The Bristol show is very interesting in that Bristol is quite a small UK town in the west of the UK, just past Bath, Bath is famous because it is a Roman Spar town (hot springs) and has some wonderful Regency Architecture. Both Bath and Bristol have resonable universities (after Oxford and Cambridge, Meridian is in Huntingdon which is very near to Cambridge).
The Bristol show is held in a hotel, just one! that is very small by US standards, but is very much part of the HI-FI calendar in the UK.
I will certainly be going.
Martin.