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Inside Information in Ipswich, Suffolk*

Ipswich, Suffolk Hookup Spots and Stuff Only Locals Know

Hook-up Spots (That hallowed spot where everyone hangs around with their mates dreaming of the time when they can get into the pubs or clubs - a bench, a corner: you name it.)

• Cardinal Park
• Not really hippy hill anymore... i wish people would tidy up after themselves! it's hard to find good hook-up spots in ipswich (same as it's hard to find decent places to go!) Cromwell's I guess, at the skate park.
• My mates and I often hang about in costa coffee as it has a relaxed atmosphere and sells excellent coffee. We also like to muck about in christchurch park when its hot and sunny. Another place we often go is cromwell, We tend to coaxe people into giving us their pot, which is always fun. Oh.. and outside the buttermarket/tourist information, where there are benches... we often sit here and have a crafty fag when we are suppose to be in college, lol. McDonalds is also a popular hangout, although I got beaten up there, so I wouldnt advise going there after 5pm!.
• tower ramparts shopping centre and mc donalds good hangouts for 13yrs and under but when they hit 14 they usually start hardcore clubbing.Skate park local hangout for greebos and townies alike.More observers than actual skaters tho.Nice orderly queuing for a go on the ramps!
• hippie hill's OK every one goes there but its fucking cold in the winter also the bird reserve, and there are always peple at cromwell.
• The chippy on old road
• anywhere just talk to people.
• Its gotta be hippie hill, and Cromwells good too, it's not dieing, summer is here!
• hippy hill certainly was the place to be a few years ago ( i don't wish to appear like a suit)but now i think it has gone slowly downhill. we never used to leave busted bottles laying around and cans of butane, there was some respect for the people to follow you, and the dear old park keepers , but now when i walk my dogs over there the place is disgusting, please if you visit this hallowed place treat it nice and take your crap home.
• Well, out side maccy d's there will either be a) the badboy tracksuits and smoking crew or B)gangs of girls wit their hair scraped back into buns with denim jackets on or c)both (most common) if you go to Christchurch park of a weekend night there will be peple with alchohol primarily bought from......... we'll call it just "bolton"for now shall we?
• Terry the tree in Bourne Park. Summer days, playing football, using terry the tree as our hallowed goalpost. Those were the days....
• there r usually some pretty cool people on hippy hill in the park, in the summer there's massive crowds of people, and loads of pot and beer! Cromwell square used 2 b swarming with people, but now it's just a bunch of skaky drug dealers (maybe it'll liven up again when summer returns...*sniff*) there r usually sum cool people outside hoax, and if u want 2 meet sum REAL weirdos then go 2 the town hall steps-i saw a 10 yr old boy dressed up as a terrorist there the other day.
• Many gimps and deviants hang around outside the wolsey theartre, only go there if you smell shocking.
• On "Grandads Wall" In ashdale road, or near the virgin cinema in greyfriaz
• Ipswich is a really cool place. There are shops for everyone from the classy shopper to the Hippy chick. It really isn't rough at all. I og there everyday and the shops are reasonably priced, the food outlets are anundant and there are two Bowling Allies, 2 cinemas, a huge library, a massive swimming pool and Christchusrch Park is just stunning!
• Portman Road (and I don't mean the fabulous Ipswich Town ground!). Did I just say Ipswich were fabulous, I'm sorry I must have been thinking of someone else. What was I thinking!!!
• When the weather is good, Christcurch park. Either on 'Hippie-Hill' or in the wood of the bird reserve. One tends to find lots of stoned musicians playing under the trees. "One more journey to the woods, The holes where spirits hide. It's a never-ending battle For a peace thats always torn, Come in she said I'll give ya, Shelter from the storm." (B Dylan - Shelter from the Storm)
• Seems to be the Buttermarket, which is rife with confused adolescents drinking out of brown paperbags and laughing too much before they start harrassing passers-by. AVOID the lane next to the Buttermarket (which leads from the Ancient house to the Old Cattlemarket Bus Station) as much as is possible on Friday and Saturday nights after 5.00pm. Not a nice place to be...
• Skaters: Clayton Sports between 11 and 1 Saturday, or the big Halfords on Sunday at 1.

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