MacRumors London Picnic 2009

[Eraserhead]

are there any US gatherings by chance? For those of us without passports haha

So get a passport then 😛.

There are some Macrumors members in New York who might well come so if you arranged a picnic thread for New York there's a good chance of it happening 😉.

I'm almost certainly coming to this in London btw.

 

[M3G4]

I feel I may try and come to this, it'd be nice to meet some likeminded people that don't actually hate macs! 🙂

 

[anjinha]

I'm doing an Inter Rail around Europe and I'm starting in London, so that I can go to the picnic!!!! 😀

 

[Blue Velvet]

I love the city and I love Macs, so why not combine both?

Why not indeed? It's usually a chilled-out sort of day, just loafing around, drinking and eating, listening to music... playing football badly. 😱

I feel I may try and come to this, it'd be nice to meet some likeminded people that don't actually hate macs! 🙂

I think you should. 🙂

I'm doing an Inter Rail around Europe and I'm starting in London, so that I can go to the picnic!!!! 😀

Excellent. I'm jealous of the Inter Rail ticket too. We'll see you there. 🙂

Keep track of this thread as we'll be posting maps and so forth in 2-3 months time once we've managed to do a little exploring first. Wherever we eventually choose to hold it, it will be very easy to get to.

 

[anjinha]

Wherever we eventually choose to hold it, it will be very easy to get to.

Nice. I get lost easily. Thank god I have an iPhone. 😀

 

[M3G4]

Why not indeed? It's usually a chilled-out sort of day, just loafing around, drinking and eating, listening to music... playing football badly. 😱

I think you should. 🙂

As it goes it looks like I'm dragging my friend as well who is a new recruit to the mac world 😀

 

[Blue Velvet]

Nice. I get lost easily.

Not good for Eurailing. By the way, you have to buy this book if you're going Eurailing. It's a must-have. Trust me.

http://www.seat61.com/Thomas-Cook-European-Timetable.htm

As it goes it looks like I'm dragging my friend as well who is a new recruit to the mac world 😀

Great, the more the merrier. More jumpers for goalposts. 😀

 

[anjinha]

Not good for Eurailing. By the way, you have to buy this book if you're going Eurailing. It's a must-have. Trust me.

Nice. I didn't buy any books for my trip yet since my birthday is coming up and my dad likes to get me books. Thanks for the suggestion. 🙂

 

[Blue Velvet]

Thanks for the suggestion. 🙂

Cá em Portugal só o podes comprar por encomenda na fnac 😉

 

[millar876]

Darned it, if it were only 1 month later, I might have had an excuse to sneak away from my sister-in-laws pre wedding stuff in reading and even have a sneaky visit to an apple store or 2.

 

[iJohnHenry]

I get lost easily.

If I win some money in the interim, I will be glad to be your guide.

I have an excellent sense of direction, and always know where I am headed.

😛

Plus, I've been to London a few times too. 😀

 

[Eraserhead]

On travelling around Europe I have a few tips (as I've just travelled around the world.)

1. Buy earplugs. They are useful for the flight and noisy dorms.
2. See less cities and spend more time in each place. In cities like London and Paris you could easily spend 5 full days (or maybe more.) without getting bored.
3. I remain to be convinced of the value of the Interail pass. €11/day is a lot of money for rail travel in Europe (except the UK. As an example Prague-Vienna is €29.) especially if you follow point 2 - I don't know why the seat61 guy recommends it as he usually proves to be very solid. Of course if you've already bought it don't worry. It's not that bad a deal.
4. Get an oyster card for London at heathrow if you can as otherwise you pay 3x more and get the smart card for other metros if you can figure out how to get the card refunded when you leave the city as they make travelling much easier.
5. Keep your valuables safe. Don't put your passport and other valuables in your pocket but keep them under your clothes.

 

[Junk DNA]

great idea !

I'll be there !

 

[LouisBlack]

Keep track of this thread as we'll be posting maps and so forth in 2-3 months time once we've managed to do a little exploring first. Wherever we eventually choose to hold it, it will be very easy to get to.

Sounds like the perfect opportunity to try out the new MMS location sending in iPhone 3.0 😀

I may well pop over for a few hours. Should be fun.

 

[Willis]

I WILL make this one!!

In my calender already =)

 

[MWPULSE]

Awesommme!!

what would be fun would set up a mini generator in the park, and have some mac pro server malarky going on.. we could be the apple store mobile.. or just play games or sommat i dunno..

now that im done being a geeeek.. yep i will be there 🙂

 

[iBlue]

^ That depends on your definition of fun. 😛 In the past I think the geekiness is typically kept to a minimum, but nothing is ruled out. Laptops have made appearances but mostly it's just the iPod speaker thingy for tunes and other random typical and non-typical picnic activities. 😀

 

[MWPULSE]

sorry was using the term fun very very very loooossely.. 🙂 😎 i will just bring my ipod nano along thats all i will need

 

[Jaffa Cake]

Yeah, previously we've had beer and crisps and stuff. 😱

 

[OllyW]

Yeah, previously we've had beer and crisps and stuff. 😱

If there's going to be crisps, then I'm in. 😎

 

[Lau]

If there's going to be crisps, then I'm in. 😎

We have, on occasion, had multiple bags. 😎

 

[iBlue]

Cakes too.

Mmmmmm, cake.

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[OllyW]

We have, on occasion, had multiple bags. 😎

Cakes too.

Definitely in. 😀

 

[MWPULSE]

hmmmm

We have, on occasion, had multiple bags. 😎

Skips?? Quavers?? i wanna know what im getting in for!!? heh nah i jest 🙂

cakes?? jaffa cakes??

btw.. do we have to go round introducing ourselves with our aliases from MR forums?? that would be weird lol
🙄

 

[calculus]

Yeah, previously we've had beer and crisps and stuff. 😱

not forgetting pop and jaffa cakes...