h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The Final Arrangements for the day are:

If you are coming to the afternoon shenanigans you should meet the Editorial team in the courtyard of Somerset House at 2pm. Mina and Abi will cross you off the RSVP list and relieve you of a tenner, in exchange for which you will be given a voucher for the Evening festivities. There are two options for the afternoon, Abi will be taken the active sorts on a walking tour of the cultural highspots of Alwdych and Temple. Mina will be hosting a board game tournament in a local pub. The nearest tube station to Somerset House is Temple. If you are taking part in the board game marathon, please let Mina know so the pub she is taking you too can reserve some space.

From six pm onwards we will be partying in the downstairs bar at Penderel's oak, a nice pub on High Holborn halfway between Holborn and Chancery Lane Tube stations. There will be a big buffet, a pub quiz and plenty of time to get to chat to your fellow researchers. There are plenty of vegitarian options on the buffet menu.

Please note that if you are coming only to the Evening section, we are not allowed to sell tickets on the door as this could cause the pub to lose their license, which means you will be forced to drink non-alcoholic drinks. So you should come into the bar and search out Abi or Mina who will be no where near the door.

Thanks

Abi

I'll be board gaming!

I wont be in town until 3pm - can I give my tenner to Mina in the pub, away from the door bien sur! Mrs SM wont be attending

Liam.

Hi

That's fine Liam! Send our best wishes to your good lady.

*wanders through humming The Final Countdown*

...doo-doo-doodle-oo-dee-doo... it's the Final Countdown...

Cool!

I think I'll be joining the early day drinking society mean the board game group : Can I just turn up at the pub they are having it at, and then get the ticket? As I doubt I'll be up early enough tomorrow to get a train and taxi to the meeting place at 2 PM actually train times where did railtrack go

That should be fine 2Legs. I take it you know where you are going?

I'll be turning up at the Board Games Pub as well - after I've, hopefully, been to the Star Trek exhibition.

A tenner? What's that?

shazz

Me? Know where I am going? hm, no, but only cause I've not checked the page to find out I guess I'll get taxi straight from Kings to the pub for the board game antics and then tag along everyone else to where the evening event is and then taxi back to Kings for a train, which, I hope, leaves just after middnight

I cannot find mention of the afternoon pub. I won't be able to make it until around 4ish...and I ain't gonna sit on me tod in the Penderels Oak ta muchly. Please help...

from the page on the meet:
"If all this sounds too much like hard work, then why not
exercise your brain in the h2g2 Board Games Challenge. This is to be held in the Shakespeare's Head, Holborn, and will include the h2g2 Top Trumps Challenge".

I think it will be happening from about 2 Onwards; or how long it takes people to get from teh meeting place at 2 PM to the pub though I'm not sure what time it will go on to, I imagine I might just be there at about 3 so wouldn't be thinkging of leaving till gone 4 depending how far the evening joint is away, I think they are in teh same rough geological location

2leg...whoever said I actually READ the page???? After all, I am working you know..

Good point very good point : do you have a mobile number of someone attending the afternoon thing; So if you turn up and its empty you can phone to find out where they have all descended to actually I've not got anyones mobile number who's going

The Shakespeare's Head is on Kingsway very close to Holborn tube station; basically turn left out of the tube and you're practically there.

Any idea how long it will take to get there from Kings cross in a taxi, Hope it won't be too* expensive

Holbourn is 2 stops away from kins cross on the Picachilli line, so it'll most likely take about 10 minutes in a cab (accounting for traffick eta) 2legs..

*Zantic-knows how far things are booked train : talk about organised :

Depart Cambridge (25.01.03); 14:45.
Arrive London Kings Cross 15:33.

Duration: 0:48

Get lost; (ten minutes).
find Cab; (ten minutes),
Cab journey (ten minutes),
Drink first pint (less than five minutes).
Order second pint (five minutes).
Drink second pint (five minutes).
Drink more (several hours).

Depart London Kings Cross; (26.01.03); 00:04
Arrive Cambridge; 1:10

Duration: 1:06
makes you wonder why the train is soooo much slower after middnight : Hope the buffet is on the train; give me something to do, knock back a few beers Hmmm, perhaps I should have gone for an earlier train to get me up to the capital
Hope the cabs are still in teh Cambridge station taxi rank at that time Hmm, could get a cab straight to one of Cambridges dull and awful night clubs

The last train either makes more stops, or is diagrammed behind a stopping service. (Train)

Hmm, yep; I'd figured it was one of the annoying trains from cambridge to kings cross, that stops at all the little places inbetween, only I couldn't figure out why one of the last trains of the night/earliest of the morning, required to go to them all Oh well, I'll have to lock myself in the toilet and have a smoke