MIPIM isn't officially underway yet, but already the web is filling up with comments, post and pictures from France - and the route there. Estates Today is running its rather lovely automatic aggregator again this year, but here's some hand-gathered links for you:
Neil Young tries to answer the age-old question: why do we need to go to France to talk UK property? David Cockcroft has a go at answering the same question in a guest post on the Midlands Property blog.
Jackie Sadek is getting distracted by politics as she tries to clear her desk for MIPIM.
Manchester and Leeds are getting ready to go, but, apparently, Scotland has no money for a presence in Cannes this year. They'll be missing out on the "orgies". Oh, well. They could always enjoy a glass of whisky instead...
Cycle 2 Cannes
The most prolific MIPIM bloggers so far are the brave folks who are cycling from Greenwich to Cannes in aid of charity and adrenaline rushes.
Kate Eagle is posting on the official site. Alistair Craig of Elliot Wood is suffering some mechanical problems, Geoff Rich of Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios is delighted to bring us some pain and suffering from the road, but Joe Huddleston has been ominously quiet since Saturday. Oh, and the GVA team brings us a picture on someone "enjoying" an ice bath...
estatesgazette.com's own Samantha McClary is chronicling her journey day by day on her own blog. You can enjoy her nightly "bedroom diaries", too:
Interesting. Scotland and others who have little or no budget to take the show on the road could do like you do and create some online buzz! See what Manchester and Nottinghamwere able to achieve for very little in www.creopoint.com/forum/topics/the-5-companies-and-cities-who