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PA Meetup [UK] - Birmingham, October 24th and 25th 2009. We Survived!
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EDIT: The company went into administration, shame, it looked pretty cool
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Sektor
Omega Sektor was pretty cool but every time I popped up to brum to go there it was always quite empty. A shame really.
So, Sat 24th and Sun 25th October there will be stuff in Birmingham. Woohoo!
I shall continue to work out what can be done essentially in the city centre (Cesca no walk so well), and probably put the Barber Institute and Nature Centre on hold as they would involve additional public transport (probably the bus).
+1 on Bacchus, it is really is as fantastic as floofy says.
Does not compute. D:
Then how do you explain this, good sir?
I was going to ask Elki to sticky this next week so we can plan stuff without having to search through the pages for the thread.
If people are coming, booking the train now is probably a good idea so that you can get the cheap advance tickets.
I'm still thinking of things and trying to come up with as many choices of stuff to do as possible.
Well, is there a nearby petting zoo?
A Penny Arcade Meetup.
In Birmingham, no less, the home of my birth, and as dear to me as (insert fictional city of choice) is to it's inhabitants. A city in which I not only work every day, but regularly get somewhat drunk in, and generally know and love like a warm, friendly, but slightly stupid and poorly smelling Canine of some sort.
I'd count myself in if
A) I remember (I'm somewhat infrequent in my forumgoing)
B) I'm actually available. Time constraints such as a girlfriend, Pnp RPGs, WOW raids, and a wedding to attend all loom on my horizon, leaving hardly any time for quality lounging-around-time, much less boozing it up with you fine folks.
So put me down as tentative, and if I don't make it, do check out the free museum, the lovely canal walks, and The Flapper, my personal favourite pub.
Broad Street is both Noisome(in all senses of the word) and Fun, on a Saturday Evening especially. It may also be a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Edit: Those seeking a LAN venue are well advised to check out the GGA lan tucked away near the Law Courts. A quality den of iniquity and fragging, it is home away from home for a large number of itinerant computer gamers of all sorts, and thus, haven for our kind. http://www.globalgaming.co.uk/home.htm
Edit the second: Given I actually know the darn city, it would be somewhat remiss of me not to offer assitance of various forms in making this meeting a success, thusly, feel free to contact me at freelancer.bob@gmail.com for advice and guidance regarding birmingham and it's denizens or any other business.
If you've got any suggestions for some good restaurants/pubs, it'd be really helpful (must be disabled access or not very many stairs, though)
Edit: if there's a lot of you, make a reservation.
Fantastic, I will check it out (Is it the "Handmade Burger Co.? I've been recommended that by others).
I was planning on making a reservation for somewhere. Saturday night + many people does not equal getting a table.
I mean it ain't all hyper fancy or nothing, but it's good eats and I ain't seen too many places doing that kinda variety in burger options much.
General thoughts are museums and galleries and stuff during the afternoon, food somewhere and then descending on a pub for teh drinking.
Birmingham is actually full of nightclubs
It's like, a party capital or something.
My Gf's sister insisted we go to Flares, an 80's style nightclub, for new years eve one time. Short story: it sucked.
There's tonnes of great pubs in birmingham, and I don't know any but the weatherspoons, aussie bar and the Flapper.
I'd recomend the aussie bar only it's on broad street and you're here on a saturday night.
See as a Kiwi this has me tempted and repelled. I have a theory that Australian themed bars are the next Irish Pub/Bar fad and that soon every city will have such a bar, to offer an alternative to Old Mother Murphy's Authentic Irish Pub/Bar and Dance Bar
I thought every city did have an Aussie theme bar. I know there were a couple back home, and I fuzzily remember one in Newquay.
Are we talking about Bushwhackers, incidentally? I have not heard positive things.