The Albion Pub

Olympia isn’t exactly crammed with vibrant pubs but this little number a little down the road from the conference centre suits most tastes. It is a dark woody long pub with lots of light coming in from its small windows and packed full of suits eating their lunch and drinking. The bar staff [...]

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Orange Social and Networking Bar

The large feature bar at 2008’s London edition of the popular Internet conference was sponsored by Orange Mobile. Rather than a central piece, this temporary bar had been erected at the back of the Olympia main hall. The bar consisted of a number of high chairs and small tables, a fats bar [...]

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Omniture Bar Stand

Rumour of a free bar at a conventional stand had spread far and wide before this event, or so I had thought, so imagine my surprise to see so few people milling around in front of the Omniture stand at Adtech 2008 in London’s Olympia. The stand was fairly small, a standard size [...]

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Cafe Del Mondo

This cafe gets probably 100 per cent of its business from the enormous Olympia conference hall over the road. The cafe is pretty much a single file queue down to the stumpy till with a small swarm of tiny chairs with accompanying tables at the back. The place is run very much like [...]

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