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International Mabel Day XIII

Sunday December 2nd 2012

Dampness Update

Be aware that bits of Oxford are still underwater at the moment, Seacourt Park & Ride is only partially open, and Abingdon Road (near Redbridge P&R) is closed. Check your plans against the council's updates!

Meeting at The Royal Blenheim on St Ebbes St at Midday

The starting point for this year's tour will be The Royal Blenheim, the "new" starting pub first used in 2009. The Blenheim is utterly lovely, and will open from about eleven for bacon butties. It usually has at least eight hand pumps and some decent cider, too. It's great. We aim to start the dancing as soon after midday as is feasible.

At around 1:45 we'll move on to the Far From The Madding Crowd for about 45 minutes, and from there we will split into multiple tours and move on to other pubs, in some order that has not yet been decided owing to numbers not yet having been finalised and so on. We have some new pubs this year, including Copa Bar, and we are delighted to restore the utterly fabulous The Grapes to our touring schedule.

Old favourites on the route will include , The Crown, The Duke's Cut and The Chequers.

We'll all meet in the wonderful Kings Arms around 4ish for the rest of the afternoon to dance, drink and make merry. There might be cake.

Getting There

The poscode for The Royal Blenheim is OX1 1PT. It is about ten minutes walk from the Gloucester Green bus station, about 15 minutes from the train station and easily accessed by the Park & Ride buses.

The Teams

As of Wednesday 28h November, we are expecting:

... and, of course, Mabel Gubbins.

Last modified: Fri Nov 30 10:16:36 GMT Standard Time 2012