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  English usually works, but having some French will help you. If you do not know a great deal of French, Google Translate is getting very good and you could have this at the ready on your mobile telephone. If you feel inclined to learn some French (or other languages, for that matter), you might consider trying out Memrise, a nifty learning website.
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  When you are in the baggage collection area, remember to collect a free bus ticket! These are ideal for getting to wherever you need to go when you arrive and mean that you don't have to worry about having CHF change on arrival. The ticket machine could be quite easy to miss. It looks like this:
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  In order to go from the airport to CERN, take bus 57 (in the direction Gare Vernier-Meyrin) to Hôpital-La Tour and then take the tram (on Route de Meyrin) to CERN. The tram stops outside building 33, the reception building.
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  The things you should arrange to do on arrival are as follows:

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  On arrival, go to Reception in building 55. Identify yourself (using something such as a passport) and your contact person (perhaps your supervisor). It would be useful to make sure that this person is contactable by telephone when you arrive. Receive a printed temporary pass card (which lasts for 2 days) and get yourself a nice little fold-up map of CERN.
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  Now, go to the ID Office in building 22 (which is near to gate B). Go up to the top floor first. Here you will receive details (user name and passcode) for internet access. You will also be instructed to do the Safety Information Registration (SIR). It is a set of online questions and it is not difficult. Now, go down to the ground floor. Here, you can get your photograph taken and your new CERN access card. If you want, there are toilets on the ground floor with mirrors, so you can make yourself look very attractive before your photograph is taken. Finally, go to your office, sit down and relax after all of that exercise.
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  If you want to have the loan of a free CERN bicycle, you could request one now. It can take a day or so for one to become available. See more details on CERN bicycles here
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 To use the server, you should have a user account set up on it. You can contact Samir Ferrag (Samir.Ferrag@glasgow.ac.uk) to arrange this. To connect to the server, you might use a procedure such as the following:
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  CERN bicycles are provided free of charge. These are nice bikes that are serviced regularly and are a lovely way to get to CERN from Meyrin or Saint Genis-Pouilly. How do you get one? First, fill out this form as necessary. Bring the form to the ATLAS secretariat. There, you can get it signed and stamped. Now, bring the form to building 124. There is a deposit of CHF100 to pay (which is returned to you when you return the bike, assuming you have not blown it up or something). You could consider requesting a bike with a front carrier on it if you think it would be a good idea to carry a small bag (/animal/something else) in it. You should receive an e-mail in a day or so letting you know that your bike is ready for collection.
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