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Does anyone live in that sort of area?

Was thinking about doing a meet and thought it was a central sort of location. does anyone have any ideas of where we could meet?

Theres quite a few of us live this way on here. Depends what sort of meet you want, theres Bristol Zoo if you want to bring kids and have a picnic, The Mall for Coffee's or most people can bus or train it to Broadmead for Pubs and restaurants.

Be Careful if your not local though, Bristol has two Train Stations, Templemeads and Parkway. Parkway is motorway drive from centre of Town - Templemeads is a 15 min walk to town or an 8 or 9 bus which run every 10 mins.

i can get train to templemeads from plymouth would love to meet people

chris x

Maddie, is there anywhere nice near to the train station? Just been looking at the map and it's near the river.

that sounds nice helen a nice pub or restaurant by a river but not fussed really will go along with everyone else

chris x

Maddie it would be Templemeads. as trains from both Birmingham and Cornwall and Devon way come into there.

Yes the 'nice' train station is Templemeads its very beautiful and historic. Bristol is undergoing a multi million pound redevelopment at the moment though and wont be finished till late sept - so driving by sat nav is a NO NO! LOL

Theres lost of History in Bristol and you can even see the nails up on the harbour where saying hitting the nail on the head was coined.

We have the SS Great Briton here too - and Corn Street was built on medievil ruins. A statue of Brunel is not far from the station and there is some fantastic archetecture as well as great views.

Well the river runs through the centre of Bristol so you can go downtown to where the theatres and pubs are. Theres a floating restaurant as well which overlooks the prettier side of town.

The station is actually in the Temple Gate area which is hotels and offices legal, insurance and banking - I suppose you could say it is our Docklands area. But its not far into town.

Theres an ok pub called the knights templar you should be able to see on your map - its in the 'city' bit and used mainly by office types - food isnt too bad.

maddie do you fancy being our tour guide

must say it sounds lovely

chris x

SS Great Britain sounds interesting and not too far from Templemeads.

We have had three meets at pubs near parkway station, one only last year. Can't remember the name of the second pub we used which was better than the first but Guinevere might remember, or Viv, or Mandy if she is looking in tonight.

We have also had two meets at Webbs Garden centre near Droitwich, just off the M5.

Ann
Glos

Ann I missed both of the webbs one's. I thought Bristol would be quite central. Approx 2 hours by train form Brum, Plymouth, Portsmouth and London.

I shouldn't be talking to you Ann, anyway LOL You didn't warn me about the atrocious weather that turned up last Thurs/ Fri down your neck of the woods. LOL

Tour Guide - Maddie laughs - Im a tourist - ive only lived here (Bristol) four years - Im a Southener lol, but ive adopted my new home town and all that comes with it.

well it sounds like you know your stuff maddie
where you from originally then

chris x

Folkstone born and bread but lived for ten years in London and communted to London for another ten from the outskirts of Kent.

Gave up the rat race, downscaled and moved to a beautiful part of the country.

Best thing I ever did :)

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actually that not true Ive also had to learn to drive as the public transport here is not so good - thats prob the best thing I've ever done.

Helen, it didn't rain at all here on Thursday, I was out in town and had to take my coat off it was sow arm. then we walked round to the hairdresser in the afternoon with no coats. All our weather forecast had said was showers Friday and Saturday. but I was in Milton Keynes on Friday until Monday. had one shower there, don't think it rained here!!

Ann
Glos

i was born and brought up in london wouldnt want to live there now though but i do like to visit now and again live in village in cornwall but i lived in folkestone for a couple of year as OH was stationed there with army that would have been around 1985

chris x

the only problem with T Meads is the parking for people who come by car.

Roflmao, ANN have you not seen the piccies from Fairford. LOL

Take a look.

https://www.airtattoo.com/airtattoo/Newsroom/news/Newsroom/AIR_TATTOO_CANCELLATION

I saw it on TV Helen. It often happens that parts of Gloucester get the rain and parts don't. it was our turn last July!