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Happy to leave the balloons out but can we tourist it up a little rather than afterwork City type pub? Next week mind I think I can be free on Tuesday night in an establishment of anyones choosing

What time are people of arriving on Tuesday?
I'll be out of work probably about 6 and got the drop stuff at the hotel and potentially have a beer or 2 with some folk from the office, but could always bring them along if they want to stick about.
I think what I'm trying to say is I haven't got a clue yet what time I'm looking at.

I finish at 6pm and would heartily recommend the old bank of england pub on Fleet street

IAIN wrote:Balloons are the poor man's rohypnol...

Do you consider yourself above that, preferring actual rohypnol? Or do you prefer an unassisted approach?

right - roll call....

i'll be there tuesday, 5.40ish...old bank of england, i'll grab the seats at the back like last time if i can...

who's coming?

me
nathan
possible lenny

Me and Rob will be there. though not sure what time. Will try and make for 6 so long as I can get away from work at a sensible time and don't have to stop for a beer with work people. Maybe 7 if I do.

PM me for my number if anyone wants it.

now to find this pub!

Edit: Pub located. Given that our office is on Chancery Lane I think I might just be able to make 5.40.
If we can then have a wander in the direction of covent garden I can check in at the hotel with minimal time away from pub.

All good for me, I need to remember this pub place as well (google is my friend)

My hotel is the Strand Palace

Agecroft wrote:My hotel is the Strand Palace

Bloody Strand Palace. Said they were fully booked the day or 2 before you booked your room! Maybe they just didn't want me back.
Anyway, I'm in the Covent Garden Travelodge (big spender!)

Both of those are within a 10 minute amble to the Bank of England.

Just a quick tip for any of you non-Londoners heading down (I'm not - work, y'see) who aren't fluent in the ways of the Underground yet don't want to look like a tourist with maps and signs...
...if you've got something resembling a "smartphone" - get on the web and download a good sized picture of the tube network map.

I had one on my phone when in That London a few weeks ago and found it incredibly useful to be able to check a route (even more so when trying to do so on the fly to avoid the engineering work that's probably still going on) without having to find a map or crane my neck to see one while on a train.

Have fun, folks.

There's an App for that too

TubeMap has pride of place on screen 2 inside the Travel folder on my iPhone

It makes you wait for a bit while it shows you an advert, but it has some cool features


Yeah, I'm a scally northerner who can't talk proper - I'll stop hijacking your thread now

An iWhat? Oh - you mean one of those toy phones from the lunatics who think they invented video calling? Get a real phone... get an Android.
(Sorry - had to get that dig in.)

Yes, there are apps, but why bother with an app when you can have a perfectly good picture that does the same job? Of course - if said app needs any kind of network coverage to work it'll be about as useful to someone using the London Underground as it would be to someone using the Metrolink back in Manchesterland.

i've not understood the last 4 posts due to Northernese being talked...

at least we've trained 'doniz to speak the Queen's...(no offense Mr. G)...

tonight was both eye-opening (much like a colostomy bag) and entertaining...

One has learnt to reject my former third world accent and hope one day to ascend my lowly origins and be accepted as one of the civilised ones.


Eye opening indeed. Many a lesson hath been learn'ed