Random babble by Paulh

Well I still haven’t fully recovered from this weekends in SEO meeting in Manchester.

Arrived in Manchester, from Malaga on Friday afternoon with Faye from casino.com, was her first SEO event and I have a sneaky feeling she was expecting it to be quite boring and full of geeks, although she denies this

Arrived at the Britannia hotel in the centre of Manchester around 5ish, bumped into 4eyes, DaveN, Serious, and NFFC in the reception. Was looking like this would be good event!

Came down to the hotel bar after checking a few emails, and started to introduce Faye to people and enjoy the cheap beer prices in happy hour. Then made our way to the restaurant. Managed to squeeze a seat between the 2 ex-party gaming guys, Mike and Rob, while Faye squeezed herself between JasonD and BroadProspect. Food was great, and much wine and beer was drunk. Was really good to meet mike and rob, very funny sound guys. Got back to the hotel, had a few more drinks and staggered to bed about 1am – shockingly early but I had an hours jet lag and had been traveling all day.

Saturday, I stayed in bed for as long as I could, until Faye phoned wanting to go for breakfast, so off we trotted to the nearest pub and had a few beers(shandies) with an English breakfast. Met up with some others, who soon started spilling food down themselves so me and faye decided to escape to the Manchester wheel, and then another pub.

Met up for lunch with everyone else at yet another pub. Then back to the hotel, quick nap, and then off to another restaurant for more beer and food. By the time I got back to the hotel I was knackerd, could not drink anymore so sneaked off to my room at 12ish.

Was great to meet with friends, and meet so many new faces. Just wish I was better at getting round to chatting with everyone. Made some new contacts, met some very bright people, took some incriminating photos for future blackmail, and also met the competition and stole their ideas.

Some photos