Yes, I'm still recovering from SteemFest, but that didn't withhold me from meeting even more Steemians today! I sent out a 'date picker' a few weeks before I went to SteemFest, thinking 'it would be alright' to have a meet-up only days after I had returned from Kraków... I was naive, a first-time SteemFest attendee... - Next year I block at least two weeks in my calendar to recover from it all.
No regrets though! I am very very happy I got to meet this bunch awesome Steemians - in my city even, which is a huge bonus!
Dutchies meeting up
A Dutch meet-up had never really happened before, I had a few 1-on-1 meetings with @amritadeva, @pundito and @brittandjosie in the past few months, but this would be the first 'bigger' meet-up. It was mentioned in a 'let's do this' way a few times in the past year, but figuring out what location would suit the community best, or what date... It never really got decided.
Getting in touch with @s3rg3 though, and knowing that the full @blockbrothers witness team (@bennierex, @exyle, @eqko, @s3rg3, @brittandjosie) was living in the Rotterdam area, it suddenly became quite obvious Rotterdam is the place to be for a Steem meet-up, since quite a large group of active Dutch Steemians all seem to live here or in the neighbourhood at least - and so it finally happened.
I arranged a date, @s3rg3 suggested an amazing location, and there we went! I plugged the date and location in the Dutch Discord server, and in the end the meet-up existed of @bengy, @greendeliverence, @verhp11, @missmau (wife of @s3rg3! She promised me to start blogging more :D), @amritadeva, @pundito, and the before mentioned members of the @blockbrothers team, @exyle, @s3rg3, @bennierex, and @brittandjosie - unfortunately this time without @eqko - he'll have to join in the fun next time.
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[Stolen pick from @s3rg3. I always flake taking pictures during meet-ups with unnatural light.]
Drinking a few beers and having a chat with these guys was pretty awesome! We chatted, drank beer, and basically it was SteemFest in small. The same level of 'feeling like I've known you for ages!', and same level of 'it's so easy to talk to you!' Next time I hope to see join more people, who knows: @r00sj3, @guchtere, @karinxxl (if in the Netherlands), @roelandp, @artakush...