The talk of a forum meet brought back bad memories

I was involved in a forum taking case to court on unfair bank charges ( actually quite proud that I helped a man save his house from possession)
Anyway we had a meet in Birmingham - I travelled there by train - got lost trying to find the hotel but eventually walked into a room of strangers - The meet was ok

but conversation does not flow so easily as posting does - and then I had to stay in the rooms above the bar on my own - and all of the corridors had locking doors which I though was a bit scary .
I could not sleep as it was in the middle of Birmingham and very noisy and lots of sirens - very loud sirens .
I went to go down to meet the others for breakfast to find that I was actually in the middle of a crime scene as there had been a stabbing in the breakfast room in the small hours ( hence all the sirens) blood on the floor and everything . I was then ushered out on the street, most of which was taped off - and somehow managed to meet up with some of the forum so we could find somewhere to calm down - but it was very un-nerving.