In Copenhagen I joined a bloggers dinner and learned about BarCamp through bloggers and in Prague I made a couple of Danish friends that I found through their blogs. I also met Empty Nested Karen and Minnesotan Al in Prague.

I’m trying to do the same in London but in London everything is so much bigger which is both good and bad. Good because you can find literally everything and all sorts of people, groups and activities. Bad because it easily becomes overwhelming and places and people are far apart. Nevertheless I’ve embarked on the London blogosphere and twittersphere.

Ann and I went to the Christmas gathering of a group called London Bloggers Meetup (#LBM) that organizes a monthly event for people who blog to meetup and chat.

The group was started two years ago by Andy and has gone from having a handful participants to having upwards of 100 now with the events getting booked out days or weeks before they take place. Here Andy is presenting one of the nights three speakers.

First speaker was a security expert from Symantec (who sponsored the bar tab), then followed one of the girls of Domestic Sluttery (they brought cookies!) talked about tips for bloggers and last was Arvind talking about Kiva – a microfinance project.

A great night and I got round to speak to a couple of bloggers like Jorgen, The Undercover Recruiter and Too Geeky Chris (and a couple I forgot, ups).

A few weeks later I went to West Hampstead a neighborhood 30 min walk away from here. There is an active and growing online community in West Hampstead that mainly engage on Twitter. Jonathan is the man behind the blog West Hampstead Life and he is also very active on Twitter where he has been the anchorman for a lot of events. I went to a meetup called a #WHampGather at Alice House a very cool pub/restaurant.

There were loads of people who turned up for the event, our corner was completely packed and the group was very divers. Again I met a lot of interesting people and had a good evening.

At both events there were prizes and gifts so from the bloggers meetup I came away with a copy of Symantics new anti virus program and the day after I won a lampshade and from the twitter event I won a cool Dot To Date calendar.

• Home in prague. Finally5:30 PM Aug 23rd, 2007
• Its 2 am in warsaw – dont really know what time my brain think it is. We hope to get on a train at 7am so another 5 to go. Out drinking…2:07 AM Aug 23rd, 2007
• In warsaw now after going through LA and paris. Last leg of the trip is a train to prague. Luggage still in paris – that sucks!10:08 PM Aug 22nd, 2007
• Our trip is over and we are on the way back to prague. The total travel time will probably be 40 hours. Damn. We’ve reached LA so far.3:10 AM Aug 22nd, 2007
• Yesterday we went to Volcanoes National Park and saw how the Big Island is still growing as the lava continues to pour out.8:20 PM Aug 18th, 2007
• We made it to Big Island picked up a car and have just arrived at our camp ground.6:54 AM Aug 16th, 2007
• Just got up. Its raining this morning. We are on our way to the Big Island today.7:14 PM Aug 15th, 2007
• Category 2 hurricane flossie is heading to hawaii. Most likely it will stay 50 miles off so we should be safe.10:56 AM Aug 15th, 2007
• Sunset beach all day. Chilled. Got drunk. Swam. Chilled. Life’s good.7:16 AM Aug 15th, 2007
• Yesterday ivan arrived from minneapolis. Good to see him and now we are five 7:46 AM Aug 14th, 2007
• Kalalua beach is a paradise. A big beach, camping in the shade of trees and a waterfall for fresh water and shover. Mountains surround t …7:29 AM Aug 14th, 2007
• The hike was awesome. Hard but awesome. After 11 miles of walking up and down valleys along the shore we came to the kalalua beach.7:19 AM Aug 14th, 2007
• Back on oahu after four days on kauai hiking. Gotta sleep10:55 AM Aug 13th, 2007
• Found an Internet cafe today – lovely!2:08 AM Aug 10th, 2007
• Went to pearl harbour today to see the Arizona battleship. The ship got a direct hit and sunk with more than 1100 of its sailors7:02 AM Aug 9th, 2007
• Went to kaulai today and rented sea kayaks. Sailed not to some islands. Nice day.10:07 AM Aug 8th, 2007
• Spend the day yesterday at waikiki beach. Beautiful place.8:04 PM Aug 7th, 2007
• I bought a new camera today. Its another canon – those guys seems to work for me. Look out for pictures when i get online (that could be …6:42 AM Aug 6th, 2007
• Yesterday we went to waimea beach on the north shore of Oahu. During winter this is one of the best surfing spots oh the world.5:13 AM Aug 6th, 2007
• Today has been chilled. We went into chinatown for breakfast and went to the market to get some fish and seafood for tonight.4:49 AM Aug 6th, 2007
• Jetlag got me us at 5.30. After breakfast we took a trip around oahu and ended up at a beach were we hung out the rest of the day.8:54 AM Aug 5th, 2007
• Finally we got out of the airport. Of course our suit cases was not there. But fuck that we are hitting the bars now B-)10:20 AM Aug 4th, 2007
• After 24 hours, 11 time zones and maybe 2600 miles we are in hawaii. Aloha!8:37 AM Aug 4th, 2007
• Oh Its great to be back in US. We are still only in seattle airport but still its great to be back in The Land Of The Free.1:33 AM Aug 4th, 2007
• Chasing the sun around the world. Left paris at 13 in seattle at 15. Hope they got good coffee here12:02 AM Aug 4th, 2007
• Oui oui we are in paris. Airport food is robbery.12:00 PM Aug 3rd, 2007
• Two days ago was the anniversary of the warsaw rising. The citizen stood up and fought the nazis. Intersting history6:41 AM Aug 3rd, 2007
• Yesterday gosja gave us a tour of the town. First on foot and them driving at night. The city grew on me. Like to check it out again.6:39 AM Aug 3rd, 2007
• I meet gosja a couple of weeks ago on the canoe trip. She is a graphical designer studying tv production.6:33 AM Aug 3rd, 2007
• Rise and shine. Its 4.30. After a couple of hours sleep we are back up ready for the big travel day.4:37 AM Aug 3rd, 2007
• Cruzing warsaw. Cool place but not much different vibe than prague/cntr europe.10:18 PM Aug 2nd, 2007
• We are staying im warsaw for the night. Flighing out tomorrow at 7 5:27 PM Aug 2nd, 2007
• We arrived im Warsaw. Gosja picked us up from the station and we are on the way to her place.5:19 PM Aug 2nd, 2007
• Hunter s. Thompson: The Rum Diary is my literature for the ride as we cross the border to poland1:21 PM Aug 2nd, 2007
• Yesterday i went with the IAESTE gang. A couple of them are leaving prague and will not be there when i get back. Goodbyes are always a  8:37 AM Aug 2nd, 2007
• First leg of the travel is from Prague, Czech Republic to Warsaw, Poland. An 8½ hour train ride.6:40 AM Aug 2nd, 2007
• The bags are packed. Tomorrow (Thursday) morning at 8 we are taking the train to Warsaw and the day after (Friday) we jump on the plane.11:36 PM Aug 1st, 2007
• Hawaii is approaching way too fast. I’m not ready! Leaving for Warsaw in 30 hours!12:44 AM Aug 1st, 2007