Meeting

Isn't this forum sometimes just like a chatroom? ;-))
Plastic palm trees, plastic flamingos, discussions about the quality of the morning coffee..... I love it!

Meeting each other face to face however is something different and the Netherlands aren't that large. When you 're in the centre it is usually within a 100 miles.
That 's less far than Jodi's coffee.

Leen

> Meeting each other face to face however is something different and the
Netherlands aren't that large. When you 're in the centre it is usually
within a 100 miles.

Leen,

Why not think big and get 'everyone' together. I was thinking Azores might
be fairly central but that is still a long way for Susan :)

All this conversation brings out new ideas for photos and using elements I
believe. I may go out and take some pictures of my new growth in the yard
that surrounds my "Plastic Flamingos"; pineapple plants, Guacamole tree,
Mango trees, Three new Papaya Trees last week, and an Elephant ear plant
that is Huge after only 40 days and also has sprouted another one a foot
way. And not to forget the seventy or eighty palm trees that make mowing
the grass a "close course" event every week.

(Maybe those flamingos are the only color out there but everything is green
12 months a year:)!

Pete

Pete - I'm in Toronto 8-14 (or something like that) of September, followed by a couple of days somewhere near Albany, followed by a month in London/Oxford/Cambridge (mainly London). I would love to meet any forum regulars that live within reasonable distance during my travels. Probably a bit more convenient than the Azores!

My garden is a flamingo free zone. i do however have a small garden gnome with the obligatory fishing rod - he belongs to one of my daughters.

Susan S

Susan, probably I will be in Cambridge for a few days at the same time as you to attend a print competition.
(Next Saturday I 'll be in London to cover a wedding, but I will return with the first ferry on Sunday morning.)
I would love to meet you. Let's keep in touch.

Leen

Leen - I'm not sure exactly when or how much time I'll be in Cambridge yet - my husband is visiting the law school for a couple of weeks, but it's yet to be decided whether me and the kids will stay there or whether I'll just stay at home in London and and come up for a couple of day trips - depends on the accomodation costs. Let me know when you are going to be there and I'll see what I can do.

sestewart@ozemail.com.au

Ray - London, England - my parents live there! I always forget that there's one in Canada too!

susan S

Susan S.

Ray, St. Petersburg isn't far from where Pete lives!

Oh....do you mean St. Petersburg in Russia??

:-)

Chuck

Leen,

I'm usually very carefull about my gear, but I'll be more carefull this
time. I'm used to travelling with my Canon Elan 7e and several lenses, and
carefully hiding it when people get too close to me. But since we're two
men travelling, that usually helps to lower temptation to steal our stuff :)

Thanks for the advice!

Ray

St Petersburg is a beautiful city - or it was when I was last there - I went there in 1974 when it was still Leningrad, as part of a school trip. Mind you after Moscow at that period, anything would seem like a blessed relief. It would be interesting to go back, but I don't think it's as safe for travellers as it was then.
Susan S