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Day Three: Davedon

Posted on Saturday, March 21st, 2009

Dave!It's 1:00am and I've just safely arrived back "home" at my hotel after seven hours of bloggity meet goodness.

This morning I went wandering through some London book shops, which is one of my favorite things to do in the city. Independent book stores are all but disappearing in the US as the mammoth chain stores squeeze them out of business, so it's nice to visit the many bookshops they have here. One of my favorite stores is Stanfords, which specializes in all things travel... from books to maps. I could spend hours (days?) exploring the world among the treasures they sell there.

Fortunately, I was able to resist temptation to buy a second suitcase and go bankrupt at Stanfords, because Lady Penelope and The Dutch Bitch had arrived in London! After a quick stop at my hotel room and some harrowing navigation through the construction (deconstruction) going on throughout the London Underground, we met in Sloan Square at Wine O'Clock...

Lady Penelope's Pinot

Dutchy wonders where her wine went.

After Dave from Undeleterious dropped in for a pint, we were off to Henry J. Beans for London's premiere blogger meet-up: Davedon!

Davedon Lanyard

Once at the restaurant, we were warmly greeted by Bec from Out of My Tree. Then Perry was kind enough to join us even though he was probably sick to death of me after our adventure in Cambridge yesterday.

Ireland ended up playing Wales in the Six Nations Tournament, with their first shot at a Grand Slam in 61 years. This was kind of an important event to one of my long-time blogging friends, Anthony from Anthony McG, who missed dinner so he could watch the match and cheer on his countrymen to a heart-stopping victory. Fortunately, he and his friend Paul joined us for a few victory drinks after the game, because I missed meeting him when he was in my neck of the woods.

I was too busy chatting to take photographs... fortunately, everybody else took a million pictures, so I'll link to them when they're posted. Thanks so very much to everyone who attended... meeting the people behind the blogs is what makes it all worthwhile!

UPDATE: The lovely Lady Penelope has uploaded her photos from the evening to Flickr. Below are a few photos of me from her set. To see the rest, click here...

Davedon: Dave and Penelope
Thanks to Penelope for making the dinner arrangements!

Davedon: Dave and Hello Kitty
Penelope brought me a Hello Kitty dispenser with sweets AND stickers. How cool is that?

Davedon Group
Penelope, Dave2, Dutchy, Perry, Bec, Dave (Anthony and Paul showed up later).

Davedon Bill
Let's see... there's our dinner bill, then it's pretty much just Wine, Wine, Wine, Wine, Wine, Wine, Wine, Wine, Wine,, Wine, Wine, Wine, Cosmopolitan, Cosmopolitan, Cosmopolitan, Cosmopolitan, Cosmopolitan, Cosmopolitan, Cosmopolitan, Cosmopolitan, Cosmopolitan, Cosmopolitan, Cosmopolitan, Cosmopolitan, Cosmopolitan, Cosmopolitan, Cosmopolitan, and a couple beers. Boy, all those Cosmos certainly add up! I wonder who might be responsible for that?

Davedon: Dave Pope
Apparently, Ireland is backing my dream of becoming Pope, because Anthony gave this Irish Pope Hat to me.

Continue on to the Penelope Flickr Davedon Set...

And that's all she wrote.


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Comments

  1. Now I’ve been linked I really should get my blog up and running! Was great to meet everyone last night. Looking forward to the next DaveUK event. 🙂

  2. Crail00 says:

    A fond memory of ours is the four nights (our second honeymoon) that we spent in London at the Strand Palace from where we walked to the theater every night.

    In addition, there was the quaint tradition of ordering drinks before the show and having them waiting for us at intermission.

  3. DutchBitch says:

    Thanks Dave. It was fucking a.w.e.s.o.m.e Just sitting at Heathrow waiting for the flight to board in about an hour and a half… Knackered… but had the best weekend ever!!!

  4. Neil T. says:

    Really sorry I couldn’t be there – in the end I had something else to do that night which was sadly rather less fun, details of which may be blogged soon…

  5. Mad William says:

    I’m always so jealous of your jet set life. Good thing I can live vicariously through your blog.
    It’s almost like I was there.
    Almost.

  6. John says:

    Looks like an awesome trip! Glad you guys had fun. : )

  7. yellojkt says:

    I didn’t get to go book shopping wehn I was in London so I’m very jealous.

  8. Anthony McG says:

    Awesome to finally meet ya Dave. In hindsight we should have headed along earlier and just watched the game in the pub you guys were in.

  9. sizzle says:

    Those are some sweet gifts you got!

  10. DutchBitch says:

    And seriously! Shush about the wine and cosmo’s. That must’ve been the other table… Pffffuuutttt

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