Organising a Doo for 50+ is enough to put anyone off...

I too worry about Doo inflation... gourmet dinners, delivery of packs to hotels, laminated or airside badges - all very nice, but quite onerous for the organiser(s), especially while trying to juggle work and family and normal life with travel and Doos.

Seems to me that 1 person cannot hope to put together a polished professional event. A team is needed. But is this what a Doo is really about?

For me a Doo is about meeting FTers in a new location, some old friends, some new, picking up a few piles & moints along the way and having a good soak of local poison and a bit of an adventure... leaving me with some memories, some photos and a world class hangover. Equally happy drinking yak's milk in a back street in Almaty as in the exec lounge in the Mariott in Zurich on this basis.

I was very relieved to see the Pop the Cork Doo emerge... the number of people who wanted me to organise another Shamrock Doo was quite frightening. Whenever it does happen, there will be sticky badges and dinners paid by the table. No Eventbrite for me... but each to their own. The Doo has become an important part of the FT experience for many of us. Long may it continue.