Fortnightly drinks in Heidelberg or Mannheim

It looks like more and more English speakers and/or expats (or those with English fluency) from the Rhein-Neckar triangle are turning to Toytown for some fun and entertainment. And what better way to get out of the house, meet some folks and fight off the fall/winter blues than with a regular meet-up?

I suggest every second Tuesday night, alternating between Heidelberg and Mannheim (or Ludwigshafen if anyone knows a good convenient place to go), anywhere in between or wherever in the Rhein-Neckar triangle. I'll organize the first coupla' events; thereafter, it might be cool to get some voting going on and then leave it up to whomever who made the suggestion that gets the most votes, to make a reservation. Let's hope we can get a fancy sign-up sheet and get old discussions archived.

Please note your interest here!

This can turn into a weekly event, but to get the ball rolling, I'll start with bi-weekly.

Update: See the photos from one recent meet up.

Every fortnight the old posts are moved to the Tuesday drinks discussion archive.

hi there,

I am a canadian phd student in HD. I'd love to join you guys. When is your next meeting?

@astro_kelly: We meet fortnightly (sort of) alternating between Mannheim and HD. Although every Tue. some of us meet up at Murphy's Law - the Irish pub - near Mannheim Hauptbahnhof for a pub-quiz.

Check out the pub quiz in Mannheim thread or keep an eye on this one for our next meetup

Is anyone up for the Thurs 4th or Fri 5th of September doing drinks in Mannheim?

JodieJo: count me in...

4th Sept. is good for me. 5th isn't.

Here are some ideas for places we could go too.

Altefeuerwache cafe
Platzhaus
Flic Flac
Cafe Memo

let me know what people think.

i don't think either day is good for us but we'll see if we can work something out since it's been AGES since we've seen any of you!

We've got visitors that weekend so doubt we'll be able to make it. Hope you have a great time anyway! We'll be back strong for the next HD meetup though =)
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Bring the visitors along

Hi -I am an Australian and new to Heidelberg and would love to meet some other english speakers. Will keep an eye out for where you will be next Thursday and try to come along if that's ok.. thanks

You're welcome to join us .. the more the merrier

All in the area... Do not forget about Bike Day this Sunday!

Any of these places are fine for me as long as it's not too hard to get to them from the Hauptbahnhof. I would also prefer to meet on Thursday

So who's planning to attend?

I'm new to Heidelberg to can't comment on the best place, but am keen to come along and enjoy some english speaking!

We can't make thursday and friday would depend on how jet lagged my better half is. Not too likely to see us methinks. Have fun.

Maybe I'll join you guys sometime when I'm back in Heidelberg. Only 4 weeks now...

ok so we'll make it Thursday unless no one can make it.

Anyone have any preference where we go?
The place i posted earlier are either in the city or at Alte Messe platz ( you can get there on the straßenbahns numbers 1,2,3,4) its a little nicer there as its near the Neckar.

All the places i know direct by HBF are expensive and not very good food, but if some knows somewhere then let me know.

OK. Let's make it Thursday at the Altefeuerwache Cafe; say around 7:30 PM?

Here's the tentative list of attendees.
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JodieJo + 1
Ferkel + ??
1tennisplyr
Ainslie

Anyone else?

I'm not sure if anyone is coming with me.

for anyone thats been here as long as me it used to be the boomchuck bar. lets just hope the weather is good now on thursday.

sounds good to me - am looking forward to mIt'see you then.

i won't know for sure about thursday til thursday but if i can make it, i will.

Followed by "Steamboat Switzerland"?

http://www.altefeuerwache.com/programm/ter...witzerland.html

@jodie: Ah I assumed Joerg might join you. What about Tom?

Here's the tentative list of attendees.
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JodieJo
Ferkel
1tennisplyr
Ainslie
Sunstriped (+1?)... maybe

Anyone else? What about Ommthree? and Tom & Nina?

Joerg normally plays tennis on thursdays.

TommyGun says he's a maybe

How come he's playing tennis on thursday when tennisplyr's going to be at the Altefeuerwache cafe? ;-)

Hey he's the BF i have no control

hi one and all
An odd question I know but...I was just wondering if anyone was in the Dubliner last Thursday 28th August for the quiz?! It was my maiden night out to hopefully meet people but I must say it wasn't as easy as I thought it'd be (the quiz and meeting people!) ... I'm contemplating wearing an "A" board next time saying "can i be your friend?"... I did talk to one person - possibly the only German person in there and he was feeling far too competitive to talk to me!! Any how, I'm not back in HD until October now but it'd be cool to hear from anyone that is out and about. I briefly mentioned before that I work in video so would love to hear from anyone doing something similar or even anyone who would potentially use my services.

@Surrey78: I don't live in HD, but I expect we'll still be having our meetups / pub quizzes when you get here. You're welcome to join us then

For those not from Mannheim the tram stop you need is Altefeuerwache as i said before 1,2,3&4 all stop there.en

See you tomorrow, just hope it stops pouring down by then.

anyone that does not know who we are PM me for a contact number.

So, are we on? is it just the 3 of us (JodieJo, TP, and Me).

TP, I do not have your phone number any more...

I'm going to come along too - hope to find you there!

Tommyguns coming too, he's just forgot his password so can't log on himself. Men!!

Has sunstriped said yes or no yet?

I think not. Olives is proabaly working...

By the way... how is the food at this place?

quiet good

typical bar cafe menu, i.e salad, paninis, flammkuchen, schnitzel etc

So tonight there is:

Ainslie
Tenisplyr
Ferkel
Jodiejo - maybe with Joerg depending on his man flu
Tommygun

Any other lurkers? or ones i forgot?

sorry for the REALLY late notice! today was - is - really hectic and i won't be able to make it.

Bah, I checked this too late (just seeing it now) and I won't be able to make it this evening, gang.

Thanks JJ for letting me know (and being gracious to me for getting it late yet again) and hopefully the next time I'll be ready.

I'm away in a fortnight, but how about Heidelberg on Thurs 25th Sept (+/-1 day)...

Thurs Sep 25th in HD should work for me... will know more closer to the date.

As most of you know we'll be in India until 5th Oct

We can probably come, but like marquie8, we'll know better as the date approaches.