Melissa invades England [update: London MELFAP MAY 2006 NOW!]

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In case I don't make it along tonight, here's a present for Melissa. And Julio.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 07:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/davidmccann/just.gif

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 07:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

i like that, it's funny...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 07:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

If you read his lips carefully you'll see that he's saying "Radiohead are going to release another album"

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 07:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

arf, arf, arf...

oh boy, i am currently torn 'tween QNI and BOUZE as i'm feeling a little tired this morning, but i'm sure bouze will be the winner :)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 08:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

bouze! despite having to get up ridiculous;y early tomorrow morning to get a train up to a conference.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 08:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

is this still the apple tree?

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 09:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

Is it the apple tree or the pakenham arms? (or are they the same)

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 09:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

Apple tree, I do believe

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 09:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Apple Tree. Though people are free to try a pint in the Pakenham for comparative purposes.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 09:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

which road is the apple tree? (I can't read that map)

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 09:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

it's on the corner of Mount Pleasant, Warner Street and Phoenix Place.

― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 09:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

thanks.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 09:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

very easy to get to from Farringdon, just walk up Farringdon road and then do a left before the Grauniad building, then do a right and at the end of the road just past the bridge you can see the apple tree.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 09:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

Chris's directions might not be the easiest to follow!

Walk up Farringdon Road, then turn left at the Printworkers (whetherspoons but on the corner) Ray Street, when you get to the next pub on the right (can't remember the name, sorry) turn right into Warner street, then carry on down there, under the bridge, and it's on your left.

Coming from the other direction, from Grey's Inn Road, you can either go down the slightly dodgy Mount Pleasant, or down Elm Street, which turns into Mount Pleasant, and it's on your right hand side, in the dip.

― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 09:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

As I said before, I'll be there relatively early, even after going shoe shopping, as I should be finishing work at 4.30. So I'll be back in there at around 5.30 onwards. Unless anyone else is going to get there ridiculously early... in which case I could go straight from work.

― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 09:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'll be there at any time between 6-7.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 09:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'll be there around quarter to six, I expect.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 10:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

5.30-5.45ish depending how long it takes me to get a 38/19 (although i could prolly walk in about ten mins i suppose, but there is a bit of a hill...)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 10:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'll be there aboot 8:30 after finding out about the cultural signifacance of non buried dead bodies in cinema (with reference to Death By Hanging, Guelwaar and Weekend At Bernies).

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 10:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

i work close but i may also have to work a bit late-ish, i don't know yet (clue: i have not yet left home!!)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 10:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

About half seven I reckon.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 12:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

Julio, you emailed me details of the Pakenham Arms rather than the Apple Tree! Which one is the FAP happening? At?

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 27 May 2003 13:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Apple Tree.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 13:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ta.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 27 May 2003 13:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

sorry marcello. the directions are given here.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 13:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hey I'm in Shepherd's Bush right now. How do I get to the Apple Tree, keeping in mind that I'm public transportation illiterate? I tried to get into Jools with no luck.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 13:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

get a hammersmith and city line (the pink one) to Farringdon. Or a Piccadily line (dark blue to Kings Cross (the follow directions posted above.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 14:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hammersmith and city all the way round to Farringdon then follow Vicky's instructions upthread, it's not the quickest, but it's most likely the easiest.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 14:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

Did you see the way they deliberately put Shepherds Bush on the Tube Map twice, just to be as confusing as possible?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 14:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

How much by cab?

― Melissa in London, Tuesday, 27 May 2003 14:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

melissa did u get my mob no.?

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 14:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

£20-ish by cab. £2.00 by tube. If you really want, get the tube and then get a cab from Farringdon.

Matt, it is on twice cos they are actually different stations. You have to get out and walk between the two of them.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 14:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

Too much!

― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 14:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

Cab is likely to be upwards of £20 I'd have thought (though I don't take cabs so that may be way off...it's unlikely to be much cheaper but it might be way more). If you're worried about the bit at the end you'd be much better getting the Central Line to Chancery Lane and hailing a cab there.

Matt: yes they should have thought of another name for one of the stations (e.g. calling the Central Line one Shepherds Bush Green).

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 14:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

I just really really really don't know how to use public transportation.

― Melissa in London, Tuesday, 27 May 2003 14:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

hobs lane!!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 14:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Don't get the circle and hammersmith, there are delays. Get the central line to Chancery lane. You want to go left when you get out the barriers, and then take the left hand exit. When you get to street level, go right and then take the immediate left, it should be Grey's Inn Rd. Walk up, past argos, cross over at the zebra crossing, continue straight on, until you get to the cross roads. Go straight across, then after the bag shop on your right hand side, there's an small road, that's Mount pleasant, go down there, follow the round round and down the hill, and eventually the apple tree will be on your right hand side.

― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 14:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

well think of it as a learning experience then :)

also if you ask one of the nice people in the blue uniforms at the station, they will help you.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 14:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm already more confused than you could possibly comprehend.

― Melissa in London, Tuesday, 27 May 2003 14:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Get the red line as far west as Chancery Lane, then just follow Vicky's directions, you should be fine.

But yes, the little blue people are wonderful.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 14:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

When I first came to london flat hunting I walked from the British Museum to South kensington because I went to the tube station and got scared and couldn't face it, and I couldn't afford a taxi.

It's fairly simple, the staff should be helpful, and there's only one line at the central line station, so it shouldn't be too complicated, unlike going to somewhere like kings cross.

― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 14:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

Melissa type people: Hmmm. Get a cab.

Non Melissa people: get text alerts on your mobile to decide which route to take if you have several choob lines to choose from. I am not spamming BTW. I am enthused.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 14:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

The problem with this being the mobiles don't work on the Underground.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 14:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

If you go to Shepherds Bush tube station (it's on the North East corner of Shepherds Bush Green) and ask one of the staff for some help, they'll explain it all. You need to buy a ticket to Chancery Lane, go to the platform labelled Eastbound and get on the train until it reaches Chancery Lane. Get back to street lavel and follow Vicky's directions or get a cab which shouldn't be more than £3. There's nothing ot be afraid of, honest!

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 14:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

ACK MELISSA DO NOT LISTEN TO ME I DON'T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EAST AND WEST AND AM A FULE.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 14:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

melissa have you anyone's mobile no. who will be going tonight?

(i am trying to work out how to persuade mine to inform me what it is! anyone reading who has it plz text me w.it - i will email you when i work it out)

(ie plz don't post it u wagZoRz)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 14:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

Melissa: this is what I'd do; pub is five minutes from my flat, walking SLOWLY. Take Central Line from Shepherd's Bush to Chancery Lane. Exit Chancery Lane using exits to Gray's Inn Road. Walk north on right-hand side of street until you reach a Pret a Manger on the corner. This is the junction with Clerkenwell Road. Get your bearings and cross to the far side of the street with the newsagent and Top Nosh café on the corner. The road forking between Clerkenwell Road and Gray's Inn Road, with big shady trees, is Rosebery Avenue. Turn right and walk down Rosebery Avenue and take the first left, Laystall Street. Walk down Laystall Street for about a block until you run in to Mount Pleasant. Go right on Mount Pleasant, pub is on corner on the right-hand side of road at the junction of Warner Street, past recycling bins, just after a series of really pretty Georgian buildings on same side of road.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 14:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

I went to the fancy a pint webpage:

The Apple Tree

address: 45 Mount Pleasant
WC1X 0AE
location: Clerkenwell
phone: 020 7837 2365

How to get there:
nearest tube(s):
Farringdon
Chancery Lane

how to find it:
From Farringdon, turn right out of the station, walk up Farringdon Road to Mount Pleasant (the junction with Roseberry Avenue). Cross Roseberry Avenue then turn left, walk down the road towards the pointy building (you'll know what we mean when you see it) in front of you, take the right hand side of it (Mount Pleasant) and you'll soon see the pub down the hill on the left. From Chancery Lane, walk up Gray's Inn Road to the junction with Roseberry Avenue, turn right and walk up Roseberry Avenue until you get to the pointy building on your left. Follow the instructions above.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 14:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

haha sorry suzy posted the directions. and its bettah too!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 14:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

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