2010 Conference

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Further Belfast details, on behalf of Colin Cobb

Belfast Conference Costings

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Hello

Adam and i are working on the website for registration, but here are some costings figures for the trip which i hope you find quite reasonable.

We will all be booked into the brand new premier hotel at Titanic Quarter.
It is only one mile from the venue and the one mile is actually our Titanic Walking Tour Route. As there is only one main road in and out of the shipyard.

The Hotel deal that we have done as follows:

£60 per room per night (based on 2 sharing)
this includes all you can eat breakfast for two people.

£55 per room per night single suppliment
includes all you can eat breakfast.

Stay a 3rd night is just £29 per room (no breakfast included)

If your on a budjet its you can opt for £50 per night room only no breakfast.




Conference Cost £70 per person.


This includes Saturday & Sunday Lunch and all Snacks, unlimited teas, coffee & Juice, scones, traybakes etc.

Full Conference usage at Seminar One.

Includes Saturday evening meal at the pump-House plus live irish band and Irish Ceilidh. (Beer/wine supplied)

Includes Titanic Boat tour and all walking tour access to all Titanic sites.
includes Citysightseeing tour of belfast, (private tour)

Programmes and pr material, catering staff.

In summary:

Hotel + Conference £130 per person
(based on two people sharing, includes breakfast) 2 nights

Hotel + Conference £180.00 per person
(based on single person not sharing a room includes breakfast) 2 nights


So i highly recommend sharing a room.
Flights to belfast can easliy be obtained for £50 -£70 return.
making this conference £200 and less.

If there is money left in the pot and we get good numbers then there will be a concession paid to those coming by boat who are bringing books over for the book stalls, This i feel is fair to those forced to come by boat ladened with books.

tips for this conference:

1. Book early for flights and boats

2. Share a room

3. Share a car if coming by boat

4. Have a Bloody Good time.

FINALLY PLEASE REGISTER YOUR INTEREST TO COME TO BELFAST TO ME AT:

colin@titanicwalk.com

MANY THANKS

COLIN COBB

[lynn cates]

fright night

Hello Caz. I wish I WERE jesting. I did not need a Halloween mask the other night--I am naturally scary.

Cheers.
LC

[mariab]

To Caz:
I'm afraid you've been exposed to my completely fake British accent combined with my desperate avoidance to sound Yankee plus 2 bottles of wine! (Greek accent is distinctively like Italian/Spanish/Mexican, it's the inability to pronounce “sh“ and “ʤ“ (as in “just“), the English or French “r“, the American "aw", the English short "a" and "o", and the inability to produce nasal pitch. Italians, French, and Germans have great difficulty with the “π“ in "the" or in "theory", while native Spanish speakers and Greeks don't.)

[caz]

But the natural way English comes to me when speaking is Yankee, probably because I practically learned my English from rock music and from the movies, which in Greece (where I grew up) are not dubbed. Actually I think it's a social thing, but when I speak to someone, I'm automatically adjusting to their accent. Not just to avoid being rude, but simply because communication's easier that way.

Come again, Maria? Then one or both of us must have been seriously in our cups at the conf, because I had the greatest trouble grappling with your accent and understanding what you were saying (although to be fair the music was quite loud and I'm a bit mutton).

Not an English nor Yankee note to be heard. It was all Greek to me.

Hi Lynn,

So you have dark, swarthy skin, black hair, penetrating brown eyes and crazy eyebrows? Or were you jesting too?

Love,

Caz
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[mariab]

Possibly it's an Isle of Skye accent.

[Simon Wood]

Hi Maria,

It must be regional. I'm shertain Sean Connery's teeth are the best money can buy.

Regards,

Simon

[mariab]

Yeesh, that'sh exjaactly how Sean Connery shpeaks. I'm pretty sure this is not Edindurgh speak. Is it regional? (Or does he have a problem with his teeth?)

[Simon Wood]

Hi Maria,

Shoorely you can't be sheerius.

Have you never sheen "Hell Drivers" [1957]?

Regards,

Simon

[mariab]

Hello Lynn.
Obviously, you're not talking about Sean Connery. (In a black-and-white movie?) I like Scottish accents very much, if maybe not the extremely rhotic one (“rrrrrrrrrrr“), or (definitely) not at all the way Connery speaks. But I think that for the latter it's mostly that alcohol is involved? And Irish English sounds to me quite a bit like the Brooklyn accent.
I can do accents, as most musicians can anyway. (It's in the ear.) But the natural way English comes to me when speaking is Yankee, probably because I practically learned my English from rock music and from the movies, which in Greece (where I grew up) are not dubbed. Actually I think it's a social thing, but when I speak to someone, I'm automatically adjusting to their accent. Not just to avoid being rude, but simply because communication's easier that way.

[lynn cates]

accents

Hello Maria. Conversely, most Brits can speak nearly flawless Yank. I have an old b/w film with an actor who is obviously Scottish. (Like me, he has the dark, swarthy skin, black hair, penetrating brown eyes, crazy eyebrows, and so on.) He doesn't give himself away--at least, not until he slips one and says "convairt." I looked him up. Och, a Scotsman right enoof!

But for that one lapse, he does Yank perfectly, having mastered the high nasal pitch, short "a's," "o's' sounding like "aw" and so on.

But, of course, I love ALL accents and should be quite sorry if they disappeared.

Cheers.
LC

[mariab]

Thanks, AmmanValleyJack.
I know, Maurice! I guess I'm too Yankee for really understanding the Brits. Sometimes I can hardly understand the accents. And vice versa. I really have to work it to keep up a (totally fake) British accent when in England. But somehow I could never speak in my natural (Yankee) accent when there, it sounds like a total sacrilege somehow.
But I think the British are totally cool: bol*ocks, sh*g, k*ickers, ninny, Nancy boy. I like! (Plus there are Shakespearean pentameters.)

[The Grave Maurice]

It's not always easy to understand the Brits' lingo, Maria; but it seems as though Kate is saying that there is a boy named Kym who looks exactly like her.

[AmmanValleyJack]

a school class in high school. although they kept kicking off in ourschool cos we called them Forms when apparently your supposed to say Year. whatever. anyway, Kym? unlucky mate

[mariab]

Kate,
what's a form?

[KatBradshaw]

There is a boy called Kym in my form.