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The BBR port walk will be held on two dates again this year, Thursday 26th and Friday 27th November 2015.

I shan't be there, won't be able to get back from Antarctica in time.

I've got my ticket for the Thursday.

Please buy me a ticket for the Thursday (I haven’t been invited, and can’t find it on the website.) Thank you.

I don't expect to be able to make the date for BBR this year, as I'll be at Axel's Fonseca tasting that weekend.

jdaw1 wrote:Please buy me a ticket for the Thursday (I haven’t been invited, and can’t find it on the website.) Thank you.

I have requested two tickets - you can grab one of those assuming I get them

flash_uk wrote:I have requested two tickets - you can grab one of those assuming I get them

Thank you.

jdaw1 wrote:Please buy me a ticket for the Thursday (I haven’t been invited, and can’t find it on the website.) Thank you.

Ticket for you confirmed, Julian.

Help. Can anyone advise, are tickets still available..?

djewesbury wrote:Help. Can anyone advise, are tickets still available..?

They are showing available on the BBR website here.

Still showing 16 as available for the Thursday night.

I now have my ticket secured.
Learning points from last year.
Get there early, before doors open, to maximise sampling time. Greet JDAW at head of queue.
When interesting talk starts, dash to back so talk augments rather than pauses essential sampling.

DaveRL wrote:Learning points from last year.

You will be offered a glass of sparkles. Decline.

jdaw1 wrote:

DaveRL wrote:Learning points from last year.

You will be offered a glass of sparkles. Decline.

I thought that it was a very nice glass. Accept.

LGTrotter wrote:

jdaw1 wrote:

DaveRL wrote:Learning points from last year.

You will be offered a glass of sparkles. Decline.

I thought that it was a very nice glass. Accept.

I liked it too.
But I understand that it distracts from the main reason to go to the PortWalk.

Last year I accepted, and it was certainly a nice enough glass, but I think this year I will go straight for the port. Single minded focus!

As of this morning, there are only two tickets left for Thursday night and 21 for the Friday.

AHB wrote:As of this morning, there are only two tickets left for Thursday night and 21 for the Friday.

Only one left for Thursday, as I've bought one myself.

I managed to get 2 tickets for this on the Friday evening and had hoped to take Mrs D along, but she is no longer available. So a ticket for Friday is on offer to fellow folk if you would like to join me?

Who is going to this on the Thursday? I received an email from BBR asking who I want to be seated with and who my guest is.

Am I bringing a guest? If so, please could my guest remind me who they are?

AHB wrote:Who is going to this on the Thursday? I received an email from BBR asking who I want to be seated with and who my guest is.

Am I bringing a guest? If so, please could my guest remind me who they are?

I got a similar email - I assumed the guest prompt occurred because I bought two tickets. My guest is some guy Wiseman....
I assumed the stuff about seating and dietary requirements was just a standard paragraph on their events emails, relevant for the dinners they run, but in this case irrelevant (unless the port walk format has been changed).

flash_uk wrote:

AHB wrote:Who is going to this on the Thursday? I received an email from BBR asking who I want to be seated with and who my guest is.

Am I bringing a guest? If so, please could my guest remind me who they are?

I got a similar email - I assumed the guest prompt occurred because I bought two tickets. My guest is some guy Wiseman....
I assumed the stuff about seating and dietary requirements was just a standard paragraph on their events emails, relevant for the dinners they run, but in this case irrelevant (unless the port walk format has been changed).

I agree...but I have a vague recollection that I bought two tickets and passed one on to someone else. I just can't remember who!

I'm assuming the "who do you want to sit with?" questions was rhetorical and that we will be free to stand with whom we wish.

AHB wrote:Who is going to this on the Thursday? I received an email from BBR asking who I want to be seated with and who my guest is.

Am I bringing a guest? If so, please could my guest remind me who they are?

That would be me Alex (you kindly secured the last ticket then available whilst we were both present at an earlier tasting-payment having been remitted subsequently)

idj123 wrote:

AHB wrote:Who is going to this on the Thursday? I received an email from BBR asking who I want to be seated with and who my guest is.

Am I bringing a guest? If so, please could my guest remind me who they are?

That would be me Alex (you kindly secured the last ticket then available whilst we were both present at an earlier tasting-payment having been remitted subsequently)

Excellent. Thank you for reminding me. I will let Berry Brothers know who you are.

I emailed BBR and they confirmed this event is standing as usual; apparently a large man from Streatham will make an announcement later in the evening that a thing called the Port Forum exists and that its members are all really nice people with excellent cellars.

djewesbury wrote:I emailed BBR and they confirmed this event is standing as usual; apparently a large man from Streatham will make an announcement later in the evening that a thing called the Port Forum exists and that its members are all really nice people with excellent cellars.

I will ask permission to make such an announcement, and iff permission is granted, will then do as you say.