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TPF Noob!
Due to massive demand, a meetup is planned for October 19th in Oxford - the city of dreaming spires.
Lots of attempts to create an Oxford meet have been met with nonchalance and no bugger turning up, so here is your chance to rectify things.
Mr Lostprophet is booking his ticket via thetrainline.com and is hoping he won't have to change at Didcot as the last time he set foot in the magical south oxfordshire kingdom, he was locked in quarantine for 3 months being regularly hosed down with ice cold water from Farmoor reservoir.
For those travelling from distant parts, the trains are crap on a Sunday so either drive down or book a travelodge deal well in advance and share a bed with a stranger or something.
It will be a fun packed day, we can go to a couple of musesums that are free to get in - the natural history museum so you can take pics of dinosaurs and stuff, the ashmolean so you can take pics of mummies and things, and eve the museum of modern art where you can't take photos but you can wonder how people make money out of the stuff they stick on the walls or ceilings or floors.
If the weather is nice, University parks is a nice walk with a visit to mesopotamia which leads you along the road to a church who's graveyard is also a wildlife sanctuary and they actively leave the grass to grow in most of it - so some chilleresque shots to be had there.
It's not a big city, but there are lots of photo opportunities - and pubs.
So come and visit and make a dull October day into a thrill packed adventure that is not to be missed! :mrgreen:
(did I sell it Andy?)
Lots of attempts to create an Oxford meet have been met with nonchalance and no bugger turning up, so here is your chance to rectify things.
Mr Lostprophet is booking his ticket via thetrainline.com and is hoping he won't have to change at Didcot as the last time he set foot in the magical south oxfordshire kingdom, he was locked in quarantine for 3 months being regularly hosed down with ice cold water from Farmoor reservoir.
For those travelling from distant parts, the trains are crap on a Sunday so either drive down or book a travelodge deal well in advance and share a bed with a stranger or something.
It will be a fun packed day, we can go to a couple of musesums that are free to get in - the natural history museum so you can take pics of dinosaurs and stuff, the ashmolean so you can take pics of mummies and things, and eve the museum of modern art where you can't take photos but you can wonder how people make money out of the stuff they stick on the walls or ceilings or floors.
If the weather is nice, University parks is a nice walk with a visit to mesopotamia which leads you along the road to a church who's graveyard is also a wildlife sanctuary and they actively leave the grass to grow in most of it - so some chilleresque shots to be had there.
It's not a big city, but there are lots of photo opportunities - and pubs.
So come and visit and make a dull October day into a thrill packed adventure that is not to be missed! :mrgreen:
(did I sell it Andy?)
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