Travelers Room Meet In London
January 2002
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We were planning the meeting at the Long Island Iced Tea Shop in Covent Garden, London at 6pm,
but nog and panchita did an afternoon survey of that place and decided it's horrible and took an "executive decision" to relocate to another more comfy pub nearby.
After a train journey to London and checking into my hotel, my first contact with Traveler's Room was a phone call from Aros in the afternoon, suggesting we meet up with nog and princessmel at the Pizza Hut in Leicester Square.
I arrived there to find nog and panchita waiting outside, (I recognised nog immediately, but mistook panchi for princessmeluk as it was mel I was expecting). Aros joined us a few minutes later, and we went round to The Salisbury pub, where Billy was saving a vacant table for us. The plan was to send missionaries to the original location to redirect our chatfriends to join us in The Salisbury. During the next few hours our group swelled to more than 20, all chatting, hugging, drinking, photographing and looking , many for the first time, at the real live faces of our friends we've known so well in cyberspace for so long, yet never until this evening met in real life !
we soon had
(listed in alphabetical order)
Aquarian &
Mrs Aqua.
Aros.
Billy.
Happylilvegemite
Ibicencan & Margreet.
Nogin_The_Nog.
Northernedge & Mr Northern.
Panchita_Jones.
Princessmeluk & Tony.
Skydancer-Shakti & Thai Friend. (Worasit Leelasuwanich)
Sleepybag.
Spuitwater.
Stevetheplumber.
Tropy.
Yummy .....................................[ if I've forgotten to mention anyone
here, I blame it on old age and excessive alcohol and
ask you to remind me as soon as possible who I forgot so that they can be added
and save my embarrassment ]
All too soon the pub was closing and we all went to The Sound Bar, for more dancing drinking and photographs, it was actually whilst here that happylilvegemite joined us.
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I will add more to this soon , and photos are here ! But, why not take a look at Panchi's page for
more info, http://www.panchitajones.com/london/
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