[Fid]

Tisteon Simeonus, on 04 June 2014 - 11:01 AM, said:

Tarthenal Theloman Toblakai, on 04 June 2014 - 10:23 AM, said:

Tisteon Simeonus, on 04 June 2014 - 10:22 AM, said:

Come up North! We can meet up with Brood and some other guys too!

How far up North? I would be interested in a Malazan meet up!!

There are a groupd of us who live in the Manchester area (or close enough for an easy train journey across) I meet up with Brood and Stone Monkey from time to time (and Dag when she is visiting) Cougar lives fairly close as does Grumble. We used to do a Malaz Manc Meet up every year but I think a few people have moved away. It would be an ideal stopping point on the way up to Scotland...

We were planning to restore the Christmas Meet-up to Manchester this year after a couple of years in London, but maybe we could move Christmas to spring? Only downside for Hetan would be no Christmas fair (and a consequent sausage absence)

[Tiste Simeon]

Fid, on 23 June 2014 - 05:57 AM, said:

Tisteon Simeonus, on 04 June 2014 - 11:01 AM, said:

Tarthenal Theloman Toblakai, on 04 June 2014 - 10:23 AM, said:

Tisteon Simeonus, on 04 June 2014 - 10:22 AM, said:

Come up North! We can meet up with Brood and some other guys too!

How far up North? I would be interested in a Malazan meet up!!

There are a groupd of us who live in the Manchester area (or close enough for an easy train journey across) I meet up with Brood and Stone Monkey from time to time (and Dag when she is visiting) Cougar lives fairly close as does Grumble. We used to do a Malaz Manc Meet up every year but I think a few people have moved away. It would be an ideal stopping point on the way up to Scotland...

We were planning to restore the Christmas Meet-up to Manchester this year after a couple of years in London, but maybe we could move Christmas to spring? Only downside for Hetan would be no Christmas fair (and a consequent sausage absence)

Yeah them sausages are good...

[Thelomen Toblerone]

I cannot stress how much better London is than the rest of the UK, and if you need any tour guiding or pub/eating recommendations I will volunteer myself forcefully. FORCEFULLY.

That said, people always underplay Belfast, which is an amazing town with great restaurants, history, drinking spots and the friendliest (if also maddest) people you're likely to meet.

The lake district is great as long as you steer clear of Windermere, which is horrifically jammed with tourists. I went up there for the first time a few weeks ago and was shocked that scenery like that actually existed in England.

York is also lovely, as of course are Cambridge and Oxford. Do not under any circumstances bother with anything in the east Midlands, it's just pointless on many levels I'm afraid.

In Spain, Granada (for the old Arab quarter and the Alhambra palace) and Madrid are both musts. Rome you can do in a weekend, it's all easily walkable; if you're doing venice then you're right by Slovenia and the wonderful lake bled, which is worth popping to. Berlin is immense too, btw.

This concludes my hungover recollections of European places for now.

[Tsundoku]

Thelomen Toblerone, on 04 July 2014 - 08:19 AM, said:

That said, people always underplay Belfast, which is an amazing town with great restaurants, history, drinking spots and the friendliest (if also maddest) people you're likely to meet.

Just don't go there during Marching Season.

[Tiste Simeon]

Toby! I knew if someone started a thread about going to places in England you would pipe up with a plug for London sooner or later! How the devil are you, you cheeky urchin scamp?

[Thelomen Toblerone]

I am very well thank you sim! Pretty much fully recovered, brain lesion free so can't complain! I'm also changing jobs, which means I will no longer be doing 60-70hr weeks as standard and will thus have more time to come here and persuade you all to come to London more often to get pissed in the only city in the UK (less than 5m period and it isn't really a city, let's be honest). Someone needs to be on here to counteract the advice of you heathen northern bastards!

[Thelomen Toblerone]

That should say people, not period. 5million periods sounds like a horrendously messy affair

[Shiara]

Okay so, we have a draft schedule up on Google Drive (https://drive.google...iew?usp=sharing)! This is still a draft, so any recommendations would be most gratefully received

This post has been edited by Shiara: 15 January 2015 - 10:45 AM

[Tiste Simeon]

Dang it I'm away on holiday that very week you're in the UK.

[Illuyankas]

I should absolutely be free to meet after noon that day, boo yah.

E: the Plymouth day

This post has been edited by Illuyankas: 15 January 2015 - 12:52 PM

[Tiste Simeon]

Illuyankas, on 15 January 2015 - 12:48 PM, said:

I should absolutely be free to meet after noon that day, boo yah.

E: the Plymouth day

Don't let that alter your plans though Shiara...

[Macros]

Argh, I'll be on rotation that week with zero chance of getting off work.
Barring a lottery win which enables me to chuck my job I wont be able to meet you on your European odyssey

[Imperial Historian]

That's a lot of driving! Cambridge to Plymouth to Manchester to Edinburgh in 3 days, i'd probably do that over 4 if I was you as you are looking at spending more than 5 hours a day in the car (maybe for you australians though thats an easy drive).

Cambridge to Plymouth on the bank holiday Monday shouldn't be too bad traffic wise, as most of the traffic will be going the other way too London, anyone down south got any experience of what the M4 would be like?

Plymouth to Manchester you would have to be careful of the traffic, there's a lot of roadworks on the M5 at the moment, but hopefully they'd be done by the time you drove that way. Certainly don't plan to be on the road anytime between 5 and 7 as you'll be adding an hour or more to your journey.

Manchester to Edinburgh again shouldn't be too bad if you don't plan on being on the road between 5 and 7.

You are visiting some of the best cities in Europe though so I'm sure you'll have a great time.

[Tiste Simeon]

Don't forget, they're from Australia. A 6 hour drive is just popping over your mates for a brew for those guys...

[Studious Lock]

You're spending 3 days in london. This is all that matters to me.

[Abyss]

Shiara, on 15 January 2015 - 10:35 AM, said:

Okay so, we have a draft schedule up on Google Drive (https://drive.google...iew?usp=sharing)! This is still a draft, so any recommendations would be most gratefully received

Five days in Vienna is too much. It's a beautiful city but you can see it in one and see the living fuck out of it in two. Sure, spend another entire day at the Biergarten because Biergarten, but then go somewhere else.
Zurich, similar... Two days max. Expensive, boring. Check out Chamonix or Interlacken.
And a week in Rome is a horrible horrible idea when you have the rest of Italy to see. Florence, The Cinque Terras, Sienna, Orvietto, Civita n Bagnorregio and a few thousand other awesome places are mere hours or less away. Rome is two days, one for the cityy, one for the Vatican, and gtfo.
In Milan, pay the fee to go hang out on the roof of the Duomo. It's like visiting an alien city.

[Tiste Simeon]

The thought of Abyss roaming Europe at will is somewhat disconcerting...

[Abyss]

Tiste Simeon, on 17 January 2015 - 07:34 AM, said:

The thought of Abyss roaming Europe at will is somewhat disconcerting...

Admit it, you love the idea.
It's like swimming in the ocean and knowing sharks are out there somewhere. Or yetis. Or herpes.

[Tsundoku]

Abyss, on 17 January 2015 - 09:38 AM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 17 January 2015 - 07:34 AM, said:

The thought of Abyss roaming Europe at will is somewhat disconcerting...

Admit it, you love the idea.
It's like swimming in the ocean and knowing sharks are out there somewhere. Or yetis. Or herpes.

Or yetis with shark herpes.

[Hetan]

Hu - I've just seen your itinerary.
If you guys were coming to see us in Cambridge I should let you know that we're not going to be here, which is such a shame as I would love to see you both.
We're in Canada from 1st to 18th April.
Looking at your itinerary though, you might want to rethink visiting Cambridge and go to Oxford instead - which is more or less on your way (or could easily be on your way) from London to the West Country. From Stonehenge to Plymouth doesn't look a long way, but some of those West Country roads can be a real pain in the arse over holiday periods, so having an extra day might prove useful if you are no longer coming to Cambridge

I hope you have a great trip and again, I'm sorry we won't get the chance to meet.

This post has been edited by Hetan: 17 January 2015 - 12:01 PM