The Plan

So here's the plan as of January 15:

February 1, Monday at 9 pm - we depart Detroit, fly to Paris then to Budapest. We arrive Tuesday around 6, and stay at the Gellert Hotel (roman baths, hot springs, and it's where we stayed in 1978!)

Wednesday the 3rd to Friday the 5th - Chuck Hirt picks us up and takes us to Banska Bystrica in Slovakia. He's head of the Center for Community Organizing (http://cko.sk/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1) and the organizer of the whole operation. We get oriented and organised, meet with the staff from Slovakia, and generally get started.

Saturday and Sunday the 6th and 7th - travel to Warsaw, likely stay over in Krakow. For all this travel, we'll have a car and a colleague who can act as a guide and navigator.

Monday and Tuesday - Dave does training with leaders from the Polish host organiation from all over the country. The group is called SLLGO - The Association of Leaders of Local Civic Groups (SLLGO)and their english language website is here: http://www.lgo.pl/english/

Wednesday the 10th we travel to Sczeczin (NW corner, near the German border and the Baltic)for two days of training with the local group on Wednesday and Thursday the 17th and 18th.

Friday the 12th travel to Szklarska Poreba in the SW, a reputed Winter Wonderland, for training with the local affiliate on Sunday and Monday.

Monday the 15th, travel to Prague for a day or so of R&R, then to Bratislava to meet with Chuck Hirt and Paul Cromwell and other staff from the ECON network.

A day of meetings with the CCO staff in Banska Bistrica on Thursday the 18th, then back to Budapest.

We'll be in Budapest from Friday the 19th until we leave on Monday the 23rd. We will certainly connect with old friends there, and with some folks who are part of the ECON network, but not sure whether there will be a formal meeting.

and home again early Tuesday morning!

Next post - more on plans.