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Nostalgia

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Mar 22, 2012
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Staying over on thursday, 2 couples, any recommendations for any decent pubs that might have a bit of life on a thursday night and ant good restaurants or good Curry houses?
 


METALMICKY

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Jan 30, 2004
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Should have made the effort to stay over the weekend for some real entertainment. Namely the local travellers having the usual rumble with the locally stationed squaddies!
 




Goldstone1976

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Apr 30, 2013
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Herts
Staying over on thursday, 2 couples, any recommendations for any decent pubs that might have a bit of life on a thursday night and ant good restaurants or good Curry houses?

The #1 restaurant in Colchester according to TA is the student-cheffed “Balkerne” at the Colchester Institute. I fear that might tell you all you need to know...
 






blue-shifted

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Feb 20, 2004
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a galaxy far far away
WOW!! :lolol:

Makes a change from I'm going to Florida etc :D

Well it does make a change.... in that the OP presumably genuinely wants advice and info and sees this as a better option than Trip Adviser or any other travel blogs. Usually these sort of threads are an incredibly thinly disguised ...."i'm going somewhere nice and I want some attention for it". If he's going to Colchester, i'm going to call, he's not showing off
 


crodonilson

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Jan 17, 2005
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Lyme Regis
My good friend Giles does some business in Colchester, I’ll ask him and let you know.
 


BN9 BHA

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Well it does make a change.... in that the OP presumably genuinely wants advice and info and sees this as a better option than Trip Adviser or any other travel blogs. Usually these sort of threads are an incredibly thinly disguised ...."i'm going somewhere nice and I want some attention for it". If he's going to Colchester, i'm going to call, he's not showing off

Absolutely.
 




AmexRuislip

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Feb 2, 2014
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Ruislip
Should have made the effort to stay over the weekend for some real entertainment. Namely the local travellers having the usual rumble with the locally stationed squaddies!

Those who live in glass houses shouldn't make such ludicrous quotes :laugh:
 




blue-shifted

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Feb 20, 2004
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Those who live in glass houses shouldn't make such ludicrous quotes :laugh:

Well I was last out there about 10 years ago, but one of the things I remember is that there are a couple of pubs in one end of town where there's always military police out in case the squaddies get carried away and a fight starts
 




AmexRuislip

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Feb 2, 2014
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Well I was last out there about 10 years ago, but one of the things I remember is that there are a couple of pubs in one end of town where there's always military police out in case the squaddies get carried away and a fight starts

It's the same with all army garrison towns.
Whilst I was on a resettlement course at Aldershot a while back, a few of us ended up in a strippers pub, where a few locals were also there.
Cut a long story short, as soon as the dolly bird got down to her grundies, bottles started to fly between HM Forces and the local inbred.
I got out before it went mad :D
 


BN9 BHA

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Jul 14, 2013
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It's the same with all army garrison towns.
Whilst I was on a resettlement course at Aldershot a while back, a few of us ended up in a strippers pub, where a few locals were also there.
Cut a long story short, as soon as the dolly bird got down to her grundies, bottles started to fly between HM Forces and the local inbred.
I got out before it went mad :D

Dolly bird, when was this, 1974? :D
 








Questions

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Oct 18, 2006
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Worthing
F..uck.ing hell Ive just realised he said Colchester. I read it as Chichester and thought Christ that’s grim..
 




Raskolnikov

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Aug 13, 2014
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Wivenhoe
Staying over on thursday, 2 couples, any recommendations for any decent pubs that might have a bit of life on a thursday night and ant good restaurants or good Curry houses?

Lived there for 5 years. If you get chance go to the Station in Wivenhoe (you guessed it opposite a station). It is 3 mins on the train from Colchester and is down by the river. The Rose and Crown (a Greene King) is down by the river and is a beautiful spot when the weather is good, the station is a proper good old boozer, no food, cigs over the counter and the such. The atmosphere is amazing weekend evenings.
 









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