Q-BASE, 18 September 2004

[Triple Nickel]

Well, Q-BASE has come to an end. I think the dance festival was a succes. On the airport side there wasn't much traffic and I also think the passengers had not much trouble to come to the airport.

But the traffic wich was going into q-base was a mess!! Only one way into the airport was available.

The expected aircraft wich should be on display at the festival were not there due to high costs..

A charter aircraft (PH-BMC from dutchbird) brought some festival visitors to NRN in the evening while an Bell206 helicopter brought in some girls wo had won a contest and were treated as VIPs.

At the qbase premises it was partytime!!!

Here's a picture: A full photoreport can be seen on http://www.sgniederrhein.net






Ron

[herm]

Hallo,

war sicher gut auf dem Festival. Nur das Wetter hat ja nicht so richtig mit gespielt, aber im den "Hallen" war es ja trocken. Konnte leider nicht am Spektakel teilnehmen.Wenn ich die Bilder so sehe-schade.
Die Bilder auf der sg.niederrhein Site sind echt super. Auch die Bilder mit den netten Modells sind super

Wievele Besucher waren da? Es wurden ja mit 25.000 gerechnet.

Bin am Sonntag so gegen 10.00 Uhr zum Airport gefahren und habe noch so manche Person mit den Auswirkungen am Straßenrand gesehen.

bis dann

[Copter]

The newspaper "De Limburger" told that there where 30.000 visitors !

Copter

[bravosierra]

Ich war wie angekündigt auf der Q-Base, hatte ja eine VIP-Karte.
Also die Veranstaltung war schon klasse, aber sie war eindeutig für Holländer und nicht für Deutsche gemacht. Es hat kaum jemand deutsch gesprochen und Tokens (die man für den Getränkekauf brauchte) konnte man nur in Bar oder mit holländischer EC-Karte bezahlen, einen Geldautomaten gab es leider auch nirgens.
Was aber die größte Unverschämtheit war (betraf uns wegen VIP-Karten aber nicht) ... als "normaler" Besucher war man gezwungen bis mindestens 5 Uhr auf dem Gelände zu bleiben, weil erst ab dann die Busse wieder fuhren und zu Fuss dürfte man das Gelände ja nicht verlassen. Das grenzt finde ich schon an Freiheitsberaubung, insbesondere weil vorher nirgens darauf hingewiesen wurde.

Na ja, alles in allem wars trotzdem sehr gelunden... nur der zum Teil extrem heftige Regen war echt sch...


Benjamin

[Copter]

I was at Q-Base as well. Indeed, most of the activities where Dutch orientated but remember that more than 80% of the visitors was Dutch and that the complete orginasation was Dutch.

The traffic was one big problem. I guess it took over an hour to get on the base ! There where busshuttles back to the cars. We went back to our car after about one or two hours (at around 01.00 hr)...

See ya

Copter

[bravosierra]

I was at Q-Base as well. Indeed, most of the activities where Dutch orientated but remember that more than 80% of the visitors was Dutch and that the complete orginasation was Dutch.

The traffic was one big problem. I guess it took over an hour to get on the base ! There where busshuttles back to the cars. We went back to our car after about one or two hours (at around 01.00 hr)...

See ya

Copter

Hi Copter!

I know that it was a dutch oriented event, don't misunderstand me, I like dutch people But sometimes it was a bit difficult to speak to or understand the staff as I don't speak dutch
I also thought that more dutch people would speak German.
At one o clock the busses were still driving, but we wanted to leave at about 4 and then they told us there are no busses until 5 o clock.
A staff member took us to Weeze with his car, there we waited an hour for a taxi.

Benjamin

[Copter]

OK !

I think that most of the personell wasn't from the border area. I guess people from near the border speak better German than most others.

Copter