# UK Autumn/Winter Dopefest **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 20, 2004, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127 "2004-09-20T13:20:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/41 "2004-10-14T14:28:24Z")
Getting to London’s no problem. Exeter—\>London Megabus for £1. Spending five hours on an ordinary doubledecker with the most spectacular dregs of society. I just need to know when it is so I can book my ticket. And ponder accommodation. Any Doper willing to accommodate me would be welcome ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/42 "2004-10-14T15:18:02Z")
I’ll post up where we’ll be at and on what date once folk decide - it’ll either be the 27th Nov or 4th Dec as far as i’m aware. Details will include travel directions, nearest tube stations etc. Have a better idea of whereabouts after Saturday too. We going pub crawling. ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/43 "2004-10-14T15:20:58Z")
Just to check: are any of the other Dopers amongst those who have put a restraining order on me 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/44 "2004-10-14T15:32:29Z")
> [@Iceland\_Blue](#): > > Just to check: are any of the other Dopers amongst those who have put a restraining order on me 🆒 Not unless you’re kiera Knightley - that bitch just won’t leave me alone. ---
**Author:** ![Lars\_Aruns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Lars\_Aruns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lars_Aruns)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/45 "2004-10-14T16:13:25Z")
> [@Angua](#): > > How about this for a cunning plan: > > End of November/beginning of December - **BritDope I** > > End of January **BritDope II - Son of BritDope I**? > > Locations? Are there enough Dopers in Northern England to have the second over here? ---
**Author:** ![Lars\_Aruns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Lars\_Aruns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lars_Aruns)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/46 "2004-10-15T09:17:09Z")
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**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/47 "2004-10-15T10:25:31Z")
Depends on people chiming in from where they’re at I suppose. Top of me head, I know theres folk in Nottingham, Birmingham, Yorkshire, Bolton, Newcastle obviously. It’s just that everybody seems concentrated in London. I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/48 "2004-10-15T11:31:14Z")
Another Ex-pat **GomiBoy**? There’s loads of us here! There are also some dopers in Scotland that would probably find a Tyneside fest easier to attend. ---
**Author:** ![GomiBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@GomiBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GomiBoy)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/49 "2004-10-15T11:48:42Z")
> [@kferr](#): > > Another Ex-pat **GomiBoy**? There’s loads of us here! Sorry for the hijack, but do you get lost here as well? I live in London, and I am forced to travel like a tourist - I have to have a map to hand, and am useless without an A-Z. I also need every part of an address to be able to find somewhere, as well as nearest tube stop and everything! And I have been in London for a bloody year! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/50 "2004-10-15T11:57:13Z")
I live about 45 minutes out of London by train (Farnborough) and don’t get into town that often, but I’m getting better at getting around. But then I’ve been here 10 years. My trade secret is to use a compass. When you pop up out of an unfamiliar tube station it helps you figure out which side of the road you’re on. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/51 "2004-10-15T12:22:27Z")
> [@paulberserker](#): > > Depends on people chiming in from where they’re at I suppose. > Top of me head, I know theres folk in Nottingham, Birmingham, Yorkshire, Bolton, Newcastle obviously. > It’s just that everybody seems concentrated in London. I don’t know. Concentrated? London? Bloody demented, more like! (All righty, only joking, really) As **Kferrr** said, there are probably enough, including the few Dopers in Scotland, who might find a Geordieland meet-up geographically convenient. From my own point of view, if I would go to London, I can most probably crash with a friend in Thornton Heath, but, anyway, Newcastle-ish is nearer, so, … .whatever. In any case, as long I post a reply here, I can keep track of planning developments, so to speak, and decide later. I’m currently studying to be a proper hermit, but, then again, I quickly sort _that_ one out soon after hitting the pub. 🙂 (Celyn, making mental note to investigate my messsy bookshelves for appropriate A-Zs) ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/52 "2004-10-18T10:23:11Z")
An update, after a weekend excursion. Right, we went looking on Saturday round Convenient Garden at some pubs, but didn’t find any. However, one of them gave us a lead as to a room we could book, which Mr Garius will be checking out this week sometime. If it makes you feel any better, we had a good laugh doing it though. We’re looking at November 27th for this too. Anyone any objections to that? ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/53 "2004-10-18T11:55:40Z")
Wheee!! We have a time and a place. I think November 27th was generally agreed to be the best place. Where’s the pub that the intrepid **Garius** is looking into, and should we organise some food of some sort, like we’ve done for all other Fests? ---
**Author:** ![GomiBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@GomiBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GomiBoy)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/54 "2004-10-18T12:16:38Z")
Don’t let me stop you, but I can’t make the 27th. I will have a horde of folks at mine for a widows and orphans thanksgiving… ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/55 "2004-10-18T13:01:56Z")
The Crown and Anchor. I’ll pop in on Wednesday. ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/56 "2004-10-18T13:07:49Z")
Where is it? Still in Covert Garden? ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/57 "2004-10-18T13:26:23Z")
Think he said Neil Street - which is just up of Conenient Garden ---
**Author:** ![seosamh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@seosamh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seosamh)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/58 "2004-10-18T14:39:12Z")
Do you mean the Crown & Anchor, 22 Neal Street? Can’t say that I’ve ever been in, but if the write-up from Fancy A [Pint.com](http://Pint.com) is anything to go by, I won’t be in a hurry: _“Summer usually finds this place with crowds of people massed in the street outside. We’re not sure why (well apart from its location) because this place doesn’t know whether it’s a pub or a bar and the fantastically high prices charge[d] belie the mediocrity of the drink on offer. If you like crowds, average drink and paying through the nose for it, you’ll love it here.”_ Take out a mortgage. ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/59 "2004-10-18T15:30:59Z")
Hmm, I suggest we look elsewhere then. Proper annexing somewhere might be best, depending on how many disappear for food in the evening. I’ll ask about tomorrow night. Someone must no somewhere, but if all else fails, suppose theres the Silver Cross or Prinny Lou. Gah! ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/60 "2004-10-23T09:31:58Z")
> [@garius](#): > > The silver cross does do bookings, but i don’t know whether they charge. I’ll ask next time i’m in there. Re Silver Cross… they always open the downstairs bar if there are enough punters to make it worthwhile, but not otherwise. When I ‘booked’ it for a previous Dopefest, and for another (smaller) party once, they didn’t charge. They just asked me how many people I was going to bring into their luvverly pub and ‘allocated’ me a chunk of the downstairs bar area. But even so, on the day they won’t actually open it up until and unless they feel there are enough punters to justify it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127.md?page=4)