Anyone up for a London Poly meet, somewhere between the 3rd and the 9th of August? - Page 13

*End Is Forever* · July 2, 2003, 20:29

We're very sociable this side of the pond...

Ecthy · July 2, 2003, 22:38

anything new?

Locutus · July 3, 2003, 07:59

Well, for longest city walk I'd like to throw in my Istanbul stroll: After a visit to the Topkapi Palace, I walked from the entrance to the Palace near the Aya Sofia along the palace walls and via Sirkeci Train Station to the Egyptian Bazaar and Galata Bridge, and from there via the Galata Tower to Taksim Square, and then back again via Galata Tower and Bridge to the Suleymaniye Mosque and over the Istanbul University Campus to the Valens Aquaduct, from where I went via the Grand Bazaar to the Hippodrome and where I had diner in a little restaurant a few hundred meters behind the Blue Mosque. Took about 6 hours (9 if you include the visit to the Topkapi Palace, which is a small city in itself -- makes Versailles look like a summer cottage). Saw quite a bit of the city that day (which has some very steep hills)...

Barley · July 3, 2003, 09:58

Furthest ive walked (err run most of it) in London is 26.2miles (twice), aka The London Marathon, recommend it if you want to see the sights. Starts in a big of a $h.t hole 'Greenwich' (yanks thats where we get our time from) - and meanders over around, over Tower Bridge, then round Docklands, etc etc - Finishes outside Buck House.

Az · July 3, 2003, 11:22

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Originally posted by Provost Harrison
My concern is that Azazel is some sort of giant...I saw a picture of him with Sirotnikov and Taurus and he looked like some sort of child molester

don't worry. I'll bring a chair from the hotel so we can talk face to face.

Ecthy · July 3, 2003, 11:56

he's going to need a big chair.

Dauphin · July 3, 2003, 12:01

He can just stand on the balcony level.

Az · July 3, 2003, 12:02

Then, he'll have to bend over.

Ecthy · July 3, 2003, 12:03

Asher won't be there though.

*End Is Forever* · July 3, 2003, 19:42

*el bumpo*

Provost Harrison · July 3, 2003, 19:45

So I presume it is going to be Moon Under Water then?

*End Is Forever* · July 3, 2003, 19:46

I'd quite like Chandos. Or the one in Canary Wharf... equally inaccessible for everyone!

Provost Harrison · July 3, 2003, 19:48

I want somewhere I can find

*End Is Forever* · July 3, 2003, 19:49

You can't possibly not find the Wetherspoons on West India Quay.

Provost Harrison · July 3, 2003, 19:53

West India Quay is right out of the way, so you can bog off

*End Is Forever* · July 3, 2003, 19:54

It's twenty minutes on the tube.

Immortal Wombat · July 4, 2003, 04:33

from where?

Ecthy · July 4, 2003, 04:56

please don't choose too exotic an option, guys.

MikeH · July 4, 2003, 04:57

No, I agree. Somewhere simple and central please.

*End Is Forever* · July 4, 2003, 11:12

Moon Under Water on Charing Cross Road it is, then.

st_swithin · July 4, 2003, 11:17

How about Manhattan?

I hear GCS is a good place for loser, dweeb-reprobates to hang out and discuss subversive technologies and conspiracy theory.

And believe me, if there were public transportation from here to there, I'd be camping out right next to the vending machines.

However, THAT is an entirely different story >:·Þ

Immortal Wombat · July 4, 2003, 11:38

There was an NYC poly-meet thread somewhere else round here... Maybe you should come to London

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st_swithin · July 4, 2003, 11:52

I like London, I just hate to fly.

Now if I had wings, I might be okay with it, but even VirgAtl can be tiresome after 10 hours.

*End Is Forever* · July 4, 2003, 13:53

C0ckney · July 4, 2003, 13:59

btw, what time do these things usually finish?

Makeo · July 4, 2003, 14:11

I assume it will be a last man standing affair.

*End Is Forever* · July 4, 2003, 14:12

This one will be a bit different with it being in the evening. Normally they've involved sitting in a pub all Saturday afternoon, this one presumably involves sitting in a pub on a Friday evening.

Makeo, is that a challenge?

Makeo · July 4, 2003, 14:19

ahaha no not really, as you could put me in the light weight division, but i'm a trier. I may not drink as much but i'll definately be drunker.

C0ckney · July 4, 2003, 14:20

ah ok. thing is, i'll be combining this with a visit to my nan in ruslip, who i'll be staying with. she locks her doors at about 10.30pm every night (to guard against pikies and pakis

) and is really loathe to open them. so pretty much whatever time it finishes i won't be able to get in to her house until at least 7am the next morning (no spare key :/).

so really i was just wondering how long i'll have to spend in a greasy spoon cafe reading the paper and scracthing my balls

*End Is Forever* · July 4, 2003, 14:21

Makeo, well at least you spend less money!