DigitalHeMan Posted October 14, 2017 Share #41 Posted October 14, 2017 Advertisement (gone after registration) Consequently I've been pounding the pavements again today and I think I feel like Andy does. Pete. It is certainly a good place to keep the step counting apps happy.... Sent from my VTR-L09 using Tapatalk 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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brunomigas Posted October 14, 2017 Share #42 Posted October 14, 2017 Hi, Just to let everybody know what a great team of jolly good fellas you all are! Thanks for the warm welcome...again this year. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cecilia Posted October 15, 2017 Share #43 Posted October 15, 2017 Hope you all had a great time. Unfortunately I couldn't join, but I'm sure Vero and Christoph behaved well even without supervision Eagerly awaiting the results! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted October 15, 2017 Author Share #44 Posted October 15, 2017 Just a quick word to thank everyone for their company yesterday. Despite the weather it was a great day in a great city. The dinner was just right too. I trust everyone has a safe journey home and I look forward to seeing your entries in due course. I will post a reminder when we get back next weekend. Here's to the next one, in Lyon, on 13th October 2018 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted October 15, 2017 Share #45 Posted October 15, 2017 Here's to the next one, in Lyon, on 13th October 2018 A great destination - I have friends who live in Lyon. The gastronomic capital of France (well that’s what the Lyonaise say). 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
earleygallery Posted October 15, 2017 Share #46 Posted October 15, 2017 So sorry I had to miss Rome. I immediately regretted not going but had a little break here down to Hastings where the weather was really nice! I was thinking Hastings could be a good challenge spot too but Lyon is an interesting choice and I hope to make it next year. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandokan Posted October 15, 2017 Share #47 Posted October 15, 2017 Advertisement (gone after registration) A great destination - I have friends who live in Lyon. The gastronomic capital of France (well that’s what the Lyonaise say). The Alsacians might disagree with that . Ile de Hausern is not a bad little village bistro/restaurant. As would those in Marseilles (running joke), as it was the city that first came first, only to come second in some strange Italian restaurant mathematics, that only the Improbability Drive could explain. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brunomigas Posted October 15, 2017 Share #48 Posted October 15, 2017 Lyon is a great choice. And is pretty near Geneva! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spylaw4 Posted October 16, 2017 Share #49 Posted October 16, 2017 I've been to Lyon some years ago and it isn't that great a place IMO. Hope it has considerably improved since then! Having said that, I would like to thank Andy for all the organisational hard work he did. It proved to be a really good weekend. Thanks for all your hard work! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spylaw4 Posted October 16, 2017 Share #50 Posted October 16, 2017 Just having a browse at trains to Lyon. The direct service avoiding Paris (greatly to be desired) doesn't run except on M, F, Sa in October, according to "The Man in Seat 61". So unless things change.... Grrh! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted October 16, 2017 Share #51 Posted October 16, 2017 Just having a browse at trains to Lyon. The direct service avoiding Paris (greatly to be desired) doesn't run except on M, F, Sa in October, according to "The Man in Seat 61". So unless things change.... Grrh! Brian, Easyjet fly to Lyon from Luton. By train I guess it would be a case of taking the Metro from Gare du Nord to Gare de Lyon to make the connection. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
farnz Posted October 16, 2017 Share #52 Posted October 16, 2017 Just having a browse at trains to Lyon. The direct service avoiding Paris (greatly to be desired) doesn't run except on M, F, Sa in October, according to "The Man in Seat 61". So unless things change.... Grrh! Brian, You could take Eurostar from St Pancras International to Lille Europe and then a direct TGV service from Lille Europe to Lyon Part Dieu (about 3 hours). I'm likely to take the train and for me going through Paris is greatly to be desired. It'll give me an (admittedly weak) excuse to stay a night or two in Paris on the way there and back. Pete 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myvalko Posted October 16, 2017 Share #53 Posted October 16, 2017 (edited) Hi, Great destination which has been selected. Calendar already booked for it :-) Waiting forward to see you all there. Hoping to see your nice pictures from the Rome challenge!! Cheers David Edited October 16, 2017 by Myvalko 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spylaw4 Posted October 17, 2017 Share #54 Posted October 17, 2017 Brian, You could take Eurostar from St Pancras International to Lille Europe and then a direct TGV service from Lille Europe to Lyon Part Dieu (about 3 hours). I'm likely to take the train and for me going through Paris is greatly to be desired. It'll give me an (admittedly weak) excuse to stay a night or two in Paris on the way there and back. Pete I was trying to avoid a train change, and also avoid passing through Paris. However it looks as though I'll have to change trains in Lille. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
masjah Posted October 17, 2017 Share #55 Posted October 17, 2017 Back home yesterday evening. Flight from Rome to Heathrow was about an hour late taking off (allegedly related to Heathrow slowing things down in advance of the hurricane). Many people complaining of impossibility of on-line check-in for the return hop, so queues a bit of a pain, but we got to the gate in time. Got an entertaining brief ribbing from Tom at the Heathrow passport control, who asserted that they wouldn't let me in (but he had forgotten that we were only in transit to the People's Republic of Yorkshire). Thanks to everyone for a really enjoyable get together, but especially to Andy for a spectacularly pleasant and good value dinner, as well as all the rest of his hard work! Look forward to Lyon 2018. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanetomlane Posted October 17, 2017 Share #56 Posted October 17, 2017 Really enjoyed Rome, the weather, food, beer and intellectual conversation was, as always most stimulating. Andy, many thanks again for all the effort you put into organizing these challenges, we certainly appreciate it, as I'm sure others do. Looking forward to Lyon, although will have to put some water into the Land Rover's washers before we leave, probably around the end of April. Thanks again to all. Cheers, Tom & Eileen 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StS Posted October 17, 2017 Share #57 Posted October 17, 2017 My best thanks to Andy for the organisation and to everyone for coming. Having had my second visit to Rome, I tried a "no-queueing-approach": The density of art is so high that there are lots of less-visited churches, which still have, say, a Caravaggio hanging. Stefan 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mca Posted October 17, 2017 Share #58 Posted October 17, 2017 I am envy of all of you, unfortunately it wasn't possible for me to join you in Rome. Hopefully in Lyon in 1 year time. I hope you had a good time! In the mean time, I'll wait for some photos to come up in the forum regards to all! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
octo Posted October 18, 2017 Share #59 Posted October 18, 2017 Waiting for the film to be processed. Once more a big thank you to Andy for a flawless organization; Really nice to meet again in such a city; I hope Lyon can hold up to such expectations. It's been known to rain, occasionally 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StS Posted October 18, 2017 Share #60 Posted October 18, 2017 That wouldn't bother me, taking some poetic licence, I guess we have two-hundred different words for rain over here... Stefan 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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