London Tweetup, Friday 29 May (updated)

May 19 2009

As my travel plans for next week are finally complete, it seems that there is an opportunity to put together a tweetup in London for Friday evening, the 29th of May.  I will be in the city during the day for customer meetings, so seems like it would be nice to see some of my friends and readers in London that evening.  Haven't picked a location yet, though on my last visit I became quite partial to the cluster of restaurants and the like along the Thames near Waterloo and the London Eye...maybe something there.

I know that there is also something called "minibar" that night, but that is sold out with a waitlist, and, well, I'm not really looking to sit through a bunch of presentations on a Friday night :-)

Posted this a short time ago on Twitter, and heard already from @mattwhite, @jonmell, @stuartmcintyre, @smcrae, @andypiper, @naquada, @mcalleran, @gazrose, @kerrrainey, @mrports @reesmf.  Post here or Tweet me and I'll make updates as the 29th approaches.  Cheers!

Update as of 25 May: I am planning to arrive at "Canteen" -- Royal Festival Hall, Belvedere Rd, near Waterloo Station and the Thames footbridge to Embankment -- around 5:30 PM.  Maybe earlier, we'll see.

Ed Brill | Highland Park, IL USA Category:  Travel  Add/View Comments [9]

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  1. 1  Ben Poole http://benpoole.com | 5/19/2009 3:49:10 PM

    Gah, going to be in America then :)

    Sure you'll have a grand time—that part of London is a good choice, and pretty handy.

  1. 2  Ports http://www.mrports.com/ | 5/20/2009 8:19:17 AM

    Count me in Ed @mrports

  1. 3  Andy Piper http://andypiper.co.uk | 5/20/2009 8:51:19 AM

    Actually Minibar is surprisingly good for staying on the bleeding edge - the presentations are short, from startups, and the audience is usually well lubricated :-) ... I'd much rather take the opportunity to finally meet up with you, so count me in for this.

  1. 4  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 5/20/2009 8:54:17 AM

    Cheers, Andy. As a location, I'm looking at Canteen

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    And I am going to try to get there early, between 5:30 and 6. I will also make a dinner booking for later (assuming they have availability...) so will be DMing/tweeting/emailing those who have expressed interest to find out who would like to stay on for that.

  1. 5  Dave Hay http://www.davehay.f2s.com | 5/21/2009 12:16:06 AM

    Canteen is pretty good, but I'd also recommend Hay's Galleria, which is a bit further down river towards Tower Bridge.

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    PS For the record, it's PURE COINCIDENCE that the Galleria is named after me - I don't own it, honest guv

  1. 6  Andy Piper http://andypiper.co.uk | 5/28/2009 3:41:08 PM

    Ah! OK. I'd expected things to kick off a little later and actually have a meeting in IBM South Bank 5-~6.30 - so will watch Twitter and come along to catch up with you in an appropriate location after that.

  1. 7  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 5/28/2009 4:48:45 PM

    Andy, I didn't really know what time to call this for, so I picked a time when I can get over there and will happily hang out for a while. I booked a table for dinner for anyone who is up for that as well.

  1. 8  Mick Moignard http://www.mickmoignard.com | 5/29/2009 7:45:45 AM

    See you all there.

    Mick

  1. 9  Farhan Rehman http://life.magitam.org.uk | 5/29/2009 5:03:28 PM

    Looks like I didn't make it to the tweetup in time..

    Guess will have to keep an eye out for the next one!