** DURHAM ** Coffee and cake next Friday - 20th November

[StealthPolarBear]

Does anyone fancy meeting in Durham for a coffee and cake next Friday?

do you write a guidebook indith??
where's the place near the library? you don't mean the new inn surely?
(although i'd be up for chips + garlic mayo and a game of pool )

"Cakes of the north east"

lol wrong library SPB, I mean Clayport library. Mmmmmm chips.

Have just booked the Christmas meet restaurant for those interested parties.

ah that makes more sense!

lol is there plenty of places to park as well? i'm so useless at durham

So where shall we meet?

Juney you should be able to find parking easily enough. During the day you can usually get parked on Old Elvet which is very central.

Well if I can get dizzytrout to come she will be coming from the bus station so I was thinking somewhere near Millburngate?? But don't know what's around there

Not much

right, so further in town probably better
where's that guide book you wrote?

sorry that was a really unhelpful answer!

Lets go for Cafe Continental on Elvet Bridge as from experience if we can get a table downstairs it is the best place with toddlers. If we can't then it is all much the same, nowhere really has buggy space(apart fromt he place near the library where they look at you as though you are an alien and try to make you as uncomfortable as possible) so even if we end up upstairs it is no big deal. And they sell chocolate truffle cheesecake. And I keep seeing their lunch menu and thinking I should try it out

sounds good

so me
BouncingTurtle
Indith
juneybean
dizzytrout (dragged her in from another thread )

any more??

If Laugs hasn't popped already I will ask her tomorrow?

no SPB. i feel like shit, still, with swine flu since last monday. if I feel better by friday and I may do, I ought to go to .... work.

i still haven't met your scrummy dd.

Oh no foxy! You been hit hard then? That is rubbish.

SPB's dd is scrummy. She passed her to me on Monday and I refused to give her back, she was all awake and looking around and doing lovely little smiles.

thanks Indith, she is lovely, even when full of snot and with little fists like ice cubes

Oh poor you Foxy!!

I'll be driving in, not sure where I am parking yet, not going to use the park n ride as I will have starving toddler with me lol, so it'll be quicker just to get parked up somewhere!

SO Cafe Continental don't mind rampaging toddlers running around then?

Bloody hope so

I'll probably be there for around 12:30.

Well more that if you get a table downstairs it is a tiny square room so he can run round in circles and you don't have to chase after him! Plus there are only a couple of tables down there so you don't feel as though you are annoying the whole cafe.

final few bumps, anyone else coming?

Bumping too!

So 12.30 ? and downstairs?

I assume that given I know where Elvet Bridge is, this place isn't hard to find? Haven't noticed it, it's not where Hollathan's was is it?

I've only looked on google maps and it seems to be on a sort of corner right near the bridge? I could be walking around aimlessly lol

well the bridge isn't big so i'm assuming i'll find it when i have my eyes open!

It is the end of the bridge that the Swan and 3 is and over the other side from it, near STA and Lebeado.

thanks, i know where you mean