UK trip

Thegodzero

Ok so now that I'm less than two weeks out i want to see if anyone wanted to meet up with me and my wife. Well be in London, Cardiff, Newcastle, and Edinburgh(not in that order). We wont have a car for any part of the two weeks. I'll post up the dates a little bit later. Just wanted to trow this out there now in case anyone wants to attempt a meet up.

blankslatejoe

hah, have fun tgz!

Thegodzero

Ok back to this, way too much shit to get ready while moving too.

Ok so well be in London, Paddington from the 31st till the 5th. On the 3rd well be in Cardiff. Then In Edinburgh from the 5th until the 7th. Then in Newcastle from the 7th until the 10th. Then back to London, Paddington and back home on the 12th.

IronHawk

nice man have a good time!

almighty_gir

hmm i might be able to make london, i'll get back to you here in the next day or so if i can =]

Mongrelman

Would be good to meet some polycounters, afraid I can't manage a trip to London around then though

Rick Stirling

"Then in Newcastle from the 7th until he 10th"

MADNESS!

Thegodzero

Hey i picked these locations from polycounter concentration points... Ok i didn't but if i had it would still be the same...

I'm hoping while in Newcastle to find a castle tour for the ones north of the city.

Rick Stirling

Oh, as a base?

Northumberland is beautiful. Alnwick, Bamburgh, Holy Island.

Farfarer

I'll be up in Edinburgh from the 3rd to the 7th. Should grab a beer if I've time.

Rick Stirling

Whereabouts in Edinburgh are you staying?

Both of you.

Thegodzero

There I'll be next to Usher Hall.

Mongrelman

I'd suggest giving York and the Lake District a look if you can.

Thegodzero

We thought about it while we were planing, but decided to skip them. Already a lot of stops as is, we didn't want to cause any more stress by adding more towns.

danr

considering Newcastle empties it's rasping sphincter into York train station every saturday, your approach seems refreshing

Farfarer

Rick Stirling wrote: »

Whereabouts in Edinburgh are you staying?

Both of you.

Actually, I'm a month ahead of myself, it's 3rd-7th of August I'm up (misread the OP, didn't realise the trip was so imminent :P).

Although, I think I'll likely be staying back home in Paisley with my parents and getting the train over each day.

Will definitely have to hit up you and Ben for a few pints, and the other PCers who're at North (Shep?).

Thegodzero

Danr, thank you for the visual!

So any takers?

Rick Stirling

Very possible - I need to see what festival stuff we have booked for those dates.

Thegodzero

Ok sweet, I'll try and check PC often while i'm over there to set things up.

Anyone in London or Newcastle want to try for a meet up?

Ruz

i am up for a beer in london. it would be good to get a few more along too

Mongrelman

Shame it's during the week, could only manage to go to London at the weekend

Not around Derby area any time are you? :P

ImSlightlyBored

yeah going to be quite busy in the week : (
You aren't able to make any weekends in london, right?

Thegodzero

Yeah sadly i wasn't even looking at what days of the week that would put those dates in...

Thegodzero

Ok so it looks like no meet up in London or Newcastle, on the part of my only being there during the work days. Correct?

Ruz

dude if you are in london I will come out for a beer.
just tell me where you are hanging out.

I am working down in brick lane right now and can come out anytime.
Perhaps I can drag out a few of the guys from my place.

I am working freelance at the moment in house at ' slide'

Thegodzero

So your over in shoreditch? I'll be staying next to the Paddington station. I don't think that should be a problem at all.

Ruz

well its not too far from shoreditdch, but yeah wherever, give me a pm

Thegodzero

BTW i wont have a computer while i'm over there but i will have my iphone. So as long as i can get a wifi signal i should be good for checking PC.

Thegodzero

made it! The place I'm staying at is so small!!!

Rick Stirling

But you are only sleeping in it, so get out and party!

ChrisG

naa normal size just everything in America is like 50 gazillion times bigger.

Have fun and don't get harassed by chav's, if you do knock off their stupid nike caps and jog away, dont worry they wont catch you- too much smoking.

Thegodzero

Had a great time in Edinburgh, now I'm in newcastle. Don't we have some polycounters here?

MoP

rooster is still in the Newcastle area, I think. I come from there, but am down in London now (as you know)
Will see about a meet-up this Thursday 11th in the evening, but I can't promise anything yet.

SHEPEIRO

im sure theyll be a few R* polycounters up for a beer or two, normally given any sort of excuse

Thegodzero

wait, I thought that was in edinburgh? Shep where are you located?

MoP

I think SHEPEIRO skim-read that post and got the wrong end of the stick, thinking you're still in Edinburgh. AFAIK there is no Rockstar in Newcastle

Thegodzero

sorry shep, we already did that leg of the trip...

I need to see if rooster is up for a meet.

Mop we still down for the 11th? Say dinner or something?

Thegodzero

Ruz maybe we could try to meet up again too? Btw were you wearing a red shirt when we first tried to meet?

SHEPEIRO

whoops, yeah dont know which year it is at the mo let alone date, ow well see ya next time

Thegodzero

Sorry that I missed you, I guess rick just didn't want to share me with you or any of the other polycounters there...

let's just hope rooster doesn't find put that I was here after I have left...

rooster

gah I totally missed this thread.. i sent you a pm reply, if you're about this evening I'll be up for a beer or two

Thegodzero

had a great night out with rooster and two of his co workers! Great couple of games of pool(I sucked as per usual)!

rooster

haha I fully apologise for losing the doubles game for team polycount, by potting the black. good to see you man, have a good rest of trip

Thegodzero

If you(or any polycounter) are travaling to the Seattle area let me know, so we can grab a bite and a few drinks.

So now I'm off back to London for a few days then back to Seattle.

Hopefully thursday I'll get to meet mop, tully, and spacemonkey!

MoP

Sorry dude, Tully and I are not going to be able to make it on Thursday night. We're flying out to Canada early on Friday morning, and I still have stuff to sort out (and shopping to do) on Thursday night already.
Just bad timing ... any other time I'd have been up for it, but it's cutting things too fine for me, so I'm gonna have to bail.

Thegodzero

Well that sucks, but I was wondering how it was going to work anyway as no underground around me is working... Maybe some day you come over to the west coast and make your way up to Seattle. Anyway best of luck with your trip!

MoP

Heh yeah, the worst timing - most of the underground is on strike
First major one in the 3 years I've been down here, actually. I guess London is really not making it easy on you

Thegodzero

HOME!!!

Fun trip but god was it exhausting! I have notes for would be travelers to the UK too, i'll post them later.