Travel Blog Camp 2008
Just a short note with a few impressions:
Kudos for Darren for organizing it and for the speakers to get the room a bit heated up. There really were about 80 bloggers, industry reps and pr types. Location was excellent.
Roaming Tales has posted a nice summary.
I had hoped that my new Blackberry was a better instrument than it turned out to be and am probably regretting I didn’t choose for an Iphone. It was frozen during most of today. Now I have learned that the Blackberry variant of cntr alt delete is: Pull out your battery. This doesn’t necessarily means a Blackberry is a bad thing. I’m even able to freeze an Apple computer withing 5 minutes of using it.
All in all I arrived later than I anticipated and missed a speaker (Alex). But I missed a lot of what actually happened and was said anyway, because I tried to concentrate making some nice photos. Not sure how they turned out, because I rather process them at home on my own computer. So you’ll have to wait until probably Sunday when I will have some time to process them. And here, Kevin, speaks the Blogger who takes his time. A (photo) journalist would have put every effort in posting these photos today (err last night).
When after the speeches and debate I stepped outside with some fellow smokers and returned, more than 2/3rd of the people were gone already. That amazed me a bit. Haha especially Darren must have been worn out as he didn’t take me up on my offer to have another beer. Big question here: “Are the Dutch Better beer drinkers than the Brits?”
Today I took off to spend with DW. Tomorrow I will roam a bit over WTM. Anybody wanting to see me can DM me at Twitter | Happy Hotelier
CU soon
“Are the Dutch Better beerdrinkers than the Brits?†. Hehe. 😀
Any other findings from the camp?
http://tourguides.viator.com/
local guides, local wisdom
Now although Darren denies it, the evidence is on the table
http://heatheronhertravels.blogspot.co.uk/2008/11/at-travel-blog-camp-in-london.html
Darren’s Problem seems to be Drinking two pints at Once, one glass two thirds empty, one glass a mouthful gone. This is obviously probably Fullers brewery from London, Whereas the Finished Pint is probably good old John Smith’s from Yorkshire.
Darren looks like he is also a heavy Smoker, not content with a box of Swan Vestas, Darren also has his own branded Megabox of matches with Travel Rants on the cover of the box ( No doubt he would tell you these were his business cards!!)
I’m sorry I missed the event Guido.
Hopefully available for BC2