Highland meet-up

[Ironclad]

It's a real long-shot this one, but I'd like to meet some of you nutbarz eventually. I am in the very south of England, that's my problem.
Timed well I could pick up lonely atheists I spot along the road. Hell of a distance mind..

[Bella Fortuna]

A shame it's not in December.

[Onyx8]

Hmmm... you're buying huh?

[Scot Dutchy]

[quote="Bella Fortuna";p="1463411"]A shame it's not in December. [/quote]

Forget December in Scotland. There is hardly any daylight and it is fucking cold.

[Scot Dutchy]

[quote="Regina";p="1463243"]A Belgium meet-up might be an idea anyway...
It doesn't always have to be the UK. Let them come over .[/quote]

I would consider it.

Fort Augustus is one bridge to far for me especially in Octobert/November. It is cold dark and wet.

[Animavore]

[quote="Ironclad";p="1463399"]It's a real long-shot this one, but I'd like to meet some of you nutbarz eventually. I am in the very south of England, that's my problem.
Timed well I could pick up lonely atheists I spot along the road. Hell of a distance mind.. [/quote]

Why do people already on the island always seem to have a harder time getting to another part of the same island than I do coming from another island?

It's ridiculous. When I went to Edinburgh with Ratz I got there easier and for cheaper than someone who had to get the train from the South of England. Same when I was in Brighton. A girl with us came from Scotland. I was home and in my bed before she'd even reached Wolverhampton even though she left before me. It just seems mad.

[The_Metatron]

[quote="Onyx8";p="1463548"]Hmmm... you're buying huh?[/quote]
Dinner. Drinks are your problem.

There are limits to my wealth, though. Actually, I don't expect many to be able to make it. It's a long ways to go for an overnighter.

Unless a some decide to make a longer trip out of it, which would also be nice.

[Scot Dutchy]

[quote="Animavore";p="1463839"][quote="Ironclad";p="1463399"]It's a real long-shot this one, but I'd like to meet some of you nutbarz eventually. I am in the very south of England, that's my problem.
Timed well I could pick up lonely atheists I spot along the road. Hell of a distance mind.. [/quote]

Why do people already on the island always seem to have a harder time getting to another part of the same island than I do coming from another island?

It's ridiculous. When I went to Edinburgh with Ratz I got there easier and for cheaper than someone who had to get the train from the South of England. Same when I was in Brighton. A girl with us came from Scotland. I was home and in my bed before she'd even reached Wolverhampton even though she left before me. It just seems mad.[/quote]

Just infrastructure. Britain is very bad outside the main corridors. It has trains but the underlying infrastructures are missing. It has a great reliance on cars to move people around.

I can get down to Paris in three hours. Went to Berlin in five hours.
I will be in London next week in four hours. All by train.

[Ironclad]

Correct, this will be a round-trip of 23 hours & 1202 miles. I live fairly rural & it'd take me one hour on the train to get 50 miles,, because of all to level-crossings.
Have a look on the map, Barnstaple - Fort Augustus. It would be fun though.

Oh, Belgium would be cracking! I'd get myself some smokes on the cheap at the same time..

[mattthomas]

I'm going to be up Fort William side in October at some point for Ben Nevis... not sure on the date yet.

[Bella Fortuna]

[quote="Scot Dutchy";p="1463836"][quote="Bella Fortuna";p="1463411"]A shame it's not in December. [/quote]

Forget December in Scotland. There is hardly any daylight and it is fucking cold.[/quote]
Oh I well know - I've been there at all times of year. But I'll be there twice in December, for much of the month.

[Red Celt]

[quote="Bella Fortuna";p="1464097"][quote="Scot Dutchy";p="1463836"]Forget December in Scotland. There is hardly any daylight and it is fucking cold.[/quote]
Oh I well know - I've been there at all times of year. But I'll be there twice in December, for much of the month.[/quote]

Scots men can handle the cold, the wet and the darkness. We're bred that way.

It's still a beautiful country.

[Ironclad]

It's been cold wet and dark in Scotland since 1981..



..million years bce

[mattthomas]

[quote="Ironclad";p="1464146"]It's been cold wet and dark in Scotland since 1981..



..million years bce[/quote]
So you going to drive up and pick me up along the way? I'll pay you in entertaining stories and my own tears, I have an endless supply of both

[Red Celt]

[quote="Ironclad";p="1464146"]It's been cold wet and dark in Scotland since 1981..



..million years bce[/quote]

Mull, Inner Hebrides, Scotland

[Onyx8]

[quote="The_Metatron";p="1463841"][quote="Onyx8";p="1463548"]Hmmm... you're buying huh?[/quote]
Dinner. Drinks are your problem.

There are limits to my wealth, though. Actually, I don't expect many to be able to make it. It's a long ways to go for an overnighter.

Unless a some decide to make a longer trip out of it, which would also be nice.[/quote]


Well, I'll cancel my flight then.

[Bella Fortuna]

[quote="Red Celt";p="1464123"][quote="Bella Fortuna";p="1464097"][quote="Scot Dutchy";p="1463836"]Forget December in Scotland. There is hardly any daylight and it is fucking cold.[/quote]
Oh I well know - I've been there at all times of year. But I'll be there twice in December, for much of the month.[/quote]

Scots men can handle the cold, the wet and the darkness. We're bred that way.

It's still a beautiful country. [/quote]
Some of the Scots men I've seen are pretty fantastic.

[The_Metatron]

[quote="Bella Fortuna";p="1464290"]Some of the Scots men I've seen are pretty fantastic. [/quote]

[Bella Fortuna]

OK, emphasis on SOME...

One ends up with blue paint in the strangest places...

[mattthomas]