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« Reply #15 on: 23:58:22, 12-08-2007 » |
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I suppose a Köln gathering is unlikely.
A trip abroard! Something many of us in the UK could do with... I say push for it! That would be lovely. Cologne is possible. Perhaps somewhere in the Netherlands?  Split the difference, see you in Brussels!  |
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« Reply #17 on: 12:00:34, 13-08-2007 » |
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I wouldn't mind Brussels. I've never been to Belgium. And I think Eurostar is currently offering two Belgian cities for the price of one. I'm also eyeing up an autumn trip to Riga if anyone fancies Latvia. Berlin on 25 Sept is another board-related possibility, I believe.  |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #18 on: 21:19:54, 13-08-2007 » |
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« Reply #19 on: 22:08:34, 13-08-2007 » |
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Indeed John, it does. Geography lesson anyone?  |
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« Reply #20 on: 22:14:02, 13-08-2007 » |
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Sorry John, I wasn't being serious was I!  Manchester is possible for me - I'm there every few months but would certainly try to time a visit to coincide with a board meet. Places like Leeds, York, even Birmingham are theoretically possible too, with a bit of planning. Birmingham late at night is pretty terrible for trains though - even getting back to London after 9.45 is impossible most nights, which is frustrating when there are so many good concerts there. |
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« Reply #21 on: 22:27:11, 13-08-2007 » |
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Sorry John, I wasn't being serious was I! And I was? Indeed I was! The Radio 2 group R2OK have been invited to the BBC Midands studios on Sept 29th (weekend of R2's 40th birthday), the Mailbox building Birmingham. Over 30% of Radio2's programming is broadcast from Birmingham (the twilight shows, some weekend shows and some evening shows). I believe ALL Radio 3's studio programmes are broadcast from London, yes? Is it Radio 3's 40th birthday too next month? Any celebrations planned? |
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« Reply #22 on: 23:30:22, 13-08-2007 » |
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« Reply #23 on: 00:01:10, 14-08-2007 » |
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I wouldn't mind Brussels. I've never been to Belgium. And I think Eurostar is currently offering two Belgian cities for the price of one.
Eurostar Brussels tickets have been valid for any station in Belgium for some years now - though the website does make it look like a special offer. Is this the offer you're thinking of? If so, it is, strictly speaking, Brussels and one other city, rather than any two Belgian cities; you might have trouble trying to use your ticket to see Antwerp and Liège. You also have to beware of express trains like Thalys, which will be excluded. It's still a great offer, though. I've used it several times: Brussels and Ghent, Brussels and Liège and even Brussels and Aachen - which is only one stop over the border so you just have to pay a few euros supplement on the train from Liège. Quite a bargain if you book in advance and get a £59 return ticket. |
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« Reply #24 on: 02:17:13, 14-08-2007 » |
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If anybody's feeling kindhearted towards the resident expat moggie perhaps you could post full-length pictures of yourselves which I could then enlarge, print out, cut out and stick to cardboard to have a meet up in the back yard.
Then again, what would I do with you all afterward? Leaving you in the garage to molder doesn't seem very hospitable, and the basement has been colonized by troglodytes.
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« Reply #25 on: 07:12:35, 14-08-2007 » |
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and even Brussels and Aachen - which is only one stop over the border so you just have to pay a few euros supplement on the train from Liège. Köln/Cologne/Keulen isn't a million miles from Aachen/Aix-la-Chapelle...  |
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Well, we're planning to be in Paris next spring but don't know the date yet! - does ths help?
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Well, we're planning to be in Paris next spring but don't know the date yet! - does ths help?
I can get to Paris more quickly and cheaply than I can get to London! There is something fundamentally wrong with this country but I can't quite put my finger on what... ) "There is something terribly wrong with this country..." ( V for Vendetta, Wachowski Bros., 2005) |
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Well, we're planning to be in Paris next spring but don't know the date yet! - does ths help?
I can get to Paris more quickly and cheaply than I can get to London! There is something fundamentally wrong with this country but I can't quite put my finger on what... ) "There is something terribly wrong with this country..." ( V for Vendetta, Wachowski Bros., 2005) -- Alan Moore, writer of V for Vendetta, describing the Wachowski Brothers' screenplay. |
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