A2K London Meet

Any fruit juice, tonic-, mineral- etc water is fine for me.

Besides, even in my "best" drinking days I preferred a 'Pils' to any Bavarian beer.

So thats 4 oaks 2 cheese a ship and some curry. And a bottle of mineral water. The resolution will not pass. Cameroon likely to abstain, France to employ a veto. Russians drunk all the vodka already.

Progress on process but not on substance.

And...Arsenal just equalised I'm missint it damminit

Hi Londoners, What's the best tube route from Picadilly Circus to the oaks? c.i.

Hooray, A2K is back, and so am I.

Morning, all. Happy Sunday, schoenen Sonntag.

McT

Sunday, what an apt name for warm sunny spring day. That means gardening till 3pm then it's England vs Italy in the rugby 6 Nations Champioship on the TV.

ci, hi again.

One of the most rewarding pastimes for visitors to London, I think, is getting to know the tube. Or the Tube. And using it of course.

At every Underground station (if they haven't run out) you can pick up a handy-sized folded map of the layout of the lines and stations.
And of course, the map is everwhere handily shown, fixed to the walls.

The Tube is to me one of the Wonders of the World (Londoners, no comment necessary on its reliability, overcrowdedness and old-fashionedness. Foreigners, don't copy my English, it's crap )

London is a six-dimensional city to me: three above ground, and three beneath. I know that's not very scientifically put, but still.

And to answer your question c.i., I expect Piccadilly Circus is on the Piccadilly Line, and so is Holborn. If we go there.

McT

McTag, Actually, I've been to London many times, and have some knonwledge of the Underground. Even spent one month in London about 15 years ago - in February. It will come back to my grey cells very quickly, I'm sure. c.i.

ci

2 stops on the Piccadilly line from Piccadilly circus to Holborn

http://www.afn.org/~alplatt/tube.html

couldn't be easier.

Does this imply that the venue is SETTLED?

What time?

Steve

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I meant 3 stops

(cant have you getting lost and wandering around asking perfect strangers if they communicate on a2k...might get you arrested)

Steve, No problem. I'll act like a tourist from Japan.
Okay; three stops, but what time? It's getting close to that time, and we should not wait another couple of weeks before we decide on the time..... kitchenpete, Gautam, oak? c.i.

Indeed, it would be fine to know the time (I'm arriving by 4 o'clock in the afternoon that day, have to go to my B&B before, than take the train, tube, bus .. whatever).

We've had various suggestions on where to meet.

Can we have a vote?

I nominate KP, the resident Cockney Sparrer, our man in the City, as vote-rigger in chief and final arbiter.

Then we can decide 19.00 hrs as a time to meet.

Looking forward to this immensely.

McT

1900 is tooooooooo late !!! I have to start drinking by 1800

I believe the pubs will open about 11.00 am for enthusiastic drinkers........

McTag, 11AM? Do you also have AA in London? c.i.

Oh yea, KP has my vote too! c.i.

I'm honoured! [Put on Leadership hat - the tricorn one that makes me look like a slightly fatter version of Nelson!]

I stand by my earlier suggestion and will qualify it with a real plan:

Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese at 18:00 - I'll book an area for 8 (I think that's enough) when I'm nearby, tomorrow. It's got real character!

Curry at Gautam's friend's restaurant at (?) 21:00 - Gautam, can you book this?

If I don't hear dissenting voices [re-locate to Florida and change my name to Bush], I'll post directions/maps when it's all booked.

McTag - thanks for your electoral support. My London roots don't go as far as being a Cockney, however, though I'll try to use as much rhyming slang as possible when we're in the rub-a-dub or stuffing the ruby into our boats!

Kitchenpete, ya well 're a born leader! i'm lookin' forward ter this century-event, 'opin' -however- that I won't need aw the bleedin' ovver days of me london stay for recreation from that night!

Walter, I like your new avatar. Thank ya, KP, for do'n the honors. c.i.

Diamond geezer, KP