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RE: Messenger Meeting, London '05
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On august 9th the travelling starts. Getting on the train towards Schiphol Airport at 9:35 am. Scheduled was a transfer at Amersfoort, but when the train arrived that specific train wasn't runnin due to some powertrouble. Was told to board another train wich led to a station where i had to transfer once more..delay 30 mins and 2 transfers instead of just 1. I planned the travelling with enough time left for occasions like this, so no harm done :D

Schiphol Airport: as it was my first time flying ever i was a lil bit nervous about wether or not i'd find my way after check-in point. It was pretty easy, just very time consuming..getting from check-in point to the correct gate took about an hour (thats including handluggage beeing scanned 2/3 times before boarding at diff points of the route). When i arrived at the gate (D22) there was an announcement on the screen that boarding will be at D12...ofcourse there was a massive qeue by the time i got back there *sigh*. Finally on the plane...hmm i can't stretch my legs..airplanes sure are smaller inside than i imagined. Taking off made me feel weird but it all got better when plane stopped going further up (i didn't really get sick). Landing made me somewhat def, like everything was very distant.

London: As soon as i could i notified Segosa that i had arrived and i got a message back to tell me where he and Jonathan (TReKiE) were waiting for me. No troubles recognising eachother at all :D On to the trains we went, we got a good deal too..3 travel for the price of 2. Whilst beeing on the train TB messaged us several times asking where we were at Victoria (i set the meetingpoint to be entrance of tubes at Victoria Station), well we hadn't arrived there yet so we didn't answer back :chrongue: I figured he'd go find Cookie who was already at the meetingpoint. In the end we found Cookie before TB and Inky found the meetingpoint...hehehe smile!

The hostel: as bits of the bill were already payed by TB it got somewhat more complicated as to what still needed to be payed. Whilst i was gathering the money from the group the check in person got somewhat impatient, so i said i was gathering the money. I had to say that several times as they didn't understand and kept sayin to pay..and asking if they had to book another room for us and cancel the existing one..gahhhhhh....learn english folks! I guess i should have known it be a hasle making myself understandable to them because before i had to e-mail them 3/4 times too to change the booking :(

Finally, everything is sorted and we continue to our room. Then out...go walking about and get food..we couldn't decide what to eat so we asked our decisionman (TReKiE) to decide what to eat. Pizza! Later on we went for a walk in Kensington Garden, then off to find a pub. Wich was harder then expected, when we finally found one i decided to buy the guys a drink. When it closed ofcourse we had to go back to the hostel...to find out it wasn't that far from the hostel afterall....we just missed it because we walked through the park..lol.

Day 2: I woke up very early (6 am) and didn't get much sleep at all because of the noise outside. Decided to get up at 7:30 and get a shower before breakfast....this woke up TB and he asked me not to wake him that early again lmao. When everybody got up we went for breakfast, meaning going downstairs to the kitchen and grab whatever you wanted to eat and drink. Then we waited for MoRiA/Astfgl and Optimism to arrive..in the meantime TReKiE had dissapeared of the face of the earth. TB searched for him but he was nowhere to be found. After TB messaged him we wanted to go out to get the by TB so desired English Breakfast we went off. As sudden as TReKiE dissapeared he appeared again too. We joked about saying we oughta call the police to search for TRekiE, "Tracking TReKiE" - new episode: "Lost in London".

Day 2 involved loads of walking, wich my feet didn't like much (dodgy feet probs atm)..but i stayed strong and went on automatic pilot...walk on!...i didn't want it to hold back the group anyways..the guys were very caring asking me how i was doing all the time :)
Optimism already posted rest of the story about day 2.

Pictures day 2:
One of the famous lions at Trafalgar Square
Fountain at Travalgar Square
A statue at Trafalgar Square, and proof there used to be pigeons.
The group at Trafalgar Square
Big Ben
A part of West Minster
The Eye
The Eye once more

Day 3: Final day...Gettin up a bit later than the day before, i slept better too :D At the place we had breakfast Cookie ordered a can of coke, wich turned out to have a real cute message on it (captured for eternity by TB). We had another day of fun together and i took one more photo opportunity whilst we were waiting for Time:
TB, Inky, Cookie, Segosa, TReKiE, Optimism, MoRiA/Astfgl at Waterloo.

Thinking about it beeing the last day of the meet made me sad...how i hate goodbyes...but as always, to everything comes an end. Me hugging Cookie goodbye made us miss the first metro out of Bayswater, but we again planned everything including possible delay time so who cares :chrongue: I enjoyed the meet very much and surely want more meets. Travel back went as planned, last person i had to say bye to was Segosa as we departed from same airport around same time. The starting and landing of the aeroplane didn't make me feel that weird anymore just like TReKiE told me (wow, i sure get used to it quickly) :D Back in The Netherlands it felt weird to travel on my own again, esp. as the trainstation was pretty much deserted. I had to wait 20 mins and felt really lonely...mhmmm txting time. Finally at 12:35 am i arrived in my hometown again. Left, Right, Stairs, Sleep...yay!

This post was edited on 08-18-2005 at 11:01 PM by Sunshine.
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Messenger Meeting, London '05 - by optimism_ on 08-11-2005 at 10:50 PM
RE: Messenger Meeting, London '05 - by optimism_ on 08-11-2005 at 10:51 PM
RE: Messenger Meeting, London '05 - by Zephyr on 08-11-2005 at 11:09 PM
RE: Messenger Meeting, London '05 - by FrozenDaggers on 08-11-2005 at 11:18 PM
RE: Messenger Meeting, London '05 - by segosa on 08-11-2005 at 11:25 PM
RE: Messenger Meeting, London '05 - by emit on 08-11-2005 at 11:25 PM
RE: Messenger Meeting, London '05 - by optimism_ on 08-11-2005 at 11:27 PM
RE: RE: Messenger Meeting, London '05 - by emit on 08-11-2005 at 11:35 PM
RE: Messenger Meeting, London '05 - by Chrono on 08-11-2005 at 11:28 PM
RE: Messenger Meeting, London '05 - by brian on 08-11-2005 at 11:28 PM
RE: Messenger Meeting, London '05 - by MoRiA on 08-11-2005 at 11:41 PM
RE: Messenger Meeting, London '05 - by emit on 08-11-2005 at 11:57 PM
RE: Messenger Meeting, London '05 - by MoRiA on 08-12-2005 at 12:29 AM
RE: Messenger Meeting, London '05 - by emit on 08-12-2005 at 12:49 AM
RE: Messenger Meeting, London '05 - by brian on 08-12-2005 at 03:00 AM
RE: Messenger Meeting, London '05 - by lopardo on 08-12-2005 at 06:54 AM
RE: Messenger Meeting, London '05 - by Eljay on 08-12-2005 at 07:27 AM
RE: Messenger Meeting, London '05 - by Sunshine on 08-12-2005 at 01:03 PM
RE: Messenger Meeting, London '05 - by MoRiA on 08-12-2005 at 02:23 PM
RE: Messenger Meeting, London '05 - by RebelSean on 08-12-2005 at 10:07 PM
RE: Messenger Meeting, London '05 - by Sunshine on 08-12-2005 at 10:28 PM
RE: Messenger Meeting, London '05 - by RebelSean on 08-13-2005 at 12:53 AM
RE: Messenger Meeting, London '05 - by MoRiA on 08-13-2005 at 01:42 AM
RE: Messenger Meeting, London '05 - by Millenium_edition on 08-13-2005 at 10:43 AM
RE: Messenger Meeting, London '05 - by Sunshine on 08-13-2005 at 10:46 AM
RE: Messenger Meeting, London '05 - by saralk on 08-13-2005 at 11:17 AM
RE: Messenger Meeting, London '05 - by absorbation on 08-13-2005 at 11:20 AM
RE: Messenger Meeting, London '05 - by TheBlasphemer on 08-13-2005 at 11:32 AM
RE: Messenger Meeting, London '05 - by Sunshine on 08-13-2005 at 11:33 AM
RE: Messenger Meeting, London '05 - by Tasha on 08-13-2005 at 11:41 AM
RE: Messenger Meeting, London '05 - by Sunshine on 08-13-2005 at 11:51 AM
RE: Messenger Meeting, London '05 - by Stigmata on 08-18-2005 at 10:30 PM
RE: Messenger Meeting, London '05 - by Patchou on 08-18-2005 at 11:53 PM
RE: Messenger Meeting, London '05 - by Negro_Joe on 08-19-2005 at 01:53 PM


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