers transferring to St. Petersburg and inviting us to
skip the lines for the various controls, nothing. Our names were not called,
ever. All that is the norm in all other similar situations I've experienced. If
that does not happens, it means — but maybe I'm being too naive — that the
second plane is waiting (or that there's still plenty of time to board it).</p>
<p>Luckily they found that an earlier flight, which was <em>only</em> three hours late
than our initial expected departure had three available seats, so my wife and
kids are boarding that place right now while I'm writing this. I'll take the
other flight in three hours, hoping that there won't be any more surprises.</p>
<p>Lesson of the day: always fly from Finland (if you live in Saint Petersburg,
like me, that's close), and in any case avoid Aeroflot.</p>Pensatas in interlingua - 2017-09-20 - Goteborg, turre del coronahttp://mardy.it/ia/blog/2017/09/pensatas-in-interlingua-2017-09-20.html2017-09-25T15:10:00+03:002017-09-25T15:10:00+03:00Alberto Mardegan<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JOyfawHnQiY" width="480"></iframe><br></div><br><br>
Nulle pensata, hodie! Solmente io monstra un parte del centro historic de Goteborg, Svedia.<br><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JOyfawHnQiY" width="480"></iframe><br></div><br><br>
Nulle pensata, hodie! Solmente io monstra un parte del centro historic de Goteborg, Svedia.<br>Photos de Denmarkhttp://mardy.it/ia/blog/2012/11/photos-de-denmark.html2012-11-12T17:13:00+04:002012-11-12T17:13:00+04:00Alberto Mardegan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Le ultime <i>Ubuntu developers summit</i> esseva in Copenhagen, Denmark. Io jam esseva in Copenhagen circa duo annos retro, in compania de Yulia e su familia, ma alora nos non spendeva solmente duo dies in le citate — per coincidentia, le dies que nos offeriva le tempore pejor — e nos videva solmente un parvissime parte del citate (specificamente, le parco de amusamentos <i>Tivoli</i>).<br>
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Ille breve visita me lassava un bon impression del citate, e io concludeva que si io debeva comparar Copenhagen con Helsinki, del puncto de vista touristic, io haberea dicite que Copenhagen es un poco plus belle.<br>
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Ma post mi secunde visita, que mi permitteva de visitar le citate per plus que duo dies, io debe cambiar mi conclusion e dicer que Copenhagen es <b>multo</b> plus belle que Helsinki!<br>
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Io me promenava per le citate e prendeva photographias, sin fermar me troppo tempore in le mesme loco. Io visitava plure parcos, e spendeva multo tempore ibi a causa de lor grande dimension — como es evidente del photos.
Le resto del photographias es, como usualmente, <a href="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/v/viages/copenhagen/">in le galleria</a>.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Le ultime <i>Ubuntu developers summit</i> esseva in Copenhagen, Denmark. Io jam esseva in Copenhagen circa duo annos retro, in compania de Yulia e su familia, ma alora nos non spendeva solmente duo dies in le citate — per coincidentia, le dies que nos offeriva le tempore pejor — e nos videva solmente un parvissime parte del citate (specificamente, le parco de amusamentos <i>Tivoli</i>).<br>
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Ille breve visita me lassava un bon impression del citate, e io concludeva que si io debeva comparar Copenhagen con Helsinki, del puncto de vista touristic, io haberea dicite que Copenhagen es un poco plus belle.<br>
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Ma post mi secunde visita, que mi permitteva de visitar le citate per plus que duo dies, io debe cambiar mi conclusion e dicer que Copenhagen es <b>multo</b> plus belle que Helsinki!<br>
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Io me promenava per le citate e prendeva photographias, sin fermar me troppo tempore in le mesme loco. Io visitava plure parcos, e spendeva multo tempore ibi a causa de lor grande dimension — como es evidente del photos.
Le resto del photographias es, como usualmente, <a href="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/v/viages/copenhagen/">in le galleria</a>.</div>Le parcos de Redwoodhttp://mardy.it/ia/blog/2012/05/le-parcos-de-redwood.html2012-05-19T16:14:00+04:002012-05-19T16:14:00+04:00Alberto Mardegan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Durante le fin de septimana precedente le <a href="http://uds.ubuntu.com/">UDS</a> (<a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a> Developers Summit), que iste majo eveniva in Oakland, California, io viagiava con alicun collegas al <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwood_National_and_State_Parks">parco national de Redwood</a>, e passava un plen die promenante in le foresta. Como il es prevedibile, io prendeva multe photos, circa 200, le meliores del quales io ha cargate in <a href="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/v/viages/Redwood/">un album in le galleria</a>. E le plus significative (non necessarimente le plus belle, ma illos super le qual io ha alicun cosa a dicer) es in iste articulo de blog.<br>
Le prime cosa a dicer es que le arbores de Redwood, le <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_sempervirens"><i>sequoia sempervirens</i></a> (sequoia sempre verde) es <b>grande</b>, ma le photos in le foresta difficilmente succede in communicar le enormitate del plantas, si in le photo il non ha altere subjectos (per exemplo homines) pro comparation.<br>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/d/25539-2/dsc08056.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/d/25539-2/dsc08056.jpg" width="300"></a><a href="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/d/25632-2/dsc08058.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/d/25632-2/dsc08058.jpg" width="300"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Big Tree</i></td></tr>
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Le <i>Big Tree</i> (grande arbore) non sembla multo alte, ma de facto illo es alte 92 metros. In le photo a dextera on pote vider un persona proxime a su base. Le cosa curiose es que multe de iste arbores ha un tronco que par interrumper se improvisemente a un certe altessa; le diametro non diminue gradualmente como in altere arbores. Io suppone, que le arbores se rumpe a causa del vento, ma sovente illes non mori e continua a crescer del punto ubi illos se rumpeva. Vide iste photo, per exemplo:
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Infortunatemente io non sape quanto alte ille arbore es, o si illo ha un nomine proprie; ma io lo trova multo remarcabile!<br>
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Promenante in le foresta, on trova anque altere plantas curiose: un <a href="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/v/viages/Redwood/dsc07867.jpg.html">“bouquet” de sequoias</a>, <a href="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/v/viages/Redwood/dsc07983.jpg.html">sequoias de compania</a>, <a href="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/v/viages/Redwood/dsc08212.jpg.html">elicoidal</a>, <a href="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/v/viages/Redwood/dsc08018.jpg.html">cavate</a> (ma sempre verde!), <a href="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/v/viages/Redwood/dsc07901.jpg.html">rigate</a>, e qui sape cosa.<br>
In le vespere le radios del sol que filtrava inter le ramos del arbores creava belle effectos:<br>
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<p>Pro retornar a Oakland nos curreva pro alicun horas longe le costiera del oceano Pacific. Le costiera es usualmente montaniose, e le strata curre multo alte proxime al oceano:</p>
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<p>(Si vos es interessate in le processo de creation de iste photo, vide <a href="http://photoblog.mardy.it/2012/05/hdr.html">un explication in mi blog photographic</a>.) Ma il ha anque alicun punctos ubi illo es plus basse, e il pote anque haber plagias.</p>
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Durante le fin de septimana precedente le <a href="http://uds.ubuntu.com/">UDS</a> (<a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a> Developers Summit), que iste majo eveniva in Oakland, California, io viagiava con alicun collegas al <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwood_National_and_State_Parks">parco national de Redwood</a>, e passava un plen die promenante in le foresta. Como il es prevedibile, io prendeva multe photos, circa 200, le meliores del quales io ha cargate in <a href="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/v/viages/Redwood/">un album in le galleria</a>. E le plus significative (non necessarimente le plus belle, ma illos super le qual io ha alicun cosa a dicer) es in iste articulo de blog.<br>
Le prime cosa a dicer es que le arbores de Redwood, le <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_sempervirens"><i>sequoia sempervirens</i></a> (sequoia sempre verde) es <b>grande</b>, ma le photos in le foresta difficilmente succede in communicar le enormitate del plantas, si in le photo il non ha altere subjectos (per exemplo homines) pro comparation.<br>
<br>
<div style="margin: 0 auto; width: 650;">
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/d/25539-2/dsc08056.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/d/25539-2/dsc08056.jpg" width="300"></a><a href="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/d/25632-2/dsc08058.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/d/25632-2/dsc08058.jpg" width="300"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Big Tree</i></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
Le <i>Big Tree</i> (grande arbore) non sembla multo alte, ma de facto illo es alte 92 metros. In le photo a dextera on pote vider un persona proxime a su base. Le cosa curiose es que multe de iste arbores ha un tronco que par interrumper se improvisemente a un certe altessa; le diametro non diminue gradualmente como in altere arbores. Io suppone, que le arbores se rumpe a causa del vento, ma sovente illes non mori e continua a crescer del punto ubi illos se rumpeva. Vide iste photo, per exemplo:
<br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/v/viages/Redwood/dsc08233zoom.jpg.html" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="533" src="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/d/25633-1/dsc08233zoom.jpg" width="800"></a></div>
Infortunatemente io non sape quanto alte ille arbore es, o si illo ha un nomine proprie; ma io lo trova multo remarcabile!<br>
<br>
Promenante in le foresta, on trova anque altere plantas curiose: un <a href="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/v/viages/Redwood/dsc07867.jpg.html">“bouquet” de sequoias</a>, <a href="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/v/viages/Redwood/dsc07983.jpg.html">sequoias de compania</a>, <a href="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/v/viages/Redwood/dsc08212.jpg.html">elicoidal</a>, <a href="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/v/viages/Redwood/dsc08018.jpg.html">cavate</a> (ma sempre verde!), <a href="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/v/viages/Redwood/dsc07901.jpg.html">rigate</a>, e qui sape cosa.<br>
In le vespere le radios del sol que filtrava inter le ramos del arbores creava belle effectos:<br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/v/viages/Redwood/dsc08170.jpg.html" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/d/25581-2/dsc08170.jpg" width="500"></a></div>
</div>
<p>Pro retornar a Oakland nos curreva pro alicun horas longe le costiera del oceano Pacific. Le costiera es usualmente montaniose, e le strata curre multo alte proxime al oceano:</p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/v/viages/Redwood/dsc08336hdr.jpg.html" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" width="500" src="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/d/25629-2/dsc08336hdr.jpg"></a></div>
<p>(Si vos es interessate in le processo de creation de iste photo, vide <a href="http://photoblog.mardy.it/2012/05/hdr.html">un explication in mi blog photographic</a>.) Ma il ha anque alicun punctos ubi illo es plus basse, e il pote anque haber plagias.</p>
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<a href="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/v/viages/Redwood/dsc08310.jpg.html" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="533" width="800" src="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/d/25620-2/dsc08310.jpg"></a></div>Photos de Japonhttp://mardy.it/ia/blog/2010/04/photos-de-japon.html2010-04-28T15:30:00+04:002010-04-28T15:30:00+04:00Alberto Mardegan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/v/Japon/martio2010/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="215" src="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/d/18564-2/dsc01167.jpg" width="320"></a></div><p>Le photos de mi viage in Japon es in le galleria, in le album <a href="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/v/Japon/martio2010/">“Japon - martio 2010”</a>. Le data del album revela le enorme retardo del publication, e isto demonstra que io es un persona multo occupate.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/v/Japon/martio2010/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="215" src="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/d/18564-2/dsc01167.jpg" width="320"></a></div><p>Le photos de mi viage in Japon es in le galleria, in le album <a href="http://www.mardy.it/galleria/v/Japon/martio2010/">“Japon - martio 2010”</a>. Le data del album revela le enorme retardo del publication, e isto demonstra que io es un persona multo occupate.</p>