Travel plans and politics
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shalmestere read that several of the Limbourg Brothers books of hours would be on display together, one of them unbound for restoration and rebinding, at Chantilly (near Paris), exhibition closing 5 October. And that the recently-discovered Leuven Chansonnier would be on display in Leuven (near Brussels), exhibition opening 10 October. And we hadn't been to France or Belgium in a number of years, so we scheduled a two-week trip to France and Belgium, Oct. 1-14, which will also include a bunch of Paris stuff and day-trips to Provins, Senlis, Rouen, Tournai, and Mechelen.
Coincidentally, the US government is scheduled to largely shut down around midnight, Sept. 30. We're taking a red-eye flight, so by the witching hour we'll already be outside US airspace, somewhere over the Atlantic, on an Air France plane, so it may not affect our trip much, but getting back into the US could be trickier than usual. And who knows what customs and immigration rules will have changed by two weeks from now? Will people have to provide passwords to their social-media accounts in order to demonstrate their good moral character (e.g. having never criticized Donald Trump) and enter the country?
UPDATE: Checking in, and the list of "prohibited goods" according to AirFrance (English translation) includes "Pointed, edged or blunt tools and objects". Can you think of any object that isn't either "pointed, edged, or blunt"? The French (presumably original) is "Instruments et objets pointus, tranchants ou contondants", of which Google Translate translates "contondants" as "blunt objects".
shalmestere read that several of the Limbourg Brothers books of hours would be on display together, one of them unbound for restoration and rebinding, at Chantilly (near Paris), exhibition closing 5 October. And that the recently-discovered Leuven Chansonnier would be on display in Leuven (near Brussels), exhibition opening 10 October. And we hadn't been to France or Belgium in a number of years, so we scheduled a two-week trip to France and Belgium, Oct. 1-14, which will also include a bunch of Paris stuff and day-trips to Provins, Senlis, Rouen, Tournai, and Mechelen.Coincidentally, the US government is scheduled to largely shut down around midnight, Sept. 30. We're taking a red-eye flight, so by the witching hour we'll already be outside US airspace, somewhere over the Atlantic, on an Air France plane, so it may not affect our trip much, but getting back into the US could be trickier than usual. And who knows what customs and immigration rules will have changed by two weeks from now? Will people have to provide passwords to their social-media accounts in order to demonstrate their good moral character (e.g. having never criticized Donald Trump) and enter the country?
UPDATE: Checking in, and the list of "prohibited goods" according to AirFrance (English translation) includes "Pointed, edged or blunt tools and objects". Can you think of any object that isn't either "pointed, edged, or blunt"? The French (presumably original) is "Instruments et objets pointus, tranchants ou contondants", of which Google Translate translates "contondants" as "blunt objects".
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Good luck with re-entry, and in the meantime, I hope you have a wonderful trip!