[Heeplist] There's gonna be a Heepvention in Belgium
Pete Wharton
heeplistpete at ntlworld.com
Sun Oct 27 08:12:07 EDT 2013
Now a cynical person might say that was because some Americans are way
larger than many others :-)
Pete
-----Original Message-----
From: Heeplist [mailto:heeplist-bounces at travellersintime.com] On Behalf Of
Bob Winward
Sent: 26 October 2013 14:53
To: Heepsters Mailing List (Travellers in Time)
Subject: Re: [Heeplist] There's gonna be a Heepvention in Belgium
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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