London Open (Bike Polo) & Housing

As you may be aware, the London polo community are hosting the London Open in Bethnal Green Gardens from Friday 24th - Sunday 26th August.

We'd love to have all of you come along, sit in the park, drink a beer, and watch some of the best bike polo players in the world (hopefully including the world and european champions), and many lfgss forum members.

But a lot of the players have travelled a long way to get here, from North America, Australia, Japan and all over Europe. We are trying to offer them free housing, but at the moment we haven't managed to house all the teams within the polo community.

If anyone has a free floor/sofa/bed, especially in the East London area (but anywhere is useful), it would really help someone out.

Polo players are great people, and they will be really appreciate it. There is a volunteers beer keg at the Open, which anyone housing can drink from, and in addition you'll make new friends across the world, who'll look after you if you are ever in the area.

So if you are interested, just post here, or pm nesbit or myself.

Thanks, and hopefully see you in a few weeks in Bethnal Green Gardens, regardless if you can help or not.

Awesome, thanks John.

Like John said, this is a great opportunity to help out a bit and gain some new friends along the way as well. London Open looks to be the biggest polo event of the year anywhere in the world this year, it would be a shame to miss it!

If you feel you want to help out with housing, feel free to also email me directly on mark.a@lhbpa.org and I can connect you with a team in need of a roof.

Thanks!

B.U.M.P

I'm a stiff 30 minutes away, but I'll pm you guys.

I may be able to persuade my housemates to have a couple stay? Are they fussy if they sleep on couches/blow up beds :p ?

I'm over in stratford so not bad at all really

Right, how does a dodgy bedsit in Tottenham sound?

Sarf of the river?

Bump! This is a great opportunity for people looking to travel in future, I have been put up in Paris, Brussels, Berlin and Rouen by polo players returning the favour... if you have even a tiny bit of space then please offer it up! (especially in East London, riding miles in a polo gear after a hard days playing can be really unenjoyable)

I may be able to persuade my housemates to have a couple stay? Are they fussy if they sleep on couches/blow up beds :p ?

I'm over in stratford so not bad at all really

PM'd

I'd like to potentially offer a couple of sofa's in a grimey studio in Limehouse. I may be at a Festival with my band so I'll have to see.

Thanks to everyone who've come forward. You should all have had a pm. At the moment I'm just waiting for teams to come back to me with their plans, a lot of them are at various tournaments/time zones, so it's taking a little while. Nonetheless, your support is massively appreciated!

Cheers,
Mark

Hey I can house a couple of peeps for the weekend easy. I'm by victoria park, hackney/homerton side so nice n close : )

Nice one Fran, have pm'd the housing guy for you.

the housing guy

Don't forget, it's the London Open on Saturday/Sunday, in Bethnal Green gardens.

Come down and watch.

Don't forget, it's the London Open on Saturday/Sunday, in Bethnal Green gardens.

Come down and watch.

I was there yesterday for a couple of hours in the afternoon - was fab! How did Alfie, Robbie and Tim do? They were ace!

So much fun hosting my team, sad to see them go!
Some good friends made there for sure.

A few pictures from yesterday afternoon:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/62507261@N06/sets/72157631267766788/

A big thanks to everyone who housed people, and everyone who came and supported us.

A big thanks to everyone who housed people, and everyone who came and supported us.

This. Couldn't have been much happier with how the housing went, I heard no issues from anyone at all.

Thanks very much for this year everyone! Hope you had a good time with your guests and that everything went smoothly. Hopefully we will be as lucky next year and be able to offer as much housing as we did.

Hey London, many thanks for the great fun and awesome tournament. Well done Jono for an enormous task of organization.

I had an incredible time. It's always a pleasure to see the community together.

On another note, I lost my Leatherman multi tool at the Hackney Courts during the blinding drunk after-party nude polo extravaganza... If someone found it, please hit me up!!! metaman77(at)gmail.com

Thanks again peeps!!! I hope to see everyone again soon!!!

Rob

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