Girly geek shopping – live!

by Sandrine Plasseraud in News on 14 March 2009 at 12:20 Google+

Today I’m taking part in a live girly geek event organised by Eurostar. They’ve invited 80 French and Belgian girls over to London to shop till they drop, and then they’ll be meeting up with 40 girls from London (including me) for tea time refreshment at the Berkeley hotel. The idea, of course, is to get the message out to French and Belgian girls (and boys) in general about how quick and easy it is to pop over to London by Eurostar for a cheap shopping trip, now the pound/euro exchange rate is, shall we say, more in their favour.

All of the girls are tweeting, flickring and geolocating their experiences in real time, and you can follow the action live via a rather nice Google Maps/Twitter/Flickr mash-up they’ve created especially for the day:

Girly geek shopping - live!

Eurostar of course is no stranger to social media – in fact, Robin created the Voice of a City blog for them back in 2005, where you can follow the exploits of 10 Parisians as they live their lives (check out the Eating and Drinking or Shopping categories for a bit of inspiration) – the insight being that you have a better time in a foreign city when you’ve got friends to show you around.

Anyway – I’m looking forward to meeting everyone later and having a proper English afternoon tea!

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  • Svanna

    Great idea! Did We Are Social come up with this idea or was it initiated by Eurostar?

  • http://www.creativeagencysecrets.com Rebecca Caroe

    As a girl geek, I'm gutted I wasn't invited.

  • warzabidul

    The speed was never in question, it's the prohibitive price of the tickets that is.

  • Svanna

    It may be expensive for us to go to Paris to shop but for the French, once they get here with the pound as low as it is, it's probably quite a bargain to do a big shop over here.

    The French / Belgian get cheap clothes, Eurostar make money transferring people, and the British get some cash into their shops. Win win all round! (kind of!)

  • http://www.idela.Fr baG

    The idea is awesome !

  • http://www.SEO-Chicks.com Judith Lewis 'deCabbit'

    Hi! I'm at the event today as the official rep from London Girl Geek Dinners.

    See you and all the Girl Geeks lucky enough to grab a ticket at the Berkeley Hotel shortly!

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