Ray Mears talk in Birmingham - Outdoors Show in March

[Jodie]

Saturday 17th March 2007
Ordnance Survey Outdoors Show 2007
Ray Mears at 10 am in the World Theatre at the NEC Birmingham.

I think it's free but you have to get to the ticket booth pretty sharpish to get the
free tickets; presumably there will be people camping out a la Wimbledon
without considering it much of a hardship

Hope people enjoy it if they go.

http://www.theoutdoorsshow.co.uk/page.cfm/Action=Seminars/CategoryID=1
http://www.theoutdoorsshow.co.uk/page.cfm/link=6

 

[Goose]

I have been to a couple of outdoor shows, the tickets are issued on a first come first served basis, but are(were) free. I will be at this one, had to miss the last couple because it has clashed with a scouting event, "volounteering doesn't pay!"

 

[Womble]

I was - from a perspective of someone looking simply at camping and accessories - really quite dissapointed by the last outdoor show. There was a lot of stuff for the specialised outdoor activities, and loads of stalls for countries selling themeselves as a travel destination; but there seemed very little to cover folks just wanting to go camping.

Not only that, but I could only find one trader selling Thermarests (Blacks) and they had appeared to have hiked the price of the only one they had in stock. Bah!

On the other hand, against all experiance I'm quite an optimist; so I'll probably be going again this year!

 

[dommyracer]

Had a quick look through the site and there's some interesting exhibitors.

One of the things that caught my eye was the 'Survival Skills' demos being done by the Girl Guides....