Traditionally, Ciao Meets have mainly fallen into two camps: the pub meet and the theme park meet. Of all the Ciao meets to have happened thus far, the vast majority (if not all of them) have come under one of those two banners. I much prefer the pub meet scenario purely because I dislike theme parks with a passion and not because the pub way is necessarily "better". I find that pubs offer a good way of getting a lot of members into one spot and once the initial introductions are made, the conversation usually starts to flow (and pretty freely too, given the number of 'strangers' in one place) ...
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