Hello and welcome to another blog series! Join the dream team of Aaron, Liz and myself as we drive around France and a little bit of Belgium in the name of coasters! We start in Essex as I drive to Aarons to hop into his van and head down south to pick Liz up, ready to catch the train over to France. As you can see, myself and Aaron managed to match outfits! As soon as we drove off of the train we headed straight for a fair in Calais. If you’ve read one of my coaster blogs before I’m sure you can imagine the delights that lay ahead. 837: Start as you mean to go on, plus one! 838: La Souris This was actually interesting because it’s weird but it wasn’t good. It was rough and the seat almost ended up inside me. There was a third coaster (Dragon) at this fair but it was closed, so we grabbed a pint, a pizza and left! Best fair pizza I’ve ever had! I asked for a pils but was given a 7% Belgium beer instead, what was the universe trying to tell me? ...
Away days are back! Cambridge kicked off their away campaign at Bromley, somewhere we had been just a few months prior at the tail end of the previous season. A tough, physical and yet winnable game awaited us just outside of the capital. I met up with John and DJ at Kings Cross and we headed straight to London Victoria via the Victoria line. Here we had lunch and some pints at The Willow Walk, which I initially thought was a new spoons tick for me! Turns out I’d been there before. A pint of Oakham Sun City and a curry was just the job We spoke to some fellow U’s fans before heading to Bromley and there was excitement amongst the fan base. Bromley’s stadium is a short walk from Bromley South station but you must get there early. Bromley have learned nothing from last season and the whole operation is chaotic and slow. We always aim to arrive at grounds in good time but several fans missed kick off due to queues to get in. This was apparently caused by faulty ticket sc...