A2K London Meet IV

Gautam is in lead with four now, Steve second with his third, I'm equal with you (thinking that FionaB only joined one :wink: ) ...

Some of us that attended only one London Meet can't be faulted too badly, heh?

< a warm feeling spreads all over Gautam as he relives the memories of his *three* A2K London meets>

U guyz are awesome !!!

McTag -- no, no... not duffers at all. I KNOW it's a long ways to come.

The airline, connecting my local airport with London, is one year flying a so-called "city shuttle".
Due to this, they sell on the 3rd of October 10,000 cheap tickets just for 19 Euros (to and from all their European destinations).

So I'm in London from November 6 to November 7.

(Funny that I got these tickets already: actually, they should be sold only from midnight onwards :wink: )

Just read the my ticket carefully: 13 Euros both ways - but additionally 35 for taxes, assurance etc.
(Since a seat reservation would have cost 2 x 8 Euros more, I didn't do so [know the route, anyway ]. Glad, the car park at the airport is free!)

We're going here, in October, via Newcastle and Edinburgh:

http://www.scottish-fisheries-museum.org/

in the East Neuk of Fife.

Great!!! And great place!!!!!!(I've been some times "on the other side", near Dundee, ages ago)

Is that to the City airport, London, or to Stansted?

And, as you probably remember, Walter, a shuttle is ein Webschuetzen. Originally.

It's late now, and I've got a cold. I'm off to bed, nighty night.

["Webschiffchen" we woul say here]

Stanstead it is (it's a real plane ).

Cold seems to be quite common in England - "Gute Besserung" (get well soon)!

Well I looked it up in my big dictionary. Webschiffchen was only the SECOND meaning given.
Thank you for the translation of Gute Besserung. Sehr behilflich. :wink:

Nighty night again.

"Schiffchen" is a small ship, what you should like


Sleep weel, my bairnie, sleep.
The lang, lang shadows creep,
The fairies play on the munelicht brae
An' the stars are on the deep.

The auld wife sits her lane
Ayont the cauld hearth-stane,
An' the win' comes doon wi' an eerie croon
To hush my bonny wean.

The bogie man's awa',
The dancers rise an fa'
An' the howlet's cry frae the bour-tree high
Comes through the mossy shaw.

Sleep weel, my bairnie, sleep.
The lang, lang shadows creep,
The fairies play on the munelicht brae
An' the stars are on the deep.

Ah, a Scottish lullaby, for me, from Germany. How touching.

It did the trick too, because I overslept!
Neither the munelicht nor the howlets (owls) bothered me.

Walter is coming to London ???????

He is, indeed

(Well, it's atually more the Essex/Greater London/Herts-corner :wink: )

Yippppppeeeeeeeeee !!! This time I will defi come and see you guyz !!!

Are you going by rail or by car? I'm totally jealous...have been exploring the site. A little bit disappointed as I was hoping for a display about the pre-historical fishing communities such as we saw in the Edinburgh Museum and also... how BIG the fish really were then. Uhmmm, how do you pronounce this last word?

"...she has been restored to her original condition as a sailing Fifie."

(I'm thinking Fie-fee, but I have mis-pronounced practically every Scottish word invented, so it could easily be Fiff-ee, I suppose.) This has to be related to the name, Fife, right?

Sounds relatively inexpensive anyway. Did I understand that right? 26 Euros plus 35 in extras? Or 70 in extras? THAT would be in line with what we have to pay here -- we had an automatic add-on of $110 per flight.


(It WAS a nice lullaby -- sung to you as a child?)

No, piffka, 13 plus 35 Euros = 48€ in total.
(They are [were] selling tickets for 19 € all inclusive today. But due to for unknown reasons, the cheapest price from London is 29.)




(It's a Scottish song.

I was sung to sleep by:
Schlafe, mein Prinzchen, schlaf ein!
Es ruh'n Schäfchen und Vögelein.
Garten und Wiese verstummt,
Auch nicht ein Bienchen mehr summt.
Luna mit silbernem Schein
Gucket zum Fenster herein.
Schlafe beim silbernem Schein,
Refrain:
Schlafe, mein Prinzchen, schlaf ein,
Schlaf ein, schlaf ein!


Sleep, my little prince (that was me!), music by Mozart, however sung by mother, aunt, etc. Which made Mozart turn around in his grave. And due to that noice, I started screaming and couldn't sleep at all.
One of the traumata of my childhood :wink: )

Such curiosity by folks!

Piffka, Keeping to the co-ordinated eye/shirt colour theme, I wore a yellow and red shirt the following morning.

Ros and I got to the Bombay Brasserie at EXACTLY 19.00. Actually we emerged from the tube at Gloucester road just after six. As we had never been there before, I had downloaded a local map. Carefully orienting the map and judging the position of the setting sun (in the west, but it was difficult in a built up area when it was cloudy), I started off in the direction of the restaurant. Luckily, Ros spotted a large red neon sign saying Bombay Brasserie right opposite Gloucester Road Tube Station, so I knew we were getting close.

As we had a little time to spare we walked down Gloucester Road and found a little gated square garden. (cant remember the name). We walked around the square looking at all the pretty georgian houses. They didn't look particulaly posh but I don't think any would be less than £1m.

Then back up towards the Bombay and went in the bar of the hotel next door (Baileys I think). I had 2 small beers and Ros a gin and tonic. £7.35 from memory. I didn't think that was outrageous - it was a nice place. But clearly there are places in London where money is all around (except my pocket).

Then next door to the Bombay. No sign of Gautam. We went inside and sat down. Instantly a waiter welcomed us, I expalined we were in a group , and they brought extra chairs etc. 7.05 an American couple came in and sat on their own. I asked them if they were from Seattle, they looked surprised and said no Baltimore. 7.10 7.15....I decided to explain to the waiter that we were meeting friends who we had never met before...(he looked as if that sort of thing happens all the time)....and that if our friends came in could he sent them to where we were sitting. I did think this was slightly ridiculous myself but no worries! 7.20 7.25 A very smart guy with film star looks came in , Ros naturally thought it was Gautam, but I knew it wasnt!

Then He appeared. With an American couple, so I put 2 and 2 together and this time guessed right!

I make this sound much more dramatic than it was, it really was no problem at all waiting...oops gotta go now , more later