Beer Moose

Survival in League 1 was still hanging the balance, Cambridge could be relegated by the end of their game at Huddersfield. The U’s made the trip up to West Yorkshire knowing that they had to win.  We set off at around 9am and stopped at Blyth Services, which is far from a favourite of mine! The queue for Greggs stretched virtually all the way back to Cambridge, so an early Burger King happened.  Tasted better than it looked We arrived in Huddersfield in plenty of time prior to kick off. The stadium is called The John Smith’s Stadium and therefore I felt having a pint of John Smith’s would be the appropriate pre match pint. Sadly John Smith’s is only available in cans! This must be the first time that someone has been disappointed to not see John Smith’s on draught.  Looks better than it tastes Bland beer dispatched, we headed to our seats. It’s actually really nice stadium, which is something that cannot be said about all former or even current Premier League grounds!...

  I was feeling rather basic about not having ridden Hyperia yet. The 200+ foot tall Mack Hypercoaster would look great on my coaster spreadsheet, I thought. Therefore myself and friend of the blog Aaron made the trip to Surrey.  It took me almost three hours to reach Thorpe Park from Cambridge, the M25 was not playing ball for a change…  Once inside the park we headed towards Nemesis Inferno for a front row ride. I’d ridden several B&M inverts since my last ride on Inferno and I was excited to see what I thought of it now. It’s a bottom tier invert. Not particularly big and not very forceful.  Here’s a really old photo I found. Hyperia had now opened and we headed straight there. Thorpe Park’s newest coaster has been plagued by issues since opening and seems to never have a good run of operational days. Just a few days before our visit Hyperia had an issue which closed it, we even debated cancelling our visit because we didn’t wish to visit and find the coaster ...