Based on that possibility alone, consider me there!

Sounds like it might be a different Rich vomiting this time *bleurgh*

 

:P

It's going to cost me £40 quid in train fares.

 

I'm not sure I can afford that. It's lots. I'm still a trainee with a shit salary and lots of london rent to pay.

 

If I do come, people have to promise to buy me lots of beer....

I'll buy you a beer if you promise not to talk to girls.

The Northern Meats have always been characterised by making sure that everybody is provided for...

:-$

It's not as bad as it sounds.

 

I really shouldn't have gone out drinking champagne cocktails last night to celebrate the SNP results.

 

Plus, i'm guessing that a pint is less than £3.50 in Bradford? That always helps matters...

Seconded.

Depdnds if your name is Dyl, we are in the love Apple and you order a Hoegaarden.

 

(No, beer is generally cheaply cheap.)

Right, just booking tickets and stuff.

 

If I book london to bradford it'll cost about £45. If I book London to Leeds and buy walk-up tickets for Leeds-Bradford for £1.60, the total cost is about £24!

 

But to get the cheap tickets to Leeds I need to choose one of the following options:

 

Option 1: Get the 10:53 train from Leeds back to London. THis means getting to Leeds for, like 10:30, so leaving bradford at about 10.

 

This doesn't sound terribly compatable with potential hangover situation.

 

Option 2: Get the 16:40 train from Leeds to London. THis involves having a 'spare' day in Bradford, but as I want to go see the photo-whatsit museum and stuff that isn't bad thing. Unless it's closed on Sundays.

 

Option 2 seems more sensible, but will cost a bit more in train tickets and stuff.

 

I don't like making decisions! :'(

 

If others are planning to get back to stations early and stuff then I'll probably try and go for the same. If not, then I'll book the later and fill my day as I see fit!

Bear in mind you'll be returning from Steeton & Silsden (five mins walk from my gaff). The Sunday service may help you make up your mind.

Goof point, I always forget that the only reliable thing about public transport on a Sunday is that it'll be shit.

Lorks.  I recall buying my first ever pint in London and nearly passing out from shock because it was 35p. I simply couldn't believe how anybody could justify charging that huge amount. A pint in my local pub just down the road in Newbury was 14p then.

You calling me a goof?

Yes, yes I am.

 

I blame staying in bed all day and typing on a laptop. Yes, I'm still in bed.

 

(fail)

You lazy scotch fop.

I don't generally pay £3.50 a pint in London, I feel obliged to point out. It's generally more expensive than elsewhere, but that sounds like fancy-posey-bar-prices. Or fancy posey Hoegaarden type beer maybe.

That particular 35p was for some lager or other, upstairs in the Cambridge in Charing Cross Road.

There was some artistic license (lying) in that post. My first pint in London was in the Raynes Park, in - er - Raynes Park. 29p for an appalling pint of Watney's served from an electric pump.

Hmmm.

 

Hmmm I say.

 

Since it's on a Saturday, I may perchance be able to remain longer than previously anticipated since I won't be having to get up for work at 6.15 the next morning.

I can arrive whenever, but may be heading off at 8ish or so. Bradford isn't the most train-friendly place for me :(