It was confirmed this morning. 120 AIA members are going to get tickets and it was First-Come, First-Served. I was desperate!
It's going to be a "town meeting" format and we will be able to ask questions. Well, I'm sure a few will but it's not just a glimpse of him. Because that part of the city will be shut off, we have to take shuttles in.
The kids' schools are closed Friday. This whole place is going crazy with security. Helicopters flying overhead, I saw barbed wire being put around the river, police and military crawling everywhere...
We went back to Badenweiler on Saturday to go swimming. We crossed the border much further south, around Colmar to avoid the mess around Strasbourg. I'm looking at my bottles (I get most of our drinks in Germany)...because there's no shopping in Kehl now!
There was a lot of fuss over the schools. The announced that the school 500m away would close but not St. Jean. The director had a fit because she says the teachers can't come to work (much of the public transport and a major part of the highway will be shut down). This morning they confirmed that the school would close.
We keep getting all sorts of dire statistics. Sixty helicopters, 26 world leaders, 10 million people? Okay, perhaps that was an overestimate but the population of Strasbourg is about 250,000 so that would be a tight squeeze (although, the homeless have already been shipped out...)
http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/article_imprim.php3?id_article=12768
http://www.strasbourg.eu/international/sommet-otan?ItemID=130824727
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