Mark and Patrick,

When are you going up to Cambridge, and from where in London?

"When" is open to your suggestion, and I don't know exactly where in London yet.

Here's the tentative plan. It's not set in stone yet, and is subject to change, especially if changing it would make it easier for us to bum a ride or two.

- Arrive at London/Gatwick the morning of Wednesday July 2nd.

- Spend the 2nd and the 3rd in London. Stay at the hotel two nights (I don't know which hotel yet), the nights of the 2nd and the 3rd.

- The morning of Friday the 4th, hopefully check out of the hotel and get picked up by someone going to Cambridge.

- Spend a little time seeing the offices there and meeting everyone before we all head over to Amersfoort.

assuming there wasn't too much luggage.

We're hoping to keep the luggage for this trip light. We want to have only three rolling suitcases (one for each of us), partly because we've had bad experiences with lost checked baggage on connecting flights and want to do only carry-ons, and partly because we know that it'll be easier to bum rides if we don't have huge amounts of luggage.