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

Sun Oct 27 09:06:58 EDT 2013

Woehaha, you are onto something there Pete ;-)

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From: Pete Wharton 
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2013 1:12 PM 
To: 'Heepsters Mailing List (Travellers in Time)' 
Subject: Re: [Heeplist] There's gonna be a Heepvention in Belgium 

Now a cynical person might say that was because some Americans are way
larger than many others :-)

Pete

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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
> 
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> 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
>> 
>> 
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>> 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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