HEIDELBERG MEETUP!!!

Ok, so I'm depressed by there being so many people in London who are gonna meet up, so I figured I'd try to organize my own. Obviously, I'm not talking about only people from heidelberg (as that would be... well, me and maybe 5 people I already know because I brought them to this site), but more for... well, anybody who can make it. The North of france is maybe 2 hours away, and there are some big German cities near here (for everybody who's looking for Heidelberg on a map: it's about 100 km south of Frankfurt). Maybe some other people (from the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria etc) could make it too.
I figured maybe a weekend would be better, as many people wouldn't be able to make it for a day. Obviously, my mom would have a heart attack if I proposed to let everybody stay over here, but there's a cheap youth hostel here, or if you don't like those there are more hotels than you can count here.
Let me know if you're interested, and I'll try to find a date and make youth hostel/hotel reservations for everyone who wants me to.
Angie

Edit: And Italians. Italians would be fun 😉

Only A-people, or are more begin letters and numerals welcome?

Originally posted by Aiko
Only A-people, or are more begin letters and numerals welcome?

I strongly, STRONGLY recommend anyone who hasn't been to Germany to go to Heidelberg. It's the perfect intro to the country, with the town along the river Neckar, the ruined castle overlooking one side of the river and the Philosophenweg on the other. Good walks, good forest scenery, good nightlife (it's a university town). The Allies liked it so much that they sent leaflets into the town during WWII saying so, and wanting to come here after the war was over. I think the US still has a base close by.

Any places where you can play OTB chess in the parks?

I just returned from the maas-ruhr chess tournament where I played against belgians and germans. Maybe its a good idee to arrange a simulair tournament for rhp members. I live half an hour from aachen and equaly close to belgium.

Originally posted by DOlivier2004
I strongly, STRONGLY recommend anyone who hasn't been to Germany to go to Heidelberg. It's the perfect intro to the country, with the town along the river Neckar, the ruined castle overlooking one side of the river and the Philosophenweg on the other. Good walks, good forest scenery, good nightlife (it's a university town). The Allies liked it so ...[text shortened]... think the US still has a base close by.

Any places where you can play OTB chess in the parks?

It depends on the weekend and how cheap I can get a flight to Frankfurt from London (whilst holding down a full-time job...)

Call me in (oops, depending on the exact date, since there is a life beyod (rhp [I hear allready the mob shouting: a heretic, a heretic! <i>the ashes of the autodafe being blown away by the wind...</i>

I'm hoping to meet a friend in gehermersheim in next few months which not too far away.

I might give ye a buzz when i head to germany anyways

Originally posted by villa68
I'm hoping to meet a friend in gehermersheim in next few months which not too far away.

I might give ye a buzz when i head to germany anyways

Originally posted by DOlivier2004
It depends on the weekend and how cheap I can get a flight to Frankfurt from London (whilst holding down a full-time job...)

Originally posted by DOlivier2004
I strongly, STRONGLY recommend anyone who hasn't been to Germany to go to Heidelberg. It's the perfect intro to the country, with the town along the river Neckar, the ruined castle overlooking one side of the river and the Philosophenweg on the other. Good walks, good forest scenery, good nightlife (it's a university town). The Allies liked it so ...[text shortened]... think the US still has a base close by.

Any places where you can play OTB chess in the parks?

Originally posted by The Slow Pawn
About £100 return - Try Air Berlin (they are quite decent)

Trains are cool!
And they don't crash down.

will there be a meeting?