INSIDE THE WORLD OF MEETUP

  Another canal walk but this time somewhere slightly different, it was a bus and a train ride (via Long Eaton) to get to Willington. Met at the marina and walked towards Stenson for a coffee and cake pitstop. Helped out with getting a boat through the lock then walked a slightly different route back to the starting point.

  No hotel available so this time I was at the mercy of public transport to get home. We started off at the Pitcher and piano which has to go down as the strangest pub I have ever been in. It's basically a church with the seats taken out and a bar placed in the same place.   It was nearly an hour of sitting at the bar before locating the group who were actually in a bar outside, we talked for a couple of hours before moving across the road. We headed across the road, nice place but not the kind of venue I'd want to linger all night. As time goes past midnight I need a more club like environment to keep going or I just fade away. Which is basically what happened.