mr_cellophane
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An amazing 9/10 considering I have only ever spent 2 nights there.
An amazing 9/10 considering I have only ever spent 2 nights there.
To be fair it was quite nice there, to the extent that they wouldn't let us in to one local bar. We hadn't really gone the full "Alan Partridge blazer/chinos/boatshoes look" by a long way and our converse/festival chic vibe wasn't doing it for the door men.I knew about the canals thing. I am rather fond of canals but I'm not sure that I'd overnight too close to Brum in a narrowboat, having heard horror stories from my friends who have narrowboats.
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At the end of Gas Street Basin is the Mailbox and is very pretentious around there, full of hipsters and the cool crowd so not unusual to be turned away, particularly in a group.To be fair it was quite nice there, to the extent that they wouldn't let us in to one local bar. We hadn't really gone the full "Alan Partridge blazer/chinos/boatshoes look" by a long way and our converse/festival chic vibe wasn't doing it for the door men.
And of course, you didn't have to chug along the canal far, to be out in the countryside.