Podcasts by Mark Saunokonoko of 9News.

[Erngath]

We never go all inclusive. The meals are invariably bad....especially if you’re a pescatarian......and there is so much delicious local food to discover why would you pay for substandard meals ?

I.suppose it depends on the.quality of the hotel.
We usually holiday in Italy and sometimes it is all inclusive and sometimes not.
But invariably the food is excellent, certainly not substandard..
In fact there was one hotel in Malcesine where the food was utterly divine.
The quality of the food in Italy is  usually wonderful.
Apart from the worst pizza I have ever tasted which wasn't in a hotel but in a restaurant in Sorrento.

[Robittybob1]

If his phone pinged near OC during the time he was travelling to, attending job at OC or returning home around the time of Madeleine's disappearance then I would have expected his phone records to be checked by any half-decent police force. That's how the suspected burglars were located.

Did they have a narrow focus - on those particular people to start with?  Look, I'm sorry but I don't know how they did this analysis.

There are so many variables.  Phones can be present or absent, on or off.

[misty]

Trouble is we can never confirm that.  Two things that we can't be sure of are:

1.  Whoever closed the door how did they leave it?  [Was it left locked, or just shut]

2.  How possible was it for a 3-4 year old to turn the door handle and open the door?  [from the photos I've seen the knob was large and round, a shape IMO would be difficult for a  child to grip onto.]

The door does not open by turning the knob, it opens by pulling the latch lever to the left. The metal knob on the door interior houses the lock for the dead-latch which is activated or deactivated by a key.

[faithlilly]

I.suppose it depends on the.quality of the hotel.
We usually holiday in Italy and sometimes it is all inclusive and sometimes not.
But invariably the food is excellent, certainly not substandard..
In fact there was one hotel in Malcesine where the food was utterly divine.
The quality of the food in Italy is  usually wonderful

Horses for courses I suppose. I prefer to eat local dishes in local restaurants when abroad...you discover so much more about the food of the region and its history.

[Robittybob1]

The door does not open by turning the knob, it opens by pulling the latch lever to the left. The metal knob on the door interior houses the lock for the dead-latch which is activated or deactivated by a key.

You are thinking of the wrong door at this stage.  SIL and myself are talking about the door at the Secondary Reception.  Not the front door of the apartment 5A.

[Erngath]

Horses for courses I suppose. I prefer to eat local dishes in local restaurants when abroad...you discover so much more about the food of the region and its history.

Yes, we do that too.
As I said we don't always go all inclusive.
Just one particular hotel in Italy apart from one in Corfu which we only visited once.
In cities like Rome, Florence, Vienna  we always have gone out for meals.
Sometimes they have been excellent, other times not.
Wouldn't say the food we had in Budapest was very good.
Perhaps just a bad choice of restaurants.

[misty]

Did they have a narrow focus - on those particular people to start with?  Look, I'm sorry but I don't know how they did this analysis.

There are so many variables.  Phones can be present or absent, on or off.

https://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/MOBILE_PHONE_ANALYSIS.htm

There are also various pages in the original DVD section of the PJ files. IIRC the pages covering phone analysis 9.15-10pm on 3rd May were not included in the documents released.
Any phone fitted GPS chip did not not need to be turned on for movements to be tracked. Only the user turning off the tracking device would have prevented that.

[misty]

You are thinking of the wrong door at this stage.  SIL and myself are talking about the door at the Secondary Reception.  Not the front door of the apartment 5A.

Apologies, I hadn't read the discussion properly.

[Robittybob1]

Apologies, I hadn't read the discussion properly.

I did have a photo of the door but I'm struggling to relocate the photo show the big round door knob.

[misty]

This one which Shining took?

[Robittybob1]

This one which Shining took?

The door knob has been removed!  Now if that door is closed you'd need a key to open it.  What was the situation on the night of the 3rd May 2007?

[misty]

The door knob has been removed!  Now if that door is closed you'd need a key to open it.  What was the situation on the night of the 3rd May 2007?

Do you think the knob could have been a pressure sensor rather than a conventional door knob? I don't recall ever seeing a Upvc door which opens using a door knob.

[Robittybob1]

Do you think the knob could have been a pressure sensor rather than a conventional door knob? I don't recall ever seeing a Upvc door which opens using a door knob.

It could be either, but all I'm trying to find out is whether the door confused Madeleine in order to open the door.  Did she try and turn the door handle when in fact it didn't turn but just required pushing.

I've seen video of a bank robber trying to open the door to the bank after robbing it, pulling on the door but it was in fact a sliding door.  Something like that that confuses a child.

[Robittybob1]

https://youtu.be/cgstON22SbY   
Some doors need pulling and others need pushing!

[barrier]

Horses for courses I suppose. I prefer to eat local dishes in local restaurants when abroad...you discover so much more about the food of the region and its history.

Wherever we stay we always go local for at least two days,Cairo was an eye opener.