Boyfriends Birthday - Help!

craftoholic

not 18 yet! thats my plan for next year

Pee

Stratford is really easy to get to by train from Birmingham. I have done it and think there was a train late enough to catch an evening Shakespeare play, although that might not be what you would want to do. It would make a good day trip though, saving money on somewhere to stay. Another option would be Shrewsbury, another pretty town or Kidderminister to see the railway?

I think the festival idea best if you can anyway figure it out. If you think about food and drink and maybe take some with you, you should be able to keep costs low, although I appreciate carrying stuff makes it harder.

Have a look on flightchecker for a cheap flight somewhere interesting. The London idea sounds good, a travelodge for a sunday night wouldn't bee too bad, maybe the sunday and monday?

ska_lover

Do the festival if poss. soni is going 2 be awesome this year

susancs

To go to the festival at Knebworth you could go via www.megabus.com and can currently find fares to get from Birmingham to London Victoria on the Friday via coach for £7 each and on the Monday you can get the Virgin train from London Euston to Birmingham for £1 each. You can get a coach from London Victoria to Stevenage for £12 return fare each details of fares and timetables here.
http://www.intalink.org.uk/Timetables/tt/797_C_ATG.PDF
http://www.greenline.co.uk/content.aspx?id=6445

Apparently you can get a free shuttle service from the station according to the offical website from Stevenage train station to the festival Knebworth. Although travelling will obviously take longer than orginally planned with your friend driving, it would only cost £14 each for your return travel.

craftoholic

Yeah I think I am going to go with soni! Somehow.. now, how to do a festival on the cheap?! Tents are so expensive. We're hoping more people come though tbh so we can all chip in

roadiegirl

The cheap ones from Tesco are fine, mine lasted for Leeds Fest two years on a run, and then Download last year as well. Just don't get the pop up ones, they're really bad, get the old traditional put the poles in yourself job! We took loads of pot noodles/super noodles for meals, loads of sausages to make butties in the morning, loads of cereal bars, crisps, fruit, ribena cartons etc.
See you there!

craftoholic

roadiegirl wrote: »

The cheap ones from Tesco are fine, mine lasted for Leeds Fest two years on a run, and then Download last year as well. Just don't get the pop up ones, they're really bad, get the old traditional put the poles in yourself job! We took loads of pot noodles/super noodles for meals, loads of sausages to make butties in the morning, loads of cereal bars, crisps, fruit, ribena cartons etc.
See you there!

Ill have a look there then, if ebay fails me. yeah i've heard the pop up ones arent brilliant, and I guess it'll add some fun struggling to put one up ! yeah we've got two barbeques, so just gonna look and see whats on offer in the supermarkets ect. Wooo - should arrange a MSE meet up! haha

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JimmyTheWig

craftoholic wrote: »

Im 17, he will be turning 19

Valli wrote: »

Radio 2 so you won't have been listening

This made me smile.

Wootball

Get him driving lessons, so you can avoid this whole fiasco in future

craftoholic

Lmao, well he's a lucky lucky sod - work are paying for his lessons, theory, practical AND THEY PAID FOR HIS PROVISIONAL !!! Just because of the way it's done it's taking foreeeever to sort out, but hopefully, next year we'll be laughing all the way to soni!