JohnAndNetta

Sorry Fraser - see - what do I know - huh!

Sue2

Netta your gonna hate me it will be by car 1hr 30 'at least' and if we came by train it looks like we would need to catch up to 3 trains ....just tried journey planner and even that got confused

Sorry! its been a nightmare hasn`t it....is there an area out of London that people would be happy with? would have more luck finding a child friendly place.......if everyone was happy with Greenwich 10 mins down the road is Kent!

Sorry Netta

fraser

Well why didn't you suggest that in the first place

Sue2

Its all you 'I want London' people this must be the longest meet post ever

Sue

fraser

I've always been happy to come to Welling
If someone had suggested it

Sue2

WHAT ARE WE ALL GONNA DO!!!!

jan

The whitbread hop farm paddock wood very nice,child friendly loads of beer,reasonable restaurant with child area.

JohnAndNetta

Oh My God - I turn my back for 5 minutes and my whole world falls apart I didn't realise Kew was so difficult to get to.
Sorry I didn't reply last night - didn't get back till late and had a stinking sinus headache.

OK - What about this Paddock Wood suggestion? I remember going ballooning there for my 30th birthday We crashed into some old biddies field and her alsatian dog looked very mean. John scorched his bald head under the burners! I can't remember where it is exactly but I'm sure it will be fine by us.

Or Welling - wherever that is. Basically we're fine with whatever the choice.

louise4

We looked at the route yestreday as well. it is 3 stops takes absolute ages on the train. printed off road map and it took 2 whole pages

Glad your braver than me, i didn't want to say anything

I will join the hunting team and see what i can find

JohnAndNetta

Oh - Louise you should have said.......I had no idea.....

I thought I was the only sad person awake at 05:45 in the morning. The cat decided to cough up some furballs. I thought my husband was choking so I woke up with a start, and can't get back to sleep again.

louise4

Hi Netta, no worries. just didn't want to waste all your hard work.
I am just going through some places now. what area are we looking for now. is kent a go or not. are we just looking london? let me know and i will try to help

JohnAndNetta

We personally have no problems with Kent or London. There are a couple of people(I think) that can't make Kent, and I daresay that there will be a couple that will be reluctant to go to London.

The trouble I've found with London is that all the well located nice pubs (i.e the ones in the City) are closed on Sunday. The ones that have play areas or gardens, are much further afield (e.g Greenwich / Kew) and are absolutely swamped at weekends and won't let you pre-book any tables, unless the whole party is dining. As we never know exactly who's going to turn up, and who'll be dining, its a bit of a nightmare.

So from that point of view its far easier to meet in a County pub rather than a London pub. I know in Essex we have quite a few pubs with very large gardens, good facilities for children, and bar food as opposed to seperate restaurants, so that not everyone has to eat. I'm sure Sue2 will know some places in Kent just the same.

Trouble is a lot of people simply prefer to jump on the train, so they can have a few drinks and not be too concerned about driving home. And this is where Kent is difficult. For us its about a 40 minute drive, but to get to Kent by train (for example) takes us about 2.5 hours! However, hubbie is happy to drive in our case, so that's why it really doesn't matter for us.

Although it may well mean excluding a couple of people I think we're going to have to start looking at Kent, otherwise we'll land up in a pub where we'll never get to sit together and that would be defeating the object.

Happy Hunting
Netta
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tonyk38

Paddock Wood is just down the road, er train track, from me.

Sue2

THIS IS THE PLACE TO GO!!!!! PERFECT It is a bit of a drive for me & Louise but it is a gr8 place loads of parking and good for kids.

Sue x

Sue2

Just had a look at the site for the Hop farm next to the pub to see if they had anything on that weekend as it gets very busy...and they have www.thehopfarm.co.uk ...I dont know how much this will effect the pub its self? could phone the pub and ask, if the weather is nice it would be a perfect meet place

Sue