Mike I am happy to meet you too. I have met with almost everyone from the old crew at SEF and a couple of the moderators here. It is good to meet the people behind the handles.
I will extend the invitation to my Brittish collegues that might not read this forum.
Let us then make a head count and see what we can do? It does not need to be costly nor complicated to make a great arrangement for such a small group.
regarding accomodation...there are frequent discussions of this on the uk.local.london newsgroup...a groups.google search of that group for "hotels" should get you a fair amount of info...and a number of tasteless jokes
Kings Cross Thistle [thistlehotels.com].
Single rooms:
£38 one night [Saturday]
£76 two nights [Fri+Sat]
Double rooms:
£76 one night [Saturday]
£140 two nights [Fri+Sat]
Prices per room and include full English breakfast.
Looking forward to seeing you all.
Made it for around $250 all incl for round trip ticket and 2 nights.
Though the Thistle website crashed a number of times even after I put in my credit card info. Eventually had to make the reservation by phone.
Looking forward to seeing you all and spending a little time in London.
..and collecting beers from oLeon - if he shows up
side note:
Rumor has it that since there are so many SEO's gathering in one spot that Google is sending out a few covert Googlebot's in full force. They will be in an unmarked GoogleMobile™ taking photographs of all who enter the Cittie of Yorke. After gathering the photographs, they will apply a unique algo to analyze who has the best PageRank™ face. Also, anyone who has a shirt width of 5 pixels, which equals a PageRank™ of 1, will have all their sites banned from the index. In addition, if you are wearing a cloak and/or have the logo of your shirt hidden from all the public on the street you will be banned as well.