[SJ Del (The Train Man)]

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news (especially on the 100th reply) but I might not be able to do this now
Personal circumstances may change rather quickly and if they do, I'll be living in the UK again by September.
I'm meeting up with some of the other Irish Joinees on Saturday (2nd June) and we'll try and thrash out some way that it can still go ahead.
But if not, then I'm afraid I'll have to cancel the meet.

I really hope I don't have to but there may be no choice. Sorry

[Au Joinee Rory]

MHP Joinee Del (GA), on 29 May 2007, 09:45 AM, said:

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news (especially on the 100th reply) but I might not be able to do this now
Personal circumstances may change rather quickly and if they do, I'll be living in the UK again by September.
I'm meeting up with some of the other Irish Joinees on Saturday (2nd June) and we'll try and thrash out some way that it can still go ahead.
But if not, then I'm afraid I'll have to cancel the meet.

I really hope I don't have to but there may be no choice. Sorry

What Del means to say, of course, is that he may have to transfer the job of planning this meet. I'm not naturally the organising type—I don't think I'm very good at it—but I won't be sitting back to watch this meet fall apart.

[SJ Del (The Train Man)]

Joinee Rory, on 29 May 2007, 01:28 PM, said:

What Del means to say, of course, is that he may have to transfer the job of planning this meet. I'm not naturally the organising type—I don't think I'm very good at it—but I won't be sitting back to watch this meet fall apart.

Well, I didn't want to presume

[SJ Del (The Train Man)]

OK, the Dublin JoinMeet Organising Commitee, i.e me, Rory, and Linda (joinee_hippy_chick) convened yesterday afternnon and have made concrete plans for this meet

It WILL be on the 8th and 9th September.
We have a venue.
We have a RAoK-ing route - this may be a RAoK challenge, it may not.
We have a Duck-boat-tour-thing - but better than Liverpool, because we have Viking helmets! RAAAR!
We have pub-based funnage,including something that we think has never been done before (ansd almost certainly not in this form!)
We will have Mix-CD distribution
We will have spare time for you to go and do touristy things if you wish (or to go to the pub!)
We are *hoping* to have a minibus or similar to collect people from the airport.

Points to consider:
Dublin is NOT cheap. No Travelodges or anything similar I'm afraid. There are some accomodation ideas further up the thread. There are hostels and B&Bs around though.
Nor are there any Wetherspoons-type '2 meals for £6' pubs. Well, not that we found... To give you an idea, full Irish breakfast is about €8 (about £5.50)
If we can't arrange a minibus, you can get busses from the airport and the ferry ports direct to the City Centre.
The RAoK-ing route includes cobbles. I would advise against high heels
The Viking tour costs €20 (about £13) - if we get 28 people, we can book out the duck-boat-thing and get a discount.

Erm...can't think of anything else just at the moment. Any questions, feel free to PM one of us (although my access is rather sporadic for the next two weeks)

Matt...could we have a sticky please?

[Platinum Joinee Plub]

Joinee Del, on 3 Jun 2007, 05:02 PM, said:

We have a Duck-boat-tour-thing - but better than Liverpool, because we have Viking helmets! RAAAR!

Nothing is better than Liverpool's because they let you DRIVE IT!!!!

Sorry, I shall go away and calm down.

WOOOOO dublin!

[Joinee Ashley]

me & blokey booked our hostel this morning for the trip, I will most likley be attending on the 8th but unsure about the 9th as its blokeys birthday & the reason we are going to dublin
but am so looking forward to it

wahey viking splash tur, been wanting to do it for ages!

This post has been edited by Joinee Leveller Ashley: 03 June 2007 - 04:09 PM

[joinee_hippy_chick]

this is cool . i have never been on a comitee before . it looks like we are going to have some fun

it was great to meet del and rory . the first two joinees i have met in the flesh so to speak . if you are looking for accomdoation i will do my best to direct you where you need to go . sadly i don;t think i can put people up myself . i know there is a hostel in charlemont street about 5 minutes from st stpehens green and buses stop outside . i will look up the name of it . some of my american friends stayed there a couple of years ago . i will report back !

[Ska Joinee Matticus]

I'll be back at Uni in Bangor by then sooooooo... I'm coming. For at least one day, the ferry from Holyhead will sort me out and I can trip back across the sea and sleep in my lovely new house (Providing the landlord has stayed true to his word and finished refurbishments by the time we get there)

Does anyone need a bed? It will involve leaving the merriment of Dublin at some point and getting on the ferry, then a short trip to my place but it will be free.

No guarantees that there will be a bed yet, I haven't been to the house other than to look round and sign the contract (It's a crackin pad though!) and there's always the chance that it won't quite be livable - but that's unlikely.

More details closer to the time, but to give me a rough estimate how many people need free beddage in Bangor?

[Joinee Ashley]

joinee_hippy_chick, on 3 Jun 2007, 05:17 PM, said:

this is cool . i have never been on a comitee before . it looks like we are going to have some fun

it was great to meet del and rory . the first two joinees i have met in the flesh so to speak . if you are looking for accomdoation i will do my best to direct you where you need to go . sadly i don;t think i can put people up myself . i know there is a hostel in charlemont street about 5 minutes from st stpehens green and buses stop outside . i will look up the name of it . some of my american friends stayed there a couple of years ago . i will report back !

Is the hostel in charlemont street called citi hostels by any chance, because thats where me & blokey will be staying, I believe it is quite cheap

[joinee_hippy_chick]

Joinee Leveller Ashley, on 17 Jun 2007, 07:57 PM, said:

Is the hostel in charlemont street called citi hostels by any chance, because thats where me & blokey will be staying, I believe it is quite cheap

you are quite right . sorry i have'nt been here for a while but i have been in london for the last week or so .

[Joinee Ashley]

got flights today!!!!
so excited!
the only thing I have to think of now is blokeys birthday present & whether to give it to him in dublin or when we get back,
oh yeah & travel insurance

[SJ Del (The Train Man)]

Ryanair have a free flights offer on at the moment for flights during September and October. Availability is bound to be limited but you might be lucky!

[Au Joinee Rory]

Breaking news:

In a disappointing contradiction of the seemingly waterproof subtitle of this thread ("It's ON. Definitely. 100% for certain sure.") this meet is now not happening. Unfortunately it seems that apart from a couple of enthusiastic people (who I'm still itching to meet) there just isn't enough interest, and I'm not about to try to convince anyone to trek all the way over when I know there won't be more than a handful of attendees.

Still, there was a lot of initial interest, so there's hope that this could happen at some point further in the future.

See you at Chester/K5/elsewhere.

[Pud]

That's a shame. I would have been there if I didn't have children