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Re: Irish roll call for BLOC

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 6:13 pm
by junction
couple of chalets booked and meeting a load over there. flying out lunchtime thursday from dublin. good times ahead!

Re: Irish roll call for BLOC

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 6:53 pm
by cathalorourke
12.40 Ryanir flight to Bristol by any chance ? :lol:

Re: Irish roll call for BLOC

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:11 pm
by pixieskimo
Around 10 of us heading.... From all over the place. Can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: Irish roll call for BLOC

Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:07 am
by fergadeth
haha not sure how many of our lot will wanna watch rugby to be honest.. especially if there is raving to be done :)

Re: Irish roll call for BLOC

Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:38 pm
by junction
cathalorourke wrote:12.40 Ryanir flight to Bristol by any chance ? :lol:

yep thats the one. perfect flight to arrive, get supplies and take full advantage of the thursday night.

Re: Irish roll call for BLOC

Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 12:29 am
by risk49
2 more from SW Kerry. Driving over via Rosslare on the Thursday. Quite a trek!! Be worth it tho. Any people gonna be on the ferry 08:45?

Re: Irish roll call for BLOC

Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 1:45 pm
by cathalorourke
@junction - see you there ! 3 of us on that flight, renting a car and heading for minehead then !

Less than 3 weeks now ! 8)

Re: Irish roll call for BLOC

Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 10:55 pm
by chas
Yup, me and 2 of my mates will be over.

See yiz there lads and ladies.

Re: Irish roll call for BLOC

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 2:33 pm
by lisaslag
Five of us coming from Galway and meeting up with more heads over there. And know of PLENTY more Irish heads. All arriving at different times and stuff but should be all there come friday afternoon! Woop!!

Re: Irish roll call for BLOC

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:44 pm
by antics
There are 700 - 800 Irish people attending BLOC 2011.

For a "foreign" based festival this is a pretty darn impressive stat considering there is only a 5000 capacity at the venue.

Re: Irish roll call for BLOC

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 4:45 pm
by xdeletiax
galway-dublin airport= 3 hours
dublin-bristol= 2 hours
bristol- bloc= 3 hours

so worth it though. cant fucking wait!

Re: Irish roll call for BLOC

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 5:33 pm
by cathalorourke
@antics - is that just the people travelling from ireland ? as in, it doesn't include irish people living in the UK ? Just wondering . . .

@xdeletiax - Bristol to BLOC 3 hours ? is that by car ? i thought it was only an hour and a half ?

Re: Irish roll call for BLOC

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 5:58 pm
by antics
cathalorourke wrote:@antics - is that just the people travelling from ireland ? as in, it doesn't include irish people living in the UK ? Just wondering . . .

@xdeletiax - Bristol to BLOC 3 hours ? is that by car ? i thought it was only an hour and a half ?
thats people coming from Ireland alone. 2 planes have been filled not to mention people travelling by ferry also.

@xdeletiax - Bloc to Bristol is only 1.15 mins by car.

Re: Irish roll call for BLOC

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 6:08 pm
by cathalorourke
Well sure you could probably bump up the number of irish so !

Lots of ex-pats inna UK !

Re: Irish roll call for BLOC

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 6:44 pm
by xdeletiax
antics wrote:
cathalorourke wrote:@antics - is that just the people travelling from ireland ? as in, it doesn't include irish people living in the UK ? Just wondering . . .

@xdeletiax - Bristol to BLOC 3 hours ? is that by car ? i thought it was only an hour and a half ?
thats people coming from Ireland alone. 2 planes have been filled not to mention people travelling by ferry also.

@xdeletiax - Bloc to Bristol is only 1.15 mins by car.
is it? on the bus it felt like hours and hours...