INSIDE THE WORLD OF MEETUP

  I'd never been to a meetup in the South Leicester area and it was a welcome change of scenery. Great Glen was a nice village to start off in. We headed out to Stretton hall and past a small airport, (I wasn't aware Leicester even had an airport). We did have a navigation dispute at the halfway point as the organizer was following a list of instructions instead of a map.  It was a nice steady flat walk overall, finished off with a social drink at the Greyhound.  

 I noticed something familiar as soon as I got off the bus and walked towards the start of the walk outside a pub. I have always promised myself I won't do repeat walks within a year of doing them before. Unfortunately I didn't check and at least half the walk was what I did back on the 22nd April. We went across Beeston hills fields to Bramcote hills park and revisited the hemlock stone. It was a good view over the hill before walking by the old disused canal through a couple of nature reserves back to the Nurseryman pub and grill. Nobody stopped for a drink and went straight home.  

I was feeling absolutely terrible the previous evening and had to drag myself out the house to attend this event. On one hand this was a welcome break from endless walks and on the other it wasn't a mad night out drinking which I certainly wasn't up for. We met at Leicester clocktower and headed to the park after half an hour. We were some of the first in, the weather was dry and not too cold which is always a bonus. First display I'd been to for years and was amazed by the scale of the even, walked for 15 minutes beyond the stage pictured above, passed the funfair and they had another fire on at the far end. If you didn't get food or drinks first thing (I did) you were going to be waiting ages. A small display for the kids, fire jugglers, a singer with the sound terribly mixed and finally the main firework display at 8pm. Not my video. The crowd quickly started leaving after 8:20, was invited for drinks in town but not feeling it and went home