Any idea what's happening on this? A weekend needs to be picked soon - the last weekend in July seems as good as any if we're picking arbitrary weekends!

Venue: Sigmatel towers has a large amount of car parking, 20-or-so places of which are ours. Should be no problem for more cars there too at the weekend as nobody will be in any of the other offices. Should be fine for the competitions, and also the office is right there which means toilets, kitchen, etc are available too. Enough open space for Patrick to vapourise things.

Hotel: Travelodge central cambridge. Fairly soulless, but new & clean & £56/night at the moment (friday & saturday night) is pretty good going for a hotel actually in cambridge. They even deal with group bookings (...but no discount...) on their website. Less than 5 minutes walk from the venue. Parking is pay-for, I think, but you could just park at the venue.

Food: Could book out pretty much the whole of Al Casbah on mill road. Algerian cuisine, which means a huge charcoal grill and lots of meat (in the true ribs tradition). Starters, main & wine is around 20 quid per person. 15 minutes walk from the hotel, with lots of pubs on the way.

Morning after food: hotel or BLD's on mill road

Possibility of a big barbie in my garden, weather permitting...

Non-pub-related activities: punting!

Other sights: lots of Cambridge to see, all walking distance from the hotel.

Comments?

Hugo