The best thing on Hive is without a doubt meeting new friends in real life. Rewards are nice but people are real , and that's why I like attending Hive meet ups even though I'm a very shy person. My first one was in Taiwan not long after I joined the chain five years ago, then there was one with Team Malaysia, and the biggest one so far was ~~Steem~~Fest in Bangkok in 2019. Now it's UK's turn this weekend.
The event was hosted by @c0ff33a one of our UK witness at his roastery. You're not going to get a better place than this for a gathering.
There were 11 Hivers in total, plus 3 guests. You'd think with 11 bloggers around there'd be plenty of photos, but sadly not one of us managed to take a group photo of everyone!! We were just too happy to meet everyone and chat that I guess it sorted of slipped our mind.
Anyway, for those who's interested to know who's who, here you go.... From left to right
@stevenwood @goblinknackers @shanibeer @slobberchops me @shmoogleosukami's dad @c0ff33a @shmoogleosukami @onw
@slobberchops @goblinknackers @molometer @onw @shanibeer @rimicane
@rimicane @dandays's wife Pura @dandays
You've probably seen the place is massive and most of the time groups of people wandered off to other areas. Like the techie corner where @shmoogleosukami (also a UK witness) and his dad and hubby was probably talking tech. Btw, you see the computer screen? That's a witnesses node, right next to a coffee roasting machine. Isn't it fascinating!?
If you're a coffee lover like @stevenwood, you'd feel like a school kid in a candy shop. You can see he's bursting with excitement at the sight of all the coffee varieties!! Just joking, it's my wide lense angle 😁
Here's another part of the roastery and another roasting machine. @c0ff33a did a special roast for us and that deserves it's own post which will come soon.
But let me give you a teaser if what we all came away with...
Yesterday was a small but intimate meetup and it was great to meet people from Hive in real life again. A few of us are planning to go to Hivefest in Amsterdam already. Can't wait to see you all again.
Thanks for lovely day everyone, especially @c0ff33a for hosting and running around making coffee for us all and @shanibeer for organising!! Next stop Hivefest!!