On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Gavin Baker <gavin@gavinbaker.com> wrote:

FYI, I went to the EU embassies open house last year: the more popular
embassies had long lines. (The more accessible embassies are more popular,
as are the embassies with better events, e.g. free food.)

Agree. The morning tends to be better, but the embassies can and will be busy.

I did Passport DC last year, and there was no line for the embassies near Van Ness (e.g. Bangladesh, Pakistan, Bahrain, Nigeria) and the Naval Observatory (well, there was a short line for the Embassy of Iraq) and Georgetown (Thai and Ukraine).

The ones around Dupont looked very busy though (e.g. Japan).

 

So don't count
on getting into some embassies without a considerable wait.

That's okay, I guess. We won't move as fast.
 

Also, photos
you take may include long lines of people in the shots.

Whatever we get is okay, but without long lines of people is obviously better. Getting photos inside the embassies would be cool too.

Photos are great but the event is not about visiting the most embassies / photos but enjoying them.

Cheers,
Katie

 

On Tue, May 3, 2011 2:13 pm, aude wrote:
> Saturday is open house day at the European embassies in DC!  Who all is
> interested in doing some pre-meetup touring of the embassies?
>
> Depending on the interest, we could:
>
> 1) meet at Dupont Circle in the morning (9:45-10am) and tour 15 embassies
> along and around Embassy Row, all together as a single group.
>
> 2) we could organize it into a Wikis Take the Embassies sort of thing,
> split
> up into groups and cover more embassies with us going around getting
> photos,
> including the interior of the embassies and the outside (some embassy
> articles can use better photos, some don't have any!).  One group could
> cover Embassy Row and the other group cover the embassies in/around
> Georgetown (Spain, Sweden, France, Germany)
>
> 3) if time allows or we want a third group, we could hit some of the
> embassies (Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic) near Van
> Ness/Tenleytown in the afternoon before the meetup.
>
> Wiki Takes ___ events are sometimes competitive, and we could to that, but
> not necessary and I'm in favor of it being non-competitive.
>
> Here is more info:
>
> http://europe-in-dc.com
>
> http://www.eurunion.org/eu/images/stories/2011ophsebrochure-map.pdf
>
> I'm adding a signup place on our meetup page for these.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC_17
>
> (oh, and Wikis Take the Embassies Part II could be the following weekend,
> May 14, when the non-EU embassies do their open house. Any interest?)
>
> Cheers,
> Katie

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