[Heeplist] There's gonna be a Heepvention in Belgium

[Bob Winward]

When you stay in hotels in the USA you get spoiled with all the room.  The
one in Spain was small, and in 2003 I stayed in a closet in London called
Sussex Gardens.


On 10/25/13 2:51 PM, "Staf Pypen" <staf.p at skynet.be> wrote:

> I'm not sure yet about the rooms Bob, they are usual hotel rooms i guess, i
> am going to have a first talk with a couple of hotel managers next week.
> I am excited actualy ;-). Meanwhile i'll be looking around for a coupe of
> venues in the city. Still it's a long way to go, but i got almost two years
> also.
> 
> 
> Staf
> 
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> From: Bob Winward
> Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 12:59 PM
> To: Heepsters Mailing List (Travellers in Time)
> Subject: Re: [Heeplist] There's gonna be a Heepvention in Belgium
> 
> Hi Staf, you did meet Susan in London 2003.  That was the show at the
> Astoria where on the Marque outside it said Uriah Heep underneath "Gay
> Britney Night"
> 
> This time, I will not make the same mistake of waiting too long for a hotel
> room. I ended up in Spain without one.  Are the rooms as tiny as the ones in
> London?
> 
> Stela sounds good, but I really like Hoegarden.
> 
> 
> On 10/24/13 3:24 PM, "Staf Pypen" <staf.p at skynet.be> wrote:
> 
>> Hey Bob, it would be great to have you buddy.
>> I have a good idea where to go to with the Heepvention, to the town where
>> they make the Stella Artois, Leuven. I have also looked up three or even
>> four hotels close to eachother and not far from the city center, walking
>> distance. So, that's an idea i will be working on the next days or weeks.
>> If i got more news and specific information, i will surely let you all
>> know
>> how to find that info and also book a room from the special website maybe.
>> Just tell Susan her and I have to meet ;-)
>> 
>> Gotta get working on it ;-)
>> 
>> Staf
>> 
>> 
>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>> From: Bob Winward
>> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 1:16 PM
>> To: Heepsters Mailing List (Travellers in Time)
>> Subject: Re: [Heeplist] There's gonna be a Heepvention in Belgium
>> 
>> If you do it in August, I can make that.  My wife Susan is still railing
>> me
>> for not bringing her to Spain in 2008.  I know Belgium sounds like a place
>> she would enjoy, however I guess I better tell her that an hv is going to
>> be
>> there.
>> 
>> Have you selected a venue yet?  If not or when you do, the key will be
>> access from hotels.  I remember when Heep came to Trenton NJ in 2002, I
>> rode
>> up and down the highways and wrote down every hotel within radius, then
>> looked up their prices and posted links to the sites.  Some found that
>> helpful.
>> 
>> 
>> On 10/23/13 5:50 PM, "Staf Pypen" <staf.p at skynet.be> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> here's my final decision on the Heepvention subject.
>>> 
>>> I am accepting the chalenge, i am all prepared to start organising a
>>> wonderful event here in the land of the best beer, the land of the best
>>> chocolate, the land of the real fries, Belgium.
>>> So, put your dollars in a jar on a daily basis already. This event will
>>> bring something old and something new together for sure.
>>> Some input from Alan Keetley, from Lars O. Nonstad and from David
>>> Amendolara
>>> and some others outside the Heeplist, will make this a very special
>>> event.
>>> You are warned, if you don't attend, you are so terribly wrong. Easy for
>>> me
>>> to say? Yes of course, i know ;-).
>>> 
>>> But i know in my heart, those who have been on a Heepvention before, know
>>> that it is always something special, meeting up with Heepsters from
>>> around
>>> the world. Playing music together, meet the bandmembers of the past. They
>>> all love their fans and so they love to come and mingle.
>>> 
>>> For the moment i am aiming on early august 2015, so that's more than a
>>> year
>>> from now.
>>> 
>>> Some people offered me to help with website and facebook profile,
>>> t-shirts,
>>> names and numbers, thanks guys, you know who you are.
>>> 
>>> So, all i ask of you all, if you have nothing else planned for august
>>> 2015,
>>> don't plan anything but a travel to that little country next to England
>>> and
>>> Germany, under Holland and above France (for those who seem to have
>>> problems
>>> situating my country).
>>> I remember someone here asked me from where i was when i entered the
>>> Heeplist, saying "Aah Belgium, the town above Paris". Come and convince
>>> yourself that this is a very nice country, with the best taste in alot of
>>> things.
>>> 
>>> Hope to be able to have more information very soon, hope to see alot, if
>>> not
>>> all, of you.
>>> 
>>> Staf
>>> 
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