Day Nine - 20 September
Today was going to be our most complex travel schedule involving Uber, taxis, three trains, and our first tube ride. The Uber picked us up outside Saint James Church in Cooling and dropped us at the Chatham train station. Here the Wife did her good deed of the day by giving some money to a lady you was trying to get her son to school. The guard at the turnstile was being a raging dickhead. The lady got her young son on the train and was kind enough to give us the change she got back after buying the ticket. (I admit I thought she was scamming but the return of the change proved me wrong.)
The first train took us to London. From there we had to take the tube to another station. It took me awhile to figure out the tube map (they really needed an information person there). We got on the tube with our massive luggage and made the one stop trip to the next station without issue. Our second and third trains went without a hitch and we took a taxi from the Wrexham train station to our hotel.
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Wrexham Mural from TV. |
For those who are not acquainted with Wrexham Futball, you should try to watch "Welcome to Wrexham" to catch up. We stopped at the Turf Pub next to the Racecourse stadium for a pint and diet coke. The Wife got a picture with the pub owner who has appeared in the show. They seemed to be filming something for the upcoming season here. Unfortunately the Wife or I are probably not in the background. From the pub we walked to a mural seen in the show before returning to our hotel.
Day Ten - 21 September
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Miner's lamp. |
We walked to the stadium and went to the new Fan Zone that was recently added and was included with our tickets. We got some drinks, listened to some music, and chatted with the locals. One guy, a retired miner from Wrexham, was carrying a miners lamp. Turns out today was the day before the ninetieth anniversary of the Gresford mining disaster. The wife was checking out the line to the special appearances (players would show up to get pictures taken). While she was gone I was chatting with the miner. He asked where I was from and what was my Wife's name and stuff like that. When the wife came back he said hello to her by name and asked about Nebraska. The Wife was all WTF?!? He was a funny guy and everyone we met in Wrexham were friendly.
The Futball match was fun. The wrexham fans are a rowdy bunch and songs were sung throughout the entire match. Wrexham won 2-1. In the last fifteen minutes of the game it started to rain. During the last minute or two the skies opened up. The Wife and I had our raincoats on as we walked back to our hotel through what we would call 'a gully washer' back home. Up until now we'd had near perfect weather. This rain would mark a change in our weather luck.
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The first goal of the day - Wrexham of course. |
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