[F] Utrecht Sudden Mini (Unofficial) Meet Report
Edition 8/4/2002. The Cast, in random order: Martin, Sand, Sanity. This was not a proper meet, because it hadn't been APFAnnounced. But we met.
It all started with a Sand visting a Martin [1] in Cloggieland, which came up on #afp on a Sunday evening. They were tempted by me to visit the beautiful Utrecht, which I had to visit on Monday anyway due to two lectures - one in the morning and one in the late afternoon. The temtping was succesful, and my first AFPmeet happened between the two lectures...
The meeting happened at Utrecht Central Station at the meeting point. At nearly exactly 12 o'clock, I spotted a Beard. It soon appeared a Martin was indeed attached to it, and a Sandriana was not far away. We decided [2] to have a coffee at the Oude Gracht first. It was a nice spot, the coffee was good, but for food purposes it wasn't really the right spot. We walked along the Oude Gracht, occasionaly groaning at Bad Puns from Martin. The City of Utrecht had catered for various distractions, such as Book Shops, Cooking Stuff Shops and another Cafe where we had lunch, again in the sun, not uncommon in this country.
More bad puns were exchanged over the fried eggs, onion soup (with slight delay - there was no spoon) and cheese. It has also become clear that I might possibly have geeky inclinations (but, IANAG!). Martin and Sand did their best to brainwash me, so I would go to a .uk meet. Which was rather succesfull ;-). Of course, I'll have to survive Arwen's cooking meet first, of which I am a lot less sure after seeying Martin's Evil Grin...
After lunch, we set forth in the general direction of the Dom Tower, a church tower of over 110m high which got separated from the church by a storm in 1672. Next to that church there was a cute ickle garden which belongs to the church. By that time, I had to return to University Life so we walked back to the train station. We hugged goodbye, and my first ever AFPmeet was over. It had lasted nearly three hours, but seemed like a life-time <fx: violin music>
The Photographic Evidence
 <sanity>No, that other button Martin! <sand>What photo? |
 Sand and Sanity, proudly visiting Utrecht |
 Martin and Sand (WARNING: Adult Content! Have Bucket Ready ;-) ) |
[1] All characters are real. Despite privacy issues, no names have been changed.
[2] Well, I said where we would go and they followed me, as I was the relative Utrecht Expert. But it sounds more democratic this way.