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Access to Turner Exhibit

  • 30-11-2013 2:04pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 1,271 ✭✭✭


    Has anyone been to see this yet? Attempted to go last week but was told that there is a sign up to say there isn't parking available at Ebrington and we were to park at Quayside and walk over the Peace Bridge! Can anyone tell me if it is true? Does a relaxing afternoon spent wandering around the exhibition have to begin and end with an exhausting walk to access it?
    Cannot find any warnings about lack of parking on Turner internet site.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 7,431 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    annascott wrote: »
    Has anyone been to see this yet? Attempted to go last week but was told that there is a sign up to say there isn't parking available at Ebrington and we were to park at Quayside and walk over the Peace Bridge! Can anyone tell me if it is true? Does a relaxing afternoon spent wandering around the exhibition have to begin and end with an exhausting walk to access it?
    Cannot find any warnings about lack of parking on Turner internet site.

    An exhausting walk?! Are you serious? There's no parking at Ebrington but you may get lucky and find a space on Browning Drive. Otherwise, it's an enjoyable fifteen minute walk across the Peace Bridge from Foyleside.

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  • Administrators, Sports Moderators Posts: 21,676 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭smashey


    Try parking behind the Ulster Bank on Spencer Road if there are any spaces. It's a five minute walk from there.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,691 ✭✭✭failinis


    Penfailed wrote: »
    An exhausting walk?! Are you serious? There's no parking at Ebrington but you may get lucky and find a space on Browning Drive. Otherwise, it's an enjoyable fifteen minute walk across the Peace Bridge from Foyleside.

    Thats what I was thinking, its really not far, unless the OP has a medical problem.

    Try Browning Drive as some suggested, or even the waterside library car park.


  • Registered Users Posts: 960 ✭✭✭guttenberg


    Penfailed wrote: »
    An exhausting walk?! Are you serious? There's no parking at Ebrington but you may get lucky and find a space on Browning Drive. Otherwise, it's an enjoyable fifteen minute walk across the Peace Bridge from Foyleside.

    Out of curiosity do you know how you go about getting access to that car park in Ebrington? there's always plenty of cars about anytime I've been there and I doubt it's all CoC/Venue staff.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,271 ✭✭✭annascott


    Penfailed wrote: »
    An exhausting walk?! Are you serious? There's no parking at Ebrington but you may get lucky and find a space on Browning Drive. Otherwise, it's an enjoyable fifteen minute walk across the Peace Bridge from Foyleside.

    That would depend on what you are wearing on your feet and how much you care about your hair! Also, what if it rains??


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,271 ✭✭✭annascott


    Taxi from Quayside it is then....:p


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  • Registered Users Posts: 7,431 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    guttenberg wrote: »
    Out of curiosity do you know how you go about getting access to that car park in Ebrington? there's always plenty of cars about anytime I've been there and I doubt it's all CoC/Venue staff.

    As far as I know it is a staff car-park...for Ilex/Culture Company/Venue staff. I've only ever accessed it once and that was because I was a passenger in a car where the fella I was with was working backstage at Status Quo.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 960 ✭✭✭guttenberg


    Have you's all been to this? if not you should definitely go. It's surprisingly small and it's the weirdest exhibition I've ever been to.:D


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,271 ✭✭✭annascott


    Went a while ago and going back on Sunday as it is the last day. It's all a bit 'emperors new clothes' and the work on display is so diverse that it is highly unlikely that anyone will like everything, but I'm just star struck by the actual Turner Prize exhibition coming over here from London. I will miss it when it goes.

    Pity about the difficulty of access to the location.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 7,431 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    annascott wrote: »
    Pity about the difficulty of access to the location.

    Yeah, I still don't think access difficult.

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    Gigs '23 - Stiff Little Fingers, The Wood Burning Savages, Bob Log III, David Kitt, Ludovico Einaudi, DADDY LONG LEGS, The Prodigy, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Electric Picnic, The Murder Capital, PJ Harvey, The Bonnevilles (w/Amy Montgomery, Rews, New Pagans), The Undertones (w/Buzzcocks), And So I Watch You From Afar

    Gigs '24 - Ben Ottewell and Ian Ball (Gomez), The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Smashing Pumpkins/Weezer, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Electric Picnic, Ride, PJ Harvey, Pixies, Therapy?, IDLES(x2)



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