The good bus still rockin

national | miscellaneous | news report Thursday May 22, 2003 12:36 by one of the Good Bus - The Good bus

Heading to the g8 summit

good bus is go

The good bus has changed its mode of transport from Dublin to Evian. We do not have enough people to get a bus without charging crazy amounts for it.
We will be meeting on Sunday in Rosslare (Dublin people meeting in Dublin first, Sunday morning) and taking the ferry to Cherbourg and a train to Annemasse. This will still cost €200.

We’ve always been very transparent about our situation with people on the mailing list, we were never sure we could get the numbers to do this. We have 15-20 people going and another 15 maybes who didn’t get the money in. We just don’t have the numbers for a big bus and mini busses didn’t make it much cheaper.

So now it’s like that kind of school bus where the kids get collected and hold hands walking to school : ) Possibly without the hand-holding.

We know we always came across as vague because our price was never definite, but without knowing our numbers we could never be sure of the cost. We didn’t want to deceive people and we have no ‘party funds’ to back us up. We have learned a lot from this experience, and hopefully will learn a lot in Evian. Everyone was involved in the organising to whatever degree they wanted to be and knew what was happening each step of the way. We have let the people involved decide which village we want to stay in and send as much information as possible on to make sure everyone knows what to bring and what to expect.

So at the meeting last night we talked about it and decided we all want to continue to be the good bus, and we’ll travel there together, those who couldn’t be at the meeting have shown their support for this idea too.
We have had amazing help and support both from people travelling with the good bus, people travelling alone and meeting us there, and people who cannot go to Evian but liked the idea of the bus.

Anyone who wants to find us in Evian, unless there is a major change (ah the vagueness again, but it’s all up to the people) we will be staying in the VAAAG village ( www.vaaag.org ) in Annemasse and those people who wanted to travel back with us are very welcome to do so. Ask at the reception place and they will know where we are, or look for our flag. Will also put phone number up as soon as possible.

Thanks to everyone who sent us e-mails of support and advice, all those who are playing at or attending the fundraiser tonight, and all the good bus crew.
Still the good bus. Still rockin.

Ps. Don’t let this post turn into a good bus/GR bitching site if yis can help it. Both us and GR have a WAY more important common enemy and it’s waiting in Evian.