{"id":48,"date":"2004-08-08T14:44:15","date_gmt":"2004-08-08T14:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/applecrumble.wordpress.com\/2004\/08\/08\/birmingham-stag-do\/"},"modified":"2020-08-08T14:59:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T14:59:09","slug":"birmingham-stag-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2004\/08\/08\/birmingham-stag-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham stag do"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'>Pictures from my second stag do, in Birmingham, are now up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notmyface.com\/\" title=\"NotMyFace.com\">NotMyFace.com<\/a>.  Cheers Mat (and cheers Trevor for organising everything)!<\/p>\n<p>We had a great day out, with karting at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandprixkarting.co.uk\/setframe.htm?\/birmingham-wheels-msa-circuit.php\" title=\"Birmingham Wheels\">Birmingham Wheels<\/a> followed by comedy, drinks and dancing at <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20081203234135\/http:\/\/www.jongleurs.com:80\/clubs\/bir\/intro.html\" title=\"Jongleurs, Birmingham\">Jongleurs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham is a great place for a stag weekend as there are so many bars and clubs &#8211; it also helps that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelodge.co.uk\/travelodge\/location.php?site_no=551\" title=\"Birmingham Central Travelodge\">Travelodge<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accorhotels.com\/accorhotels\/fichehotel\/gb\/nov\/1077\/fiche_hotel.shtml\" title=\"Novotel Birmingham Centre\">Novotel<\/a> are located directly opposite each other &#8211; there is no shortage of accommodation at the heart of it all.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully some of the hen weekend will appear on NotMyFace.com soon&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:6855,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.notmyface.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20190818105603\\\/http:\\\/\\\/notmyface.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-05 16:28:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-13 18:19:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-23 13:23:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 03:12:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 12:47:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 19:29:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-08 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Cheers Mat (and cheers Trevor for organising everything)! We had a great day out, with karting at Birmingham Wheels followed by comedy, drinks and dancing at Jongleurs. Birmingham is a great place for a stag weekend as there are so many bars [&hellip;]<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-social","7":"h-entry","9":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2004\/07\/09\/first-stag-weekend\/","url_meta":{"origin":48,"position":0},"title":"First stag weekend","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"9 July 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Just a quick post to say that Mat has now put photos from my first stag weekend up on NotMyFace. 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