Frantours and Railtours have rail and hotel deals right now that are worth checking out, for any of you who are thinking of coming to Paris and have not made reservations yet.

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia

We're just taking Saturday night in Paris. Hopefully the Eurostar will behave and drop us off at Gare du Nord at 11h30 on Saturday morning... No hotel yet...

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

Here once more the Hotel I booked at, though the available rates seem to have doubled since I booked my room.

Hotel Auteuil Tour Eiffel

It will work great for us, We have to be in Germany the weekend before, so we will have our annual week of holidays. Somewhere between baptism and Jerome....

I'll know for sure if I'm coming in the upcoming week or so (there is a super ultra damn good chance I'll come).

Though apparently, as the list suggests I'll be coming with my clone.

I'd love to come, but I have so many outgoings at the moment I don't think I can justify spending the cash. I'll have to see.

keep to the Fen Causeway

I notice the price list of the Hotel Passy Home is dated 2002. Is this one of those timelessly quaint little inns?

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

I would like to attend if I can rearrange my schedule.
How do I sign up?
LEP

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

Wow, you're actually meeting! I thought the blogosphere was somehow detached from real life, but then I've only been reading blogs since 2 weeks ago. Have you met before?

Consider me "with you in spirit" since there's almost zero chance that I'd be able to make it.

At my family gatherings when I was growing up, we used to take a group photo, with some family members holding photos of other family members who couldn't make it.  Y'all could do the modern version and just Photoshop the rest of us in....

I'll know for sure soon. Have a sysadmin conference at the same time which I perhaps will attend and perhaps not. Depends. But I would really rather go to Paris..

You have a normal feeling for a moment, then it passes. --More--

I haven't participated to much in this blog.. but since i read it before libe.fr i feel as though i should drop by...

Rien n'est gratuit en ce bas monde. Tout s'expie, le bien comme le mal, se paie tot ou tard. Le bien c'est beaucoup plus cher, forcement. Celine

I'm still planning on being there.  I'll have the American accent and a Canadian flag pin on my purse trying to act as if I am Canadian. Eh.

I am most unhappy my country is not a good World Citizen.  

I guess I need to work on the hotel next.

Wow...I am jealous. I of course am on the other side of the world and can not attend. On the other hand I am grateful to Internet that I have so many "friends" (and enemies too , ha-ha) all over the world that I don't know personally ( and probably will never have chance to meet  face to face).Interestingly  I spend so much time "talking" to all of you.
9 years ago I used to be a member of the (Serbian) group that had similar thing going for years...I haven't heard of blogs at the time but we tried to make comfortable forum where we can discus ( mostly) Serbian politic. Boy, we had a hard time doing it and after many attempts when it looked almost like a success I just gave up...on Serbian politic and discussion about politic in general. But Iraq war brought me back. I was trying to find people that may see it the way I do and thank God I found Daily Kos and folowed Billmon to MOA and here too. I am getting old and tired and I wish I could give up on it all but I am frustrated and frightened for the future of my children and grandchildren. Otherwise I would buy a property somewhere very far from civilization with no electricity or TV or anything and would finally become nonmaterial "hippy" as I wished when I was young (ha-ha).
About Serbian group of discussants. They lived around the Globe (Canada, USA, Australia, Holland, Germany...you name it and Serbia of course). Most of them were a little bit younger then me (as it is a case here too). They met few times in Belgrade. I never was able (or willing) to go and I met few of them here in Brisbane when they came to visit. Those I met were not exactly what I expected, they were much better in any sense. One even was the "enemy" and we went along so great.
On the other hand those who met in Belgrade (few times) had much more chance to screw things up. Some of them even married each other (and divorced and married another group member, ha-ha), some just divorced (after 20 years of marriage and children) in a hope that they found right person and (relationship) never materialized ...Dreams ( imagination) are very dangerous. So watch it, ha-ha! Some became bitter enemies, some real true friends that see each other regularly...Few of them died...some really young...Life goes on...
I wish you all the best in Paris and hope you'll have a great time together!


Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind...Albert Einstein

What would you say if all the students from the American University in Bulgaria decided to join the meeting;-)?

Or maybe the ones who get the best grades in the gradinski chai's course get a trip to Paris from their professor as a reward for their brilliant performance;-)?

I can resist anything but temptation.- Oscar Wilde

So, what about tyhe logistics of the meetup?

Are we going to have name tags saying "Hello I am <login>"?

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

I will try to wear my Kos tee shirt and jeans or shorts with that canadian flag pin.

I have friends who have been saying they are Canadian when they travel every since Bu$h invaded Iraq.