FMX Conference Trip! : D

In this post I decided to talk a little about out ROAD TRIP!

Maybe I'll start from the start though, me and a few of my friends decided we wanted to go to the FMX conference, it's a conference that covers animation, effects, games and transmedia that takes place in Stuttgart, Germany.

We loved the idea of going. So we started looking at prices of tickets etc. It seemed to be waay too much for us to take a plane to Germany, hire a rent car etc etc. So I suggested that we drive there, it's not THAT far and we could have some real fun on the way, we could leave early and come back late just so we can take a little detour and see what Europe has to offer. 

So here is when the planning started. The conference is in April 22-25 which is a Tuesday till Friday, most of us have weekend jobs which would mean that we only take one weekend of work, because our plan is to go to work on a Sunday, and leave afterwards. I personally finish at 5 on Sundays meaning that we could leave at around 7 and get on  with our trip!

Originally we thought about driving to Hull and taking a ferry to Holland. It turns out that the tickets are a bit pricey and it takes 12 hours, so to save some more money and time we will be taking a different route. We will departure from Leeds at around 7 pm. We will be driving down to Dover to catch our ferry at 2:30 am, take a 2 hour ferry to Calais or Dunkirk. It'll take us around 7-8 hours to get to Stuttgart from Dunkirk which means we would arrive at around 12 in the morning, maybe a little later depending on traffic and etc. We are not planning on rushing though so we might take a little longer. Overall it's around 780 miles to get there. I think I've included everything and I think it'll come down to around 500 pounds per person including the ticket for the conference, fuel, hotel and the ferry. (That doesn't include  food and our shenanigans though.)

When researching things a bit I came across an article about funding such things. It's something only our tutor can apply for so I have forwarded him the article and he agreed to look into it. 

Now it's just a waiting game but we are hoping to get things booked and ready in January! : D