Re: Gen Con UK 2007 - Dates and Venue Announced

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:56:40 +0000 (UTC), Roger Burton West
<roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Reading seems to me to offer the non-centrality disadvantage of London
without such good transport links.

I don't know; it's not too bad from London (the one time I made it to
Games Fair there was a train strike, so I caught a bus from Waterloo -
and discovered that it stopped right outside the venue after an hour
or two's travel), and should let people from the West Country and the
west Midlands find their way fairly easily without having to go into
London and out again.

Not so great for the Scots and north-east, of course, but I can think
of far worse options...

... And
at least it's not a holiday camp in the middle of nowhere.

Exactly.

Anyway, I'm not sure why people are so bloody hung up on transport
convenience. If gamers can travel from all round the country to
weekend conventions in Edinburgh, Cambridge, and Cornwall, a multi-day
event in Reading should hardly be controversial.

--
Phil Masters
* http://www.philm.demon.co.uk/ *
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