UK 2009 25th Warm-up meet? (title changed)

by **Giuseppe** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 4:39 am

Ok, found them - these were Reds original short-listed locations from the first UK mini-meet in April 07.....we ended up at Budds Farm Barn but I think the favourite was either THE GRANARY or BLUEBELLS (which Andy continually called 'Blueballs'!!)

The prices quoted below were all from 2007 so are most likley obselete now so please dont consider these as definite.

These may be a good starting point for location ideas - Let me, or let Red I guess, know what you all think:

The Granary
Location: Manningtree, Essex
Sleeps: 6 +2 on sofa bed
Price: Â£70 or Â£50 for those on the sofa bed

A restored mid 1700s barn with features throughout, including a sauna and BBQ and hot-tub out on the decking!
Close to the coast and historic Colchester.

More details can be found here
Link to Google Map

Shoreham Beach House
Location: Shoreham, near Brighton, Sussex
Sleeps: 8 +3 on "occasional" beds (sofa beds)
Price: Â£104 (will go down if more people attend)

Private beach house with direct beach access. 4 miles from Brighton and all its attractions.

More details can be found here
Link to Google Map

Budds Farm Barn
Location: Wittersham, Kent
Sleeps: 8 +2 on sofa bed
Price: Â£93 (will go down if more people attend)

A restored mid 1700s barn with features throughout. 8 miles from the coast and close to historic Tenterden and Rye. Not far from Hastings either.

More details can be found here
Link to Google Map

Lavendar Cottage
Location: Bursledon, near Southampton
Sleeps: 8
Price: Â£93

Grand cottage set in grounds of natural importance with many wildlife visitors to the garden. Nearby village has working flour mill and 55 acres of nature and wildlife. Southampton and Portsmouth near by.

More details can be found here
Link to Google Map

Bluebells
Location: Petts, near Hastings, Sussex
Sleeps: 10
Price: Â£77

Large house with decking and large grounds, less than a mile from the beach. In the heart of 1066 area. Lots of 14th century sites to visit.

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by **ascadol** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 5:45 am

They all really great looking places. thumbup

Just done a quick check and all the places are more or less 4 and half hours away by car sad:^(

by **Giuseppe** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 6:35 am

ascadol wrote:They all really great looking places.
Just done a quick check and all the places are more or less 4 and half hours away by car sad:^(

4 and a half hours isnto toooo bad for a long weekend of fun, fun. fun is it? Sound like one thing to me...........ROAD TRIP!!

by **ascadol** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 8:44 am

Giuseppe wrote:
4 and a half hours isnto toooo bad for a long weekend of fun, fun. fun is it? Sound like one thing to me...........ROAD TRIP!!

4.5hrs in a car a nightmare trust me. If its this far Ill have to pull out.

by **merk** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 8:45 am

I remember one thing from this.....

HOT TUB!!!!

by **Red** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 5:38 pm

These were all based around the attendants living in or flying into the South-East. We'll have a look to see if there's somewhere that suits everyone. That said, it would still be worth the 4.5 hours Chris. You could probably pick up a Goonie or two and the journey would fly by.

by **Hooli** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 6:00 pm

You Brits are sissies.

I just did an 8 day road trip, and it was *awesome*

by **ascadol** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 4:47 pm

Red wrote:These were all based around the attendants living in or flying into the South-East. We'll have a look to see if there's somewhere that suits everyone. That said, it would still be worth the 4.5 hours Chris. You could probably pick up a Goonie or two and the journey would fly by.

I suppose 4.5hrs would be do able as long as most of it was motorway with adequate stops ever so often. I prefer driving at night less traffic to worry about.

I don't think there are many Goonies, my way, I could pick-up as most of you seem to live down south near London. sad:^(
I'll just have to go slowly mad in my car with only myself to speak too. sick:^(

If anything could be suggested which would reduce a potential 4.5hr ish travel down it would be greatly appreciated.

A more central location perhaps or more west of London. Just ideas, where ever best really.

I am afraid I don't know how to flag the nearest flying saucer down must have left my sub-ether device lying around somewhere. what>:^(

by **Red** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 12:31 am

If Ciara comes she could be shipping in to Liverpool and Merk lives in Peterborough, so might be able to meet you near Birmingham. Couple of maybes there already.

I will bear you in mind when looking for houses. Somewhere NW of London would be good

by **Faythe_Lily** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 6:36 am

I'm with Hooli! Some of you Brits are wussies! Hell...it takes me 5 hours just to get to Austin or Houston. Suck it up! Fill up the tank! Put on some good tunes and hit the road!

by **Red** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:22 am

Hahaha I should bookmark this post for after you've been here and done a 5 hour drive/crawl

by **RelicMaker** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:26 am

LOL! Looks like Chris is setting a poor example for Brits and Roadtrips! what>:^(

by **shaz** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:56 am

hahaha You USA folks wouldn't be saying that if you road-tripped on our roads. Google the M25, it's the largest car park in the world.

I hear you Chris ...

shaz x

by **Hooli** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 12:46 pm

Dude, seriously. I come from the country where it takes me 3 hours to get home if it snows. I GET parking lots. I also just experienced a perplexing one in the middle of the Mojave Desert. Seriously! There are no people in the Mojave Desert, yet I was in the middle of a 4 lane traffic jam, on a Tuesday afternoon.

I *get* that it's not fun... but if 5 hours in a traffic jam is the price you have to pay to get to hang out with the coolest people in the world, it seems to me a small price to pay.

by **ascadol** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 4:31 pm

Hooli wrote:Dude, seriously. I come from the country where it takes me 3 hours to get home if it snows. I GET parking lots. I also just experienced a perplexing one in the middle of the Mojave Desert. Seriously! There are no people in the Mojave Desert, yet I was in the middle of a 4 lane traffic jam, on a Tuesday afternoon.

I *get* that it's not fun... but if 5 hours in a traffic jam is the price you have to pay to get to hang out with the coolest people in the world, it seems to me a small price to pay.

Your forgetting one thing, over the pond you have very long, wide and straight roads stretching for miles, sometimes made of ice that cross lakes, the majority have hardly any traffic on them.

You also have fewer junctions to negotiate and you have never experienced dreaded round-abouts which are very popular in the UK. Other motorists can not seem to figure out how to negotiate....

Also majority of the people in the UK drive real manual cars on the correct side of the road. Our steering wheel even on the correct side of the car. We have non of this automatic rubbish and no comfy cruse control, no air con, so we can not sit back and relax.

Also the Rozzers seem to be very keen on stopping and advising people so you have to keep your beady eye out for them.

We have to keep our wits about us. If you don't you could quite easily have an accident.

by **Hooli** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 4:58 pm

Your information is largely flawed, my friend.

We do indeed have roundabouts. People here can't drive them, either.

Also - this is not the arctic. Yes, we have snow, but no, we do not regularly drive over lakes. That happens way up north, but not where Canada's population lives. Most of Canada's population actually lives in these newfangled things called "cities". Apparently they are much tougher in to drive than the farms of our youth. No more driving the tractor to school! I think they may have come into being around the same time as electricity. We're still waiting on that in some parts.

I am not sure you would consider Los Angeles as having 'hardly any traffic'. 30 million people in any area tends to be a lot of traffic.

Oddly enough, we also have manual cars here. Many people prefer them. That being said, manual or automatic, people everywhere can't drive, I don't think it makes that big a difference.

by **Red** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 5:46 pm

Haha Nice one Chris. Hooli, you know how I am about driving, and I'm saying it's very different over here. Short trips down country lanes are great fun, but road trips are not. There is not much space between city boundaries here, so as soon as you leave one you often start entering another. All in all, 3 hours is a long trip in England, because there's no interesting outpost scenary or quanit places to stop at. You have to be going there, it's not just by the side of the road. You'll see all this in September

by **Hooli** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 8:56 pm

I'm not saying it's not different. I am well aware that driving sucks there. But it's just driving. It's not rocket science, it's not brain surgery, and it's not even a 5 hour trip to the dentist.

What I'm trying to get across is this...

If you don't want to drive a few hours to see your Goonie friends, you're a raging loser. Bad roads, good roads... this group of people is worth seeing when you have the opportunity.

by **merk** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 8:54 am

He doesn't know that yet though Hooli. He's probably thinking we're gonna be a right bunch of turds so why drive 5 hours when he can hang out with turds in Bolton instead

:):):)

(jk....)

by **ascadol** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 2:03 pm

merk_the_goonie wrote:He doesn't know that yet though Hooli. He's probably thinking we're gonna be a right bunch of turds so why drive 5 hours when he can hang out with turds in Bolton instead :):):)

(jk....)

Like you say you can not polish a turd. :twisted:

by **merk** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 2:31 pm

ascadol wrote:
merk_the_goonie wrote:He doesn't know that yet though Hooli. He's probably thinking we're gonna be a right bunch of turds so why drive 5 hours when he can hang out with turds in Bolton instead :):):)

(jk....)

Like you say you can not polish a turd.

*tries to think of a Polish joke...................... but can't*

by **ascadol** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 3:22 pm

merk_the_goonie wrote:
ascadol wrote:
merk_the_goonie wrote:He doesn't know that yet though Hooli. He's probably thinking we're gonna be a right bunch of turds so why drive 5 hours when he can hang out with turds in Bolton instead :):):)

(jk....)

Like you say you can not polish a turd.

*tries to think of a Polish joke...................... but can't*

"You can go off some people, you know...."

by **shuckymomo** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 5:33 am

That beach house looks nice, but it's the most expensive. I'm sure my fellow Goonies will make a good choice! Just know that I'll most likely be flying into London, if I come.

by **shuckymomo** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 1:41 am

Helloooooo, McFly?????? whip()

Any new news??

Geez, just like in high school, they all ignore me.... what>:^(

Awww, you know I love ya!!

by **merk** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 1:54 am

shuckymomo wrote:Helloooooo, McFly??????

That's my morning laugh

Thanks man.

I'm just waiting for other people to tell me where and when I'm going somewhere. I suppose I should actually be helping out with this seeing as I have quite a bit of free time at the moment. Nobody asked me to do anything though so I can only assume the planning is all being done

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