BristolCon 2014

I certainly intend going.


And thanks for pointing out the price rise. While I've always bought before the day, I've never done so as early as May.
 
Yay! :D

I usually buy early, Ursa, but I was late last year so paid the dearer price.
 
I had a table in 2010 and I just paid the same price as I would to go as a guest. It might've changed since then, so I'd email and ask.
 
Might have to consider this, as it's on the doorstep, so to speak. Thinking about York, as well, but only to meet up with other Chronners. Hmm, is there another reason to go to a convention? ;)
 
I'm never entirely sure if it's wise for me to bring my entourage to a convention, highly tempted to ignore my internal wisdom though.
 
Not being one to turn down an offer, I too have bought my ticket. :)
 
Yay! See you there.

Where'd you park last time, Ursa? I did the park and ride but I read somewhere that parking last year was free at the hotel for con goers.
 
The last couple of years, I've stayed at the hotel on the Friday night**, so I've been able to park at the hotel. (And I get to eat a decent breakfast before the fun starts. :))


** - The roads are so bad from Dorset to Bristol, that I'd have to set off at some ungodly hour (missing my breakfast, as eating early in the morning doesn't agree with me) to get there for the start of the Con. (Even on the Friday afternoon, it takes nearly three hours to reach the hotel, partly because of the roads, partly due to the horrendous traffic.) On the way home on Saturday evening, I've returned home via the M4, A34, M3, M27 and A31, which although much farther, takes about 2 hours and there's less chance of ending up in a hedge***.

*** - The A350 is supposed to be a trunk route, but one pair of sharp bends near Iwerne Minster also carries a warning about mud on the road; it's like being on a metalled farm track. (To avoid the A350, I made a detour through Salisbury last year, hoping the route between Southampton and Bristol might be up to scratch. It wasn't.)
 
All this road stuff you guys talk about boggles my mind. Can someone post a picture or two of the roads in question, so I can see what we're dealing with, here? :)
 
To be fair, the roads I generally drive on do allow two-way traffic (though there are quite a few roads in Dorset that resemble the one in Mouse's picture).
 
To be fair, the road I'd take to Bristol is a motorway. :D

I remember when we had the guy from our US office stay with us at work and each of us had to take him out for the day. He filmed the whole trip on the day out with me, including the car ride and he had to ask me if what we were travelling along was a road. I was like, I'm driving on it, aren't I?
 
Well, you know Americans -- we park in driveways and drive on parkways. :D

That one looks like a driveway to me, though. We do have mountain roads that only allow one-way traffic, but anything on a flat surface that looks like that is generally someone's driveway. Or a Forest Service road.

My grandpa would have been convinced that a road like that had to have a great fishing hole at the end of it. :D
 
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