Barcelona Celebration 20 and 21-09-2009

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Re: Barcelona Celebration 20-09-2009

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Hi Maarten, I always thought Mary's idea was great, would love to participate in this as if we had them for the New York Beacon event, I would have met many more people. Thank you in advance.

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You guys just keep rubbing it in for those of us who can't come! :cry:

Great idea and product Marteen! :idea:

You are all very going to have a wonderful time! :!:

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Re: Barcelona Celebration 20-09-2009

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IrishMar wrote:Hi Maarten, I always thought Mary's idea was great, would love to participate in this as if we had them for the New York Beacon event, I would have met many more people. Thank you in advance.

Marie
Maarten ... great idea .. I will attend the concert on20th but not sure about lunch on 21st as it will be my only full day in Barcelona ... looking forward to seeing so many people and singing happy birthday too ! Will send a pm with details in a couple of days when I am back on the real computer

cheers

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What a stupendous name tag Maarten! This in itself will make for a wonderful collectible piece of memorabilia. How incredibly kind of you to offer to make them. (And I was going to bring only plain labels just in case :roll: :oops: :lol: .) Thank you so much. Hope everyone gets on board with this (as someone mentioned in another post) 'so american' :lol: idea.

Warmest regards,
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Hi Mary

Delighted to see that you are going to Barcelona, looking forward to meeting you, this time!!

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Hi Marie,

Hopefully I'll be wearing a name tag this time so that we can finally connect :D .

Warmest regards,
Mary

(P.S. Can you tell me if you will be spending the night at a hotel and if so which one, 'cause I'm still searching)
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Mary, I am going to pm you now
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Hi MaryB-

Anne & I stayed at a similar hostel in Madrid a few years ago and were very happy. Our room has a private bath. I manage a University of Wisconsin facility that is very similar to this concept (after spending most of my life in the commercial hotel business)-all I can tell you is that we truly exceed folks expectations because of the issues that you mention.

Maarten, I love the name tag idea-what a great thought and thank you so much for volunteering to coordinate it-really looking forward to meeting you, too.

All the best,

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Hi Maarten, WOW, your name tag design is great! I also agreed with Mary about having name tags and this just takes it to another level!
Are you ready for us to send you our information?

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Hello everybody,

Hope we're not too late but we would love to come to the birthday lunch celebration on the 21st. Could you please add the two of us to the list (ColinD and Meriel).

We're also planning to attend the concert on the 20th.

Looking forward to seeing you all,
Thanks & best wishes,
Colin & Meriel
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Good idea to have tags in order to recognise ourselves amidst the flood of Cohenites... Here's how the list goes so far:

1, 2, 3 - Liverpoolken (UK), Willy & Wijbe (Holland).
4, 5 - Andrea, Marco (Verona / Berlin)
6, 7, 8 - Mari Paz (Madrid), Josep (Barcelona), FYS Toni (Barcelona)
9 - Chema (Barcelona)
10, 11 - Joe and friend (Ireland)
12 - Dave (Liverpool)
13, 14 - Joe and Anne (Wisconsin)
15, 16 - Meritxell and Rosa(Andorra)
17 - Jorcx (Barcelona)
18, 19, 20 - Jarkko, Eija, Sinikka (Finland)
21 - Henning (Germany)
22 - Maarten (Belgium)
23 - Guadalupe (Lleida)
24, 25 - Confetti and husband (Northern Ireland)
26 - Margaret (Chester - UK)
27 - Vlastik (Vlasta - Prague)
28, 29, 30 - Lluïsa (Barcelona), Judy, Elisabeth (England - France)
31, 32 - Marsha and Sarah (San Francisco)
33, 34 - George and Mary (Columbus, Ohio)
35, 36 - Christel and husband
37, 38 - Tony (Bill's Bar) and friend
39, 40 - Anne and Knut (Norway) and perhaps 41 - Solveig (Norway)
42, 43 - Shiloh & Noelene Noone (South Africa)
44, 45 - Päivi Piha & husband (Finland)
46 - Alberto Manzano
47, 48 - Willy and Wijbe (The Netherlands)
49, 50 - Malcolm and Tina
51 - Paula (Dublin)
52, 53 - Tom & Elisabeth (Norway)
54 - A lady from Germany
55 - Another lady from Barcelona
56, 57 - John & Jean from Southport
58 - mamcglynn09
59 - A friend of Chema from Barcelona
60 - Roman/PanCogito from Denver, Colorado USA
61, 62 - Scott & Helen (UK)
63, 64 - Colin & Meriel
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I hadn't seriously considered travelling to Barcelona until I met so many wonderful people on Hydra in June who are going! Would love to meet some of you again in Barcelona (Willy, Wijbe, Ken, Henning, Paula and of course Jarkko, Eija, Sinnika etc etc)

So now I am hooked and would LOVE to come, and have re-arranged the other thing I was doing that weekend in England, but have no concert ticket (most important thing!), and have not of course booked flight or accommodation. I need to be sure of a ticket first!! Anyone got a decent single ticket to sell??

I have never been to Barcelona, and don't know its layout at all, so have no idea where the concert will be held relative to the centre (which I have gathered from reading this thread is called Las Ramblas.) Have picked up one or two ideas about hotels on this thread too, thank you.

I'll post on the ticket swap thread to try to buy a (good, hopefully) ticket for Lenny on 21st, and will plan to try to book a plane that will arrive in Barcelona around 9 or 10pm on 20th. If I get that far, I will then hope to find reasonable priced accommodation centrally, and where I may be lucky enough to know someone from our 'gang'.

In the meantime, I'm going to Mercedes Benz in Weybridge, UK on July 11th...
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Re: Barcelona Celebration 20-09-2009

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Jorcx,
Nice list so far!
I would like to have all forum names, real names, cities and countries for my name tags.
Please send me your full information folks!

I started a new thread especially for the name tags. Post your full information there or mail me or PM me!

Maarten

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Jorcx,
I am sure that the Wijbe and Willy at 2 and 3 with liverpoolken are the same people as at numbers 47 and 48 :)
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Hi Jorcx,

Please add me to the list. I won't be arriving in Barcelona until early afternoon but may make it in time for dessert! :D

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