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    #11
    Edinburgh and Glasgow are well worth a night out in Christmas Party season. Forget the Christmas Market thing. If you want to see 'Pissed' done at Olympian levels these are the places to be.
    Guy Fawkes - "The last man to enter Parliament with honourable intentions."

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      #12
      Originally posted by gingerjedi View Post
      Thats my neck of the woods.
      I'm half a mile from Babington House lol.

      What's the Webbington like?

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        #13
        Originally posted by pacharan View Post
        I'm half a mile from Babington House lol.
        Is that near the Battlebrough?
        “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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          #14
          What's a Christmas market all about then other than tat?
          Me, me, me...

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            #15
            Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post
            Is that near the Battlebrough?
            No, The Battlebrough is at Brent Knoll.

            Babington House is near the village of Kilmersdon just outside Radstock.

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              #16
              Apparently Birmingham has a good one. Its twinned with Frankfurt and all the stallholders come over from Germany and do it proper (even the carpark machines were in German last year.) The one in Darmstadt is tulip. Münster is nice, in fact they have 5, one in each of the squares around town. Nürnburg will be hellish busy full of tourists. Dresden is picturesque but ******* cold. Munich is full of *******. Frankfurt has got better and you can take the kids to the film museum afterwards. Trier is very nice. Stuttgart is so so and Heidelberg is not too bad. In the more pictureque towns it tends more to arts and crafts. Glühwein tastes like tulip but the various hot schnapp'es are the bollocks but lethal.
              Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.

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                #17
                Originally posted by Durbs View Post
                i was originally planning on taking the kids to Lapland this Xmas/New Year but after shopping around, it was just going to cost silly money for 3 or 4 nights.

                Am therefore planning on going for a city break to one of the big Xmas markets, has anyone been to any of them before? Looking around the intraweb, top 10 is listed as:

                1. Cologne Christmas Markets
                2. Vienna Christmas Market
                3. Nuremberg Christmas Market
                4. Dresden Christmas Market
                5. Brussels Christmas Market
                6. Munich Christmas Market
                7. Prague Christmas Markets
                8. Tallinn Christmas Market
                9. Berlin Christmas Market
                10. Copenhagen Christmas Market

                The missus fancies Cologne and i fancy Copenhagen but we've been to neither so dont know whether they are any good or if there is a better bet? going to go for 3 or 4 days so must be stuff there to keep the kids amused for that amount of time hence choosing a city rather than one of the smaller town ones. Would be good if the place was 'proper' snowy too!


                Could try Bournemouth
                "A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by pacharan View Post
                  I'm half a mile from Babington House lol.

                  What's the Webbington like?
                  It was the place to be in the 70's, all the celebs (proper ones) partied at the Webby.

                  I went to wedding there a few years back which was ok, not on a par with Babington House!
                  Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by gingerjedi View Post
                    It was the place to be in the 70's, all the celebs (proper ones) partied at the Webby.
                    Racey?

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by wurzel View Post
                      Racey?
                      Ha, I used to live opposite the lead singer when I was a kid. Later I used to see him out and about in the clubs (he owned Hobbits nightclub at one point), nobody missed the opportunity to hum 'Some Girls' when he walked passed but he never saw the funny side, miserable sod.

                      My parents tell me cricketers, footballers, actors, rock stars etc all used to hang out at the Webbington.
                      Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson

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