Yes we have everything you need

Cheers

Cris.

Bas and I are at the Lass enjoying some pints awaiting the fun. I suppose the meet has begun!

Great stuff, see you guys tonight at Akbars! Leaving London in a couple of hours. Really looking forward to it.

Great Guys

We are currently getting everything ready for tomorrows trip, and will be heading down to Manchester soon.

The meet has begun, no turning back now

Cheers

Cris.

The closely guarded details of Saturday's mystery tour were gradually revealed.

We started at the Anderton boat lift, a marvel of industrial revolution achievement:

http://www.andertonboatlift.co.uk/

Then on to the Antony Gormley 3km x 1km "sculpture" at the beach at Crosby:

http://www.sefton.gov.uk/Default.aspx?page=6216

Then we went onto Blackpool for fish and chips, and the fabled Blackpool Illuminations.

All of which had been on my list of things to do for a while, so well done Cris and Andy. A throughly British day out...

(photos to follow, my hotel broadband connection seems to be lacking somewhat in the broad department)

Ah, don't for get the Albert Docks. Although I didn't see much of that as I had to stay guard on the mini buses, it was Liverpool after all

Cheers

Cris.

What a grand day out! Cris, Andy and the girls worked so hard to achieve such a perfect day: Both in the preparation, and on the day.
An imaginative itinerary of things I've always meant to do! Well Done.
I decided that I couldn't hobble around Manchester on Sunday morning, so I've taken my doctor's advice and come home to put my feet up.
The final clincher was when there was no hot water in the Ibis!
Apologies to everyone for not saying goodbye.

If anyone would like to be a virtual attendee you can skype us at my account c***********s we can only take one stream at a time, but feel free to drop in

Cheers

Cris.

Nicola and I would just like to thank everyone for making the effort to come to the event. I know travelling was a problem for most people this year, but I hope it was worth it

The high point for me was walking on Crosby Beach, it's the best part of a British day out when the Sun comes out just when you need it to.

It was great to see everyone enjoying themselves, I know I had a great time and I always thought the organisers were supposed to have a rubbish time! Although I can't remember when I was this tired before.

A big thanks to Rob S, Patrick and Pim for helping out this afternoon and bringing some interesting things for us to play with. Without your input Andy and I would have surely crashed and burned!

See you all next year, I enjoy being able to play the feely bag game again...

Cheers

Nicola & Cris

PS - Not having a camera with me I have no photo's so if people could share a few with me I would be most grateful

Just wanted to say thanks to Andy and Cris for another awesome weekend, I loved every minute. It was really great to see all you guys again and already looking forward to next year!

It was brilliant

Thanks for such a great weekend, we really enjoyed ourselves.

Quote:

PS - Not having a camera with me I have no photo's so if people could share a few with me I would be most grateful

http://www.norman.cx/photos/?r=Empeg%20European%20meet%202007

I just got home in rainy Holland.
Thanks everyone, i had a great weekend.
I'll post some photo's tomorrow, bedtime now.

Here is a fairly low quality attempt at a panoramic view of the Sunday meet (click for a larger version).



Looking at the photo I've just remembered how good the steak and ale pie was, now I'm hungry

Nice pics Andy.
Look like a fun time was to be had.

Indeed, looks like it was a great meet. Too bad I was stuck on the sofa with my foot in a package

I wanted to at least pop in virtually over skype, but unfortunately a couple of old friend from the US happened to be in Holland and popped in Sunday afternoon to see how I was doing - couldn't really tell them "OK, find something to read, I will be on the computer for the next half an hour"

That's a really good picture Andy!

Do you mind if I forward that onto The Lass for their website ???

Cheers

Cris.

Feel free, I did try creating a larger one, but then all the joins and the noise start to show up too much. I need an external flash...

Here's my pictures:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~schido/fotos/2007%20Empeg%20meet/index.html

Great photos Bas

Okay, what's the deal with The Hacienda/Factory family tree?

It was at the entrance of the hacienda exhibition in urbis (the building where andym works)

Okay, well, that makes sense.

My pics are up. As usual, I go for quantity rather than quality.
http://robricc.smugmug.com/gallery/6119533_gjNYK

Thanks again to Cris, Andy, Nicola and Amy!

Despite being totally knackering, I had such a great time and pretty much enjoyed every single minute of it. I only took a few pics with my phone so it's probably not worth posting them!