Personally, I had a very nice time. My first visit to that location, and frankly the trip was exhausting! 'Twas a very hot, cloudless day and to get to the estate I had to climb over a quarter mile of very steep hills. Fortunately, I did bring a walking stick and cold water.
The folks there were in general very nice. Not having a DS shirt I wore my nametag from the Festival. We all chatted, introduced ourselves, got into a few tiny debates about how to do DS in the future. I mentioned to Victoria my own hope that the new movie would be a huge hit and inspire somebody to make a new t.v. series. Discovered a fair number of Joss Whedon fans in the group who like Dr. Horrible (and well they should!). Had a chat with Prof.Stokes about the different "good guy vampires" since Barnabas (Louis, Nick, Angel, that lame guy on Moonlight, etc.).
We went on a tour of the estate, hampered by the heat and what looked like a lovely wedding going on in a big chunk of the gardens. One person had actually watched the 91 series ahead of time and was looking for sites from it. I'm enough of a historical geek to note that, like the original series, this place just didn't look like it could have been built in 1795. And my contribution to semi-witticisms was to note "Wasn't this where Daphne almost killed Joe?"
In general the folks were all very nice, and Victoria said how pleased she was to get so many new people to attend! I'm looking forward to meeting youse guys once more!
