Coordinates of the Rendezvous

Post by **Zyx** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 1:41 pm

Information about the tube's strike: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/

Zyx (Benjamin) & Zyxette (Ileana)
-> bprieu attttt yahoo dottiething com
->dates of stay: unknown yet.

Ameena (Elana) :
-> ekky84 attttt hotmail dottiething com
->from thursday to sunday

Beowuuf (Michael) :
-> beowuuf attttt yahoo dottiething com
-> thursday & friday

Linflas (Guillaume) :
-> romerogu atttttt hotmail dottiething com
->from thursday 8pm to sunday 6pm

Lunever (Tobias) & Safadia (Iris) :
-> Lunever attttt yahoo dottiething de
-> Safadia2002 attttt yahoo dottiething de
-> Wednesday 5th to Monday 10th

Cowsmanaut (Adam):
-> cowsmanaut attttt gmail dottiething com
->from wednesday 9am to tuesday

Gambit (Matt):
-> mail?
->dates of the stay?

zurman, ParuNexus, PadTheMad, copperman, PaulH, Sera, MadMunky, thieves like us (aka Jim Ratkos) ???
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THURSDAY 6th:
Zyx, Zyxette, Beowuuf, Ameena, Linflas, Lunever & Safadia, Cowsmanaut, Gambit
central pub/restauraunt

FRIDAY 7th:
Zyx, Zyxette, 1/2 Beowuuf, Ameena, Linflas, Lunever & Safadia, Cowsmanaut, Gambit
Queens Hotel
122 Church Road, Crystal Palace, SE19 2UG, London

SATURDAY 8th:
Linflas, Zyx, Zyxette, Cowsmanaut, Ameena, Lunever & Safadia

SUNDAY 9th:
Linflas, Zyx, Zyxette, Cowsmanaut, Ameena, Lunever & Safadia

MONDAY 10th:
Cowsmanaut, Lunever & Safadia

TUESDAY 11th:
Cowsmanaut

Put all your data here and I'll edit the first post to centralize it all.

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 2:40 pm

Thursday - central pub./resteraunt (not decided yet)
Friday - crystal palace area hotel conference room as a base to meet

Me - comign directly from work thursday, possibly intermittent attendance friday depending on needs of india trip (Flying saturday morning first thing)

Mail - use beowuuf attttt yahoo dottiething com for anything not urgent, ask lunever for my alternate e-mail or better mobile number to text if it's urgent

Adamo · Post by **Adamo** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 3:15 pm

Zyx wrote:

(...) Adamo (...)

Sorry, I can`t !!!

I would like PaulH to meet with you, especially that he`s from Wales! Someone should call/write him immediatelly!! I`ll write him email now, but someone else should do it either - my emails doesn`t arrive sometimes.

Post by **linflas** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:15 pm

Linflas (Guillaume) :
THURSDAY 6th: coming from work directly (merci Eurostar

)
=> 19:58 at Waterloo Station. Ok for the evening, i hope i will be able to find my hotel by night !
FRIDAY 7th: yeah!
SATURDAY 8th: yeah !
SUNDAY 9th: yeah ! => i leave at 17:59.

mail : romerogu atttttt hotmail dottiething com or ask lunever too for my imode mail and mobile number.

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:48 pm

Oh, in thaaaaat case I can meet you at waterloo

If ameena is arriving evening, can probabyl grab her come back for you then onwards!

Adamo · Post by **Adamo** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:53 pm

I hope GG would come! it would be great if you meet with him- he lives in London, so maybe..!

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 9:30 pm

I can be reached at gmail. you already know my user name

I need one day in there somewhere to use my ticket for the stonehenge/windsor castle/roman baths thingy.

pub will be interesting, though if they are like the ones here, dificult to speak at, as they do tend to get noisy. Though I can't think of anything else better..

I want to try to have my cell working out there if I can manage it. Not sure the cost on that. If so though, I'll provide the temporary number here.

moo

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 10:08 pm

That's why I want to get a separate area, like you usually see stag nights or office parties gettign the use of a downstairs area for a night so you can be away from the usual jukebox

Pubs here went smoke-free too, so you won't have to return to the bad old days of smokey pubs either

And don't you have that all singing dancing telephone contract, or was that just your land line?

Oh, and I assume everyone knows it, but you can put Michael for my name just incase!

Post by **Ameena** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 11:52 pm

Well, as I notice you haven't written it, I can make the weekend too - I only work weekdays normally (hence why I had to find out if I could get the Thursday/Friday off). I'm free all day on all four of those days, and just intend to get the train up to London on each day, to Victoria, and then the Tube from there to wherever we're gonna be doing stuff. If someone can meet me at Victoria, though, that would be great as I'm not that keen on being in London by myself like that...
Going home, I'll just go back to Victoria (or maybe Waterloo if that's closer...I've got the train home from there before...) and get the first train back to Chatham...then I'd probably get a taxi home from there - it's only a half-hour walk which I normally have no problems with (eg coming home from work) but if it's getting late then bugger that, lol.
I'm probably being a bit paranoid about scary people, regarding the "meet me at the station" thing, but...well, I've never been to London by myself before, and no-one I know is coming with me (from home, I mean, lol)

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Oh, and obviously Ameena isn't my real name...my real name is Elana but I doubt I'll be calling anyone by their real name when we meet, so...

. And my e-mail address I think is listed in my profile. Anyway it's ekky84 and it's at hotmail. That's .com not .co.uk.
Err, right I think that's it. For now. Wow finally I will be spending money on something apart from travel to/from work :O.

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 12:24 am

Can you stop at clapham junction and swap from victoria to waterloo? Tah way, if you are coming in the evening, you, me and linflas can meet up in waterloo and onwards...perhaps...

Post by **Ameena** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 10:03 am

Err...no, my train comes straight to Victoria (the stop previous to that is Bromley South)...if I know what time I'm supposed to be meeting you, then I can just look it up on the National Rail Enquiries webby and see which train arrives closest to that time...and then I'll probably get the one before that (even if that ends up being a slow train) so I'll guarantee that I'll be on time

.

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 10:14 am

Well if we say seven thirty then I can even dump my stuff at home first I think (no packed bag being lugged around) and then chill for a bit before linflas gets off the train

Unless that is too late for everyone else?

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 10:16 am

Oh, just to say I have a set of windows open for some forum people for sending out invites

Not got far before I was falling down asleep, so only managed to send to GG and PaulH on personal mails (not sure if he even uses that e-mail now, the @aol.com one) and also to dxdfx due to his site through the mail system on the forum

Still have alot of windows, alot of it is tryign to work out who is where to invite them or not - and also, if thye have seen this thread or not if active!

Post by **Ameena** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 10:18 am

Well, I'm sure I can be there for that time...gawd what time will that mean I'm going home then lol...wonder when the last train is...well, as long as I'm not travelling at some stupidly late time like 11pm (that's stupidly late as fasr as travelling is concerned, for me...). I dunno how long I'll be able to be around that evening, considering how long it'll take me to get home...

Post by **Gambit37** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 10:40 am

I feel bad that I haven't been more involved in this, but the timing is really bad with my new endeavours...

I am about to go away for the weekend back home. I can spare an hour or so on Monday looking for venues if that helps. I just need very specific instructions on what we need.

If we are looking for something in the Crystal Palace area, Ameena you don't need to come all the way into London.

Post by **Ameena** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 10:44 am

Umm...as I have no idea where Crystal Palace is (I've heard of it but that's it), I probably do. It's only an hour (ish) on the train to Victoria and then I was just gonna get the Tube to wherever from there. I'll have an all-day Travelcard thing so I'll have unlimited Tube access all day (plus journey to/from London) for no extra cost, so...

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 1:42 pm

Crystal palace area is right back out of london south/south east penge way

And Ga,bit, I'm off to india before the end of the week and have to get my visa sorted out, so you don't have to tell me about bad timing! I think the point was there was never going to be a good time that caught almost everyone

Anywya, a pub/resteraunt, Just simply a nice place with a downstairs/sectioned off area liek they sometimes do for private parties so we're not basically speaking over the regular crowd and listenign to terrible music, where we can simpyl relax and say hello to each other and chat and relax really

And ameena, sounds like you should go in earlier and get met by someone else then! That means that we wouldn't be saying 'ehllo' to peope til after 8

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 6:15 pm

For Friday, the Queens hotel is the one that keeps coming up in web searches. Maybe not good if we wanted a room (though cheap) but the sound of the conference room is nice. With one tiny exceptiion - no internet!

The buffet provided would either be light food or curriy food, but then can always eat out of resteraunt or walk outside since apparently the area is good for that

Room for 15 people so should cover us size wise

it's http://www.apartotels.com/ApartmentInfo.asp?Code=7030
at
http://maps.google.co.uk/
122 Church Road, Crystal Palace, SE19 2UG, London

The price for the room is stupidly light to what I'd expect, so especially if it's just a room for us all to be, leave our cool valuable DM stuff and general valuables in, and spend only a few hours at a time doing DM stuff between enjoyign the surroundings or whatever, then it might be ok

Gambit, is this close to your side of penge so you can quickly nip out duirng a break or for a half day without inconvienience?

Also, is it close enough for you to take a look at even?

Anywya, there was another one I saw with hi speed net that sounded good - of course, I can't find that one again since my computer crashed with the website still up

Anyway, i've shpped for india, phoned that place and looked a t a few sites - will head out for a little while then come back to check out pubs I guess and see if anyone has any opinions!

Post by **Ameena** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 10:33 pm

Well, if there's anyone up for it, I'm happy to go into London at some point during the day and meet up before the "proper" meet in the evening. I think what I might do is decide how I'm getting home before I actually go up there, though. Once the actual venue is decided, could oyu let me know which station (Tube or otherwise) is closest to it so I can see if there's a train passes through there headed my way? Even if there's not one goes straight to Chatham, maybe (if it's southeasterly-ish) I can get one to Bromley or something and change...
Anyway, looking up the trains is the easy part, once I know where the station will be that I'm travelling from

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And that room thing sounds cool, Wuffy - just somewhere quiet we can sit on our arses and chat and stuff. As you mentioned DM stuff, all I have that I can think of (apart from no-longer-working Atari disks of course) is my CSB map and coin, but most people seem to have one of those already. Still, I can bring 'em if anyone's interested

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beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 11:47 pm

I haven't seen them!

Post by **Ameena** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 11:53 pm

Well, I'll have to remember to bring 'em then

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Post by **Zyx** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 12:52 am

I won't know until monday or tuesday when (and even if!) we come to London.
But if we are here early on thursday, we'll be delighted to meet you Ameena.

Post by **Ameena** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 2:55 pm

Oh cool

. Hey, maybe we can go poke around in Hamley's or something...ever been there?

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 6:50 pm

PM'd sabreman and parallax cause I saw them online, will try to get a few more people

Ian's e-mail bounced back, so need to PM him and e-mail him through the site too I guess

Sorry abotu the delays and stuff, on the bright side all my other distractions are almost done - just need to get my visa application in to the place tomorrow morning and that should be me focused. My india bag has all the stuff it needs, just needs packed!

Post by **Lunever** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 2:03 pm

Arrival Wednesday September 5th 2007 11:55 UK local time in Stansted, proceeding to our B&B in Penge from there first, after that we'll probably go to central London for the day.

Departure Monday September 10th 2007 15:30 from Stansted.

Email: Lunever atttt yahoo dottiething de

Safadia · Post by **Safadia** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 2:06 pm

Arrival & departure see Lunever

Email Safadia2002 atttt yahoo dottiething de

Post by **Lunever** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:42 pm

I just mailed a contact information list. Since a couple of things are still missing, please have a look at it and correct it if necessary.

Most imortantly WE NEED A WHERE&WHEN to meet thursday.

Post by **linflas** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 5:01 pm

found the email, no need to answer as i'm coming quite later..
all i hope for know i that someone will be at waterloo to meet me at 8pm

Post by **Gambit37** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:16 pm

Hi all. I got the email, thanks Lunever and thanks to those of you making efforts to get this sorted.

I'm sorry that I have not been able to be involved in sorting this out, things have been incredibly busy for me recently. I'm still doubtful that I will be able to come out on the Friday; however, that depends on how many of you want to meet up over the weekend? If people are around on Sat/Sun, I have the weekend free.

It's possible that I could do some work on the Sunday and instead take some time off on Friday to come to the hotel -- it's really not far from me at all. Psycholigically, working at the weekend isn't good for me though!

I am currently on a fixed fee job that should be two weeks work; however, based on today it looks like it will take me longer which means a) I don't really want to take time off in the working week and b) I will lose money.

As I said before, despite it being our main 'common ground' I'm not really interested in the DM aspect of this; but I am keen to meet up with whoever makes it for general getting to know you socialising, etc.

So, I will review how my work has gone this week, and if by Friday I feel it's going well, I might come to the conference room in the afternoon. Otherwise, just call me and we'll meet up over the weekend.

As for Thursday night, I can probably meet whoever is here. What's the plan there?

Post by **Lunever** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:28 pm

Gambit: Thursday the plan is having a nice evening in a pub. We just still don't know what pub. Any suggestions?