This is a page detailing just why I am having such a blinding time in this city and for that matter at this university

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I swear this place is an alcoholic's paradise. Yes folks that's why I'm having such a great time here. There are loads of top places to get slaughtered in Leeds. Here's my brief and probably incredibly inaccurate guide to some of the one's I've graced with my presence:

: Home on a Friday night to Back-to-Basics, one of the best club nights in Leeds. Bollocks to that they charge real money to get in. We go on a Wednesday night when it's just 3.50 on the door (with the ubiquitous student card) and a pound a bottle all night. The pleasure rooms consist of a bar/chill out area with cult/funk/whatever type music, the basement, the ground floor, and in the loft the main room. Here on the past few Wednesdays we have heard the likes of Jon Pleased Wimmin', LTJ Bookem, and Brandon Block. It is usually packed, especially when Bookem was on, and is a blinding night out.

Club Europa: Also known as the sweat factory. Home to Up Yer Ronsen, which is increadibly overated by all accounts. Has galleries overlooking the dance floor from where people have the lovely habit of lobbing the last little bit of their pint (and glass) into the dancers. Fucking good job the glasses are plastic! Cheasy music on student night but still a good laugh.

The Leeds University Union: The place. The old bar: Allegedly the 2^nd largest alcohol outlet in Europe (after the Munich beer festival), definately the largest student bar in the country. This place is huge, and is always packed if you ever get a sit stay there, no matter what. Also very cheap. The other bars: I can't be bothered to go into all the other bars suffice to say that they are all O.K. and do loads of different nights. The refectory: You want to know how club mad this place is? They even turn the dining room into a venue. Not as bad as it sounds.

The Leeds Met. Union: Well it is very big and they do do very cheap alcohol nights (like O.T.T.) And seems especially fond of cheap triple vodkas, but I am not yet convinced. I just don't like sticking to the floor as I walk around.

The Dry Dock: Top pub. It aint cheep (well it would be if you put it in the middle of Southend but don't worry about that), but the prices are bearable, especially when you consider that while you drink your beer you could be playing four foot high Jenga (you know the game where you have to pull the blocks out of the tower), Ker-Plunk with knitting needles, connect-4 with pieces the size of small plates, table football, or most popular of all Sega Rally. They're all free apart from Rally obviously. They also have a roof that opens and a huge flavoured vodka bar. Oh I nearly forgot to mention the who place is built to look like a canal barge.

The Bricklayer's Arms: Fairly normal pub that does a brilliant quiz on a Sunday (which we won).

The University

It sounds strange to say it but the Leeds university campus is very impressive. The huge buildings and general classic architecture of the Parkinson building and Brotherton (main) library are very impressive and give you the impression that you are part of a grand tradition (which you are arseing up by not doing any work).

More importantly than this it is possible to walk through the majority of the university buildings without going outside when it's raining via a load of connecting walkways.

Oh yeah and the course isn't that bad either.

Our Flats

Fairly new, most things still work, I can park my car right outside, what more could you ask. Well you could ask for a few less people to call for the people on the top floor (we're 4 floors down, by the phone). You could also ask for the office to be open a bit more so that we can get our post, but there you go we're just being fussy now. Most importantly our flats are 5 minutes walk (yes I learnt how to do that since I got here) from the university and 15 from the centre of the city. Oh and the biggest cab fare we've been able to run up is 3 quid.

My Mates

Loads of top blokes. For anyone who doesn't know Stuart Gunn lives in the flat upstairs from me. Other than him there are loads of top blokes here but I wont do a guide to them as they didn't like the last one.

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Last Updated 2 December 1996 by Ian Holroyd