New Years Eve events...

[StellaGirl]

Anyone got any good suggestions for something to do New Years Eve this year. Was supposed to be going to a warmer country but change of plans...

Last year I slept through the midnight hour so need to make up for it this year.

Few requirements are:
1. Must have to dress up (excuse for new outfit and new shoes)
2. Something that involves food (I love my food and am a greedy pig)
3. Lots of champagne.


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[BustinAround]

Have you considered going to a "new years party"? From what I hear, you get to do all those things

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[Sybarite]

Medieval ball at Bunratty Castle.

John

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[ccscott49]

Get yer bum up to Londonium wiv us lot in richmond and old isleworth, garuanteed to be a great night, you can dress up in anything you want! You'll be out of it before the morning anyway! Dartmouth is a good blast! Fancy dress!

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[ccscott49]

Do they have a new years one? Been there but didnt know they did that, it would be great!

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[Becky]

Methinks you could get some very interesting offers!
No local pubs with NYE parties round your way?


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[StellaGirl]

Done the local pub thing before just fancied something different and somewhere different.....

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[Ohdrat]

Fireworks at Dornoch then First Footing..

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[tome]

Thats how I felt a few years ago. Tired of lock-ins at the local costing £50 to be squeezed into a large crowd in your bib and tucker, lining the pockets of the landlord after a previous unblemished year of worhip at their costly altars.

Started to go sailing at NY a few years back and we love it. Go to one of the SC bashes in Cowes, and you'll find a welcome without tickets in every pub along the way. And you'll get to dress-up.

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[cgull]

I am going to the Ship Inn at NossMayo....wonderful place!

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[dralex]

Get a group of friends, all make one course of a meal, decide on fine wine and sparkles and dress up as well. Ignore the fact it costs less, I just think it's more fun and you can play the music you want to hear. Then go for a sail the next day to welcome in the New Year.

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[Gordonmc]

On a tangent...

I always have a hankering to do something different for New Year but more often than not end up doing the usual.... get up, drink in the bells, fall over and spend the next day recovering.
Of course this procedure can be carried out in some nice locations. Four years ago it was on a beach in India. In youth, on top of mountains or in bothies.
But for the most memorable I have to go back to the late 70's when a group of equally daft people decided to first foot the lighthouse keepers on the Ailsa Craig.
For the uninitiated Ailsa is a beehive shaped rock 12 mines off the coast of Ayrshire, where the Firth of Clyde meets the Irish Sea, also known as Paddy's milestone.
The isle is now uninhabited, apart from a few thousand gannets and a handfull of puffins (hopefully) but when the light was manned it was home to four keepers on rotation. So it was that on the Hogmanay in question our hardy band turned up at Girvan harbour with our carry-outs to meet up with the skipper of a fishing boat who would take us over.
It was already blowing to F5 when we arrived and the wind speed increased, bringing horizontal snow. So as we sat in the cuddy listening the ice clink on the hull as it came down-river the skipper decided he'd had enough and was off home for a kip. He said he would see us in the morning if we were still keen.
By this time we had started on the carry-out so sensible things were not on the agenda. We stayed on board the whole night listening to the gale. And the next day. And next night. The carry-out had to be replenished.
We finally got to the Craig on the 3rd of January.
I am quite relieved to say I couldn't get away with it these days.

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