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Otta

Otta

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Yeah, the original old skool Uplands was turned in to the uplands you describe around that time. The food was pretty shite.


Also would agree that by then the foresters was pretty grim, but it had been better previous to that.


There were a bunch of local lads who had basically been barred from pretty much everywhere else, so the foresters became their base camp in the last years of it's existence.

KidKruger

KidKruger

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I got challenged in the Forresters toilets by a guy, simply because "you DON'T come here often do you ?"..


And once the barman said buy me a drink, I said no way, so he helped himself to a short and mixer and added it to my bill and gave change reflecting me buying him that drink. He was a a rough looking MoFo and I had no appetite for it that evening, wanting to play pool, so just said cheers.

Annette Curtain

Annette Curtain

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StraferJack Wrote:

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> It's all golden compared to the temporary

> pedestrian bridge that was at Denmark Hill tho


I LOVE that bridge, specially when viewed from a DD bus


It's an Art piece

reeko

reeko

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Derry City- I grew up there and it was a fab place for a youngster. Live music was endemic, the populaiton was young and up for a laugh - a small matter of the occassional riot, but added spice. Then an unfortunate side effect of the very welcome peace process was that all the scum bags got comfortable and the town centre became a violent cesspit of a weekend.


Now the city is gearing up for 2013 city of culture. New and very beautiful bridge, riverside opened up, central square looking very nice, great and very reasonable new restaurants, and all this despite massive unemployment and general hardship.


In short, was good, got a bit crap for a while, now looking like it is heading for good again. Well worth a visit - hands down more interesting than Belfast and much less expensive than Dublin. Do it people.

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