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UK Meet-up Planning Thread
Kalkino
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Right. So we have long talked about doing another UK meet-up but the tentative plan tied in with a certain crocheted Old One in Wales hasn't worked out so we need to organise something else. This thread is the planning thread and I'll update as we make arrangements.
So if you could post to indicate interest, what dates or locations are good for you or any ideas that would be great
1. Locations
London - A lot of us live here and for those who don't, it probably is the most convenient place to get to for trains or planes. If we do London, then we should base ourselves in West London, Earls Court area as there are loads of cheap hotels and good pubs, plus I live there!
Bristol - Mojo lives there and he can cook us all his amazing English-American-French breakfast
Paris - Why not!
Somewhere more central? We did Birmingham last time, which was reasonably convenient for many
2. Date
January or February seem most popular - as it gives people more time to plan or work out budget
3. Length
This will depend on where we go I guess, but last time we all stayed over night in Birmingham which worked well.
4. Things to do
Get drunk
Visit Museums or Galleries
Eat
Theatre
Loiter suggestively and/or lean aggressively against walls
5. People that are interested in coming
Kalkino
Mojo (see comments)
Bogart + first wife (see comments)
Daxon
Radiation (see comments)
Bob + husband (see Japan)
VMain00 (UK only)
Vulpine
Corcorigan
Surrealitycheck (is disturbed and disquieted)
A London pub
A London map
So if you could post to indicate interest, what dates or locations are good for you or any ideas that would be great
1. Locations
London - A lot of us live here and for those who don't, it probably is the most convenient place to get to for trains or planes. If we do London, then we should base ourselves in West London, Earls Court area as there are loads of cheap hotels and good pubs, plus I live there!
Bristol - Mojo lives there and he can cook us all his amazing English-American-French breakfast
Paris - Why not!
Somewhere more central? We did Birmingham last time, which was reasonably convenient for many
2. Date
January or February seem most popular - as it gives people more time to plan or work out budget
3. Length
This will depend on where we go I guess, but last time we all stayed over night in Birmingham which worked well.
4. Things to do
Get drunk
Visit Museums or Galleries
Eat
Theatre
Loiter suggestively and/or lean aggressively against walls
5. People that are interested in coming
Kalkino
Mojo (see comments)
Bogart + first wife (see comments)
Daxon
Radiation (see comments)
Bob + husband (see Japan)
VMain00 (UK only)
Vulpine
Corcorigan
Surrealitycheck (is disturbed and disquieted)
A London pub
A London map
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I'd love to come. My problems are two fold:
a) I am doing the financial equivalent of "running on fumes", I expect this to last until at least January.
b) Come January, I'll be in Paris. So, making breakfast in Bristol would be tricky.
Well, we can certainly try and plan around stuff like this, if possible.
Also, apparently there is a museum of pens and penmanship in Paris
I am fully in favour of getting drunk.
Although I still dont have a passport, so that might be an issue...but might not. I'll have to ask around.
If you're British then unless you have one of those ID cards which may or may not be unobtainable after their single location trial, then yes, you'll need a passport.
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U.S citizen, stationed in Germany. I'm deployed right now, otherwise I'd have already applied for a passport. I'm fairly certian I could just go to Paris for a day trip or something without my passport though.
Problems if I attend: lots of walking would be a very bad thing. Sitting is always good. Lots of stairs may also cause problems.
japan would come along as well, I guess :P
First wives are welcome, as are well behaved mistresses, show girls that went to good schools, or whom have interesting anecdotes about the theatre
You are within the Schengen area, so I'm pretty sure (though not certain) that you can cross borders without being required to produce a passport. This does not necessarily mean you will be able to travel without producing some kind of ID, though.
That's no way to talk about French Girl.
Mojo is too classy to say something like that. I think he actually was referring to all his close female relatives
The Paris thing would be neat, but might make it harder for some UK types to attend, due to $$. We could potentially do some sort of less formal meet-up in the city at some point though - I haven't been to Paris in a couple of years and two of my best friends are moving there soon, so I do plan to visit a bit as i'll have free accomodation
If my frequent visits to the continent have taught me anything, it's that foreign languages are a thing they do for tourists.
The last one of these ran from about noon on Saturday to early afternoon Sunday. We visited at least three pubs, a restaurant, two coffee shops and a museum in that time.
Travelling from all corners to spend an evening in a pub is a bit of a high effort:reward ratio.
Anyone have any good places to check out as a group or something along those lines?
What have peeps done for other meetups?
The Birmingham one I organised last year was based around seeing a few museums and a nice meal in the evening, with pubs and general places of interest included. I tried to sort things so that there were probably more stops for coffee/booze than other people would plan 'cos I planned around my knees. People seemed to have an ok time.