The Christmas time coaster enthusiast meet up is one of highlights of the calendar year. Obviously, I can’t disclose everything that goes on during this sacred festival. What I can say, is that there’s usually a lot of drinks, antics, presents and hopefully some creds.
The Cambridge crew arrived at Hyde Park at around 10am, where we met a delegate from Hertford. Hyde Park hosts the annual Winter Wonderbland… sorry Wonderland. If you like spending nearly £10 on an undercooked ‘German’ sausage, this is the place for you. Sadly, there was only one new coaster this year and I’d already ridden it! Though it’s a good one and I gave it another ride:
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| Here it is in Stuttgart |
Cred obtained, we fled to the nearest coffee shop and headed east. There were two creds waiting for us at Excel London. It turns out, The Excel was also hosting London International Horse Show. This meant that we had a wade through a sea of horsey weirdos to get to the creds. Horse people are weird, they’re obsessed with things that eat hay and fart and I only do one of those things. The aroma of the place wasn’t great either. Further proof that horses just fart all of the time. Anyway enough farting around, there’s creds to get.
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| Creds this way |
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| Sleigh those creds |
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| I have no shame |
Creds obtained, we checked our watches and realised that it was pub o’clock. The organiser of this meet up had booked us The King’s Arms in Mayfair.
A decent enough boozer, for a Greedy King place, we sat upstairs and admired the appropriate amusement park photos on the walls. The Guinness was average. Once the rest of the crew arrived, the drinks and presents flowed. After inhaling some fish and chips, we headed to Camden. Some needed and cred and others, including me, needed more beer. We ventured to the nearby Werewolf Beer LTD.
This brewery is themed to ghost trains!
Theming like this makes theme park enthusiasts really excited.
I opted for the brown ale, which was pretty decent. I had a taste of one of the pales, which was meh. The cider drinkers were impressed with the canned cider. Overall a decent little place. We didn’t have long here, as we needed to head to our evening booking.
I neglected to take a photo of The Prince Albert, Camden. It’s a nice pub, with beers mostly coming from Laine Brewery. Most of them available weren’t my sort of thing, but I did enjoy the lager.
The Guinness was good too! I’ve found it hard to find good Guinness in London, on previous visits to the capital.
We ended our night at Zodiac, an LGBT pub/ club. I don’t really know what to class it as, it looks like a pub but has a club atmosphere.
The Rainbow Pilsner from Portobello was average, but beer options on were thin on the ground. Not that it’s a place you go for beer. The music was fun. After we had danced the night away, the Cambridge crew headed home.
I’ll leave you with this:
Sometimes it’s best not to ask.
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