EUROMEET 2014, preliminary discussions

How about a list of the countries that have been visited in the last five years and then agreeing to go somewhere else? As I recall it's:

Berlin, Germany
Florence, Italy
Hackney/London, England
Istanbul, Turkey
Prague, Czech Republic

Also, if you're including Algeria as a potential destination in North Africa what about including Tunisia too, or is it more dangerous?
 
David Hughes said:
HI,

FWIW, I'd prefer somewhere like Koln because it's on the rail network and easy for us in the UK or Ireland. Plus all the aggro of flying gets me down: or rather all the aggro before you actually and then after flying.

Regards, David

PS Sorry about the umlaut, it crashes my browser...
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Seconded. Arles again!

Cheers,

R.
 
One night in Arles, and getting there from anywhere in Europe, costs probably as much as flying to, and spending a whole week with accomodation, in the Mahreb. Photographically it's much more interesting too, with its street crowds in the medinas and vibrant colors in beautiful low-angled sunlight.
 
jippiejee said:
Why wouldn't europeans meet on some common backyard grounds just outside their doorsteps? Northern Africa is covered by most budget airlines on top of that, and a fun change of the regular flintstones background loop to make urban photography a little more interesting. Yet, still close enough to make a great destination for a european meetup I'd say.
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One advantage for holding a Europe Meeting in Europe is for other RFF members who happen to visit Europe to finally meet RFF members from Europe in Europe.

:D
 
You make it sound like Europe is a single place... when in reality we all need to travel quite a bit whatever the decided outcome.
 
I never said that Europe is one place. No matter where you decide as a group to meet, some will have to do some serious traveling.
 
Exactly. So even some French town might be more expensive to reach and stay at than some place catered by Easyjet/Transavia budget airline.
 
If we go to Arles during the photo festival you better book your hotels now! Apart from that the hotels wil have a 50-100% upmark on their normal prices. I'm in favor of the Baltic states, but the date is more important to me.
 
Any place named so far sounds good to me.

Timing is flexible except for the weekends of 14/15 June and 21/22 June...
 
we should really put the date together asap.
let us drop out also public holidays may31/june1.
anybody else with desired dates?
 
Hi,

We ought to be marking a map where everyone who has posted or read this thread lives, then look at the map and decide.

My UK problem is that all routes have to go through a ferry port or the channel tunnel or worse, some dire airport.

Regards, David
 
Tom :- the holiday weekend mentioned by Janko is the religious weekend of Ascension Day. About half of Europe has that five-day-weekend off work.

Practically speaking, there is a choice between "the first three weeks of May plus first half of June" and "late Summer"?? This comes about because we are a bit late for April now and most family holidays seem to occur during July or August, of course they would generally have priority for most people.

So . . . Spring ??? Or late Summer ???

Locations outside of the EU might be a little far away, in travel time or costs. I have not found the Arles opening week to be expensive (but I do stay in a tent for that) provided that one doesn't try to book the TGV very late. If we are going to be silly, lets go to Kabul - at least it will be safer this year than in 2015 . . .

Later in the year could suit the Northern Baltic locations very well, if we wish to have fine weather. Earlier might be good for more central locations, such as Brussels and/or Antwerp, Bruges etc. Gdansk also looks to have reasonable average weather in May or June. Romania or Hungary can be interesting too. Cheap airlines are useful, as are the train networks and of course self-drive for the people nearest to a location.

If we can find a vague consensus, or top-five, I'll make a poll thing like last time.
 
Vobluda said:
Iceland does sound great but getting there and prices there are crazy.
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Iceland would be: carrying a tripod around, taking photos very early in the morning, need for cars to get to the landscape locations. As a city- and street-photography location Reykjavik is not so interesting.
 
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