MOOBAA - His journey

moobaa · Post by **moobaa** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 2:28 am 0

Hee hee hee - this is brilliant. A thousand thankyous to any and all for your offers.

@ koworld - brilliant idea mate, I just have to figure out how to pitch it

I'll have to get myself a map, a plan, and nut something out soon, I guess...

Did I mention ":D"? This really does make me grin like a loon

Harlequin · Post by **Harlequin** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 6:54 am 0

My sofas should be free for crashing right through the month, aside from when the Yanks are on them from the 4th to the 7th.

@ Gribbles: Should this be a sticky?

koworld wrote:Moobaa mate, this has got to be one of the most unique trips to the UK - where members of a web forum WHO HAVE NEVER MET YOU, are able to both put you up for a month and get you relayed around the country.

Indeed

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koworld wrote:You really ought to find some spoddy Australian web-tech company keen to get exposure in the UK to sponsor you. Or Microsoft Oz or something.

Sounds like a good idea to me.

H.
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Ahchay · Post by **Ahchay** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 1:14 am 0

Sorry, late to this...

I have a spare bed that can be made available as a London base. And I can probably organise a pickup from heathrow (20 mins away) too if the schedule dictates a couple of days in the capital at the outset

Cheers
Chris

moobaa · Post by **moobaa** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 1:52 am 0

Currently I'm looking at arriving in Heathrow on the 3rd of June & departing on the 28th or 29th (tickets to be booked this week)... JagFest & RV4 are a lock, but the weekends of the 5/6th and 26/27th are free (though the 26/27th is Glastonbury w/e... which 'softies are going?)

Elizian · Post by **Elizian** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 8:26 am 0

There is a spare bed in sunny Northumberland more or less anytime. I shall be at RV4 and a flight back to Newcastle costs about Â£1.64 (Â£13, including taxes, etc.)

I don't know if this has been discussed elsewhere but what use of the Travellama Fund is planned in support of moobaa's visit?
I propose that all transport/accommodation costs incurred within the UK be met by the Fund. (I would have suggested supporting the food and drinks bill but we ain't got that much in the kitty

)

moobaa · Post by **moobaa** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 9:56 am 0

Elizian wrote:There is a spare bed in sunny Northumberland more or less anytime. I shall be at RV4 and a flight back to Newcastle costs about Â£1.64 (Â£13, including taxes, etc.)

Elizian wrote:I don't know if this has been discussed elsewhere but what use of the Travellama Fund is planned in support of moobaa's visit?
I propose that all transport/accommodation costs incurred within the UK be met by the Fund. (I would have suggested supporting the food and drinks bill but we ain't got that much in the kitty )

Awwww, kind offer, but...

Drinks: hell no, I owe so many people beers that it'd just be wrong to hit the Travel Fund for it.

Food: if I'm crashing on people's couches/floors/bandwidth, the least I can do is shout them dinner.

I have no problems paying for an uber-rail pass and scooting around the countryside as quick as British Rail will carry me - if that's feasible, I've no idea about the geography of the UK.

But what I would appreciate is that, if I find myself without a roof over my head for a couple of days (or I get kicked off of someone's couch for rampant acts of cat vandalism), a B&B could be sorted. That'd be nice

But really, I'm sure there are people more deserving of Travellama funding than I.

stark · Post by **stark** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 5:35 pm 0

of course you are more than welcome to crash at mine too, though i'm only an ickle way ( 20 miles or so) north of gravy/biscs/bluey/korruptor and petersfield is, frankly, shit with nothing to do in it. but, all the same.

Sickboy · Post by **Sickboy** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 8:37 am 0

I can't be arsed to read the rest of this, but here's another offer of a London base - and I could easily nab you from Heathrow on the 3rd, Pete...

Lemme know yer flight no./arrival time, etc.

EDIT - just read koworld's post. You should at least get on to a book publisher. I'd love to read your trip as some kind of travel piece:

The Sofas Of Strangers.

Ely · Post by **Ely** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 8:55 am 0

moobaa wrote:...... quick as British Rail .....

Not very often you see them together

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 6:28 pm 0

Sickboy wrote: EDIT - just read koworld's post. You should at least get on to a book publisher. I'd love to read your trip as some kind of travel piece:

It could be a "Flockumentary"

cclemon · Post by **cclemon** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:37 pm 0

Are we sending an arrival party to Heathrow?
Just imagine 50 or 60 people standing in arrivals, waving stuffed cats in the air, yelling "MooBaa!" "MooBaa!"

It'd just be like one of those fashionable-for-about-a-second-last-year flashmob things.

Stone · Post by **Stone** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:23 pm 0

cclemon wrote:Are we sending an arrival party to Heathrow?
Just imagine 50 or 60 people standing in arrivals, waving stuffed cats in the air, yelling "MooBaa!" "MooBaa!"

It'd just be like one of those fashionable-for-about-a-second-last-year flashmob things.

Now THAT is a class idea

Stone

moobaa · Post by **moobaa** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 7:42 am 0

OK, it's time (well, it's prolly a little too late, but what the hell) to nail down some dates.

I'm currently toying with the idea of arriving in Heathrow around midday on Thursday the 3rd, and leaving (again, Heathrow) on Monday the 28th at 10pm.

JagFest and RV4 are a lock, of course... let's plan the rest

Tmuk · Post by **Tmuk** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 8:28 am 0

Stone wrote:
cclemon wrote:Are we sending an arrival party to Heathrow?
Just imagine 50 or 60 people standing in arrivals, waving stuffed cats in the air, yelling "MooBaa!" "MooBaa!"

It'd just be like one of those fashionable-for-about-a-second-last-year flashmob things.
Now THAT is a class idea

Stone

It certainly is...50-60 of us...in sheep costumes...with a steaming mug of tea and a chocolate digestive for moobaa

rowan · Post by **rowan** » Wed May 05, 2004 8:41 pm 0

moobaa, are your flights sorted?