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What I Did On My Holidays, pt 1
Apr. 3rd, 2008 04:19 amEastercon
There are pros and cons to contracting. The money isn’t as regular as one might ideally wish, but there’s rather more of it coming in of late – sufficient to, for example, stay at the Eastercon main hotel even when it’s in the same city as the one in which you live.
Well, nominally; to be strict, chez moi is in Surrey, about half way between central London and central Croydon, whereas Heathrow is nearly twice as far out in the now-nonexistent county of Middlesex. It’s a fair hike from me to there – at best, about 90min on the Tube and then another £4 and up to an hour by shuttle bus from the airport to the Radisson Edwardian. I know this, because on Thursday, although I wasn't staying, I decided to pop over to the con for the evening, to see early birds such as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
suaveswede and danacea. Nice plan, anyway. Left at about 7:30pm. Heathrow by 9. Radisson at 10. Left about 11:30. Home at 2:00am.
Still, it was a pleasant evening, or at least, the bit of it I spent there was.
( Beyond lies the wibble… )
There are pros and cons to contracting. The money isn’t as regular as one might ideally wish, but there’s rather more of it coming in of late – sufficient to, for example, stay at the Eastercon main hotel even when it’s in the same city as the one in which you live.
Well, nominally; to be strict, chez moi is in Surrey, about half way between central London and central Croydon, whereas Heathrow is nearly twice as far out in the now-nonexistent county of Middlesex. It’s a fair hike from me to there – at best, about 90min on the Tube and then another £4 and up to an hour by shuttle bus from the airport to the Radisson Edwardian. I know this, because on Thursday, although I wasn't staying, I decided to pop over to the con for the evening, to see early birds such as
suaveswede and danacea. Nice plan, anyway. Left at about 7:30pm. Heathrow by 9. Radisson at 10. Left about 11:30. Home at 2:00am. Still, it was a pleasant evening, or at least, the bit of it I spent there was.
( Beyond lies the wibble… )
