Deja Vu Wembley!

We embarked on another trip down to Wembley on the 23rd May 2009, to see Shrewsbury Town football club (again!) v Gillingham football club.
Again, another convoy of coaches headed down south, making one stop at a motorway services, where Shrewsbury fans just took over the whole place.

It was a lovely day, so on arrival we headed to a pub. The pubs around Wembley were allocating themselves to either team, we ended up in a Wetherspoons.

Our seats in the stadium were a bit higher up than last time (ok, a lot higher up), but a good view. To cut a long painful 90 minutes short, Shrewsbury lost in the dying seconds to a late winner from Gillingham. The dream was over again. Maybe they will be lucky next time? Or maybe everything happens in three's?

STFC 0-1 GTFC

Arrivederci!

We will finish off this trip report on Milan with some pictures we took while exploring. We both found Milan to be a friendly and interesting city and would definitely visit again. We have found that not everyone rates Milan as a weekend break as much as we do, but each to their own and we all have different ideas on how to spend a long weekend. We are thinking about some more long weekends and considering on continuing with Italy, Venice and Rome being high on the agenda for obvious reasons.

Next time though we will take a more extensive phrase book as ours was not enough to get us by. Our little souvenir of Milan is a miniature vespa.

The next trip report will be our honeymoon in Crete. Before that, we will update you on TSFC and the treble! and a short report on our deja vu trip to Wembley! As you can probably see from the trip countdown on the right hand side of the blog, we will be off to Wales very soon for the dog's holiday, Tal-y-bont to be exact. We have more plans ahead and reports will follow accordingly.

Steph hasn't forgotten about the trip reports on Thailand and Malaysia, they will come, she just hasn't got round to transferring the APS films to CD yet, but Steph will get her act together and get it done!

3 Jolie

We went for a meal at the newly opened 3 Jolie restaurant owned by the AC Milan footballer Gennaro Gattuso. The restaurant was walking distance from our hotel. We really enjoyed the meal and would reccommend it. The restaurant had low lightning and a colourful decor, which set for a good atmosphere. The food was delicious and without much of a waiting time. Andy had steak and Steph had a beef spaghetti dish. Steph was drinking Vodka and they were very generous with their measures, so if you order a single you are more likely to get it verging on a triple!

After the meal, we went to our hotel bar for some drinks and got talking to our friendly barman, there was a bit of a language barrier, but we think we just about understood each other. The barman felt that he wasn't being challenged enough, so we got him making some cocktails! They were pretty good. The hotel bar closed quite early so the barman recommended his local. His local turned out to be a plastic gazebo in the middle of the street, but it had a good atmosphere. A couple of locals joined us and the language barrier was even greater, but everyone seemed to have a good time anyway.

Our friendly hotel barman

At the barmans local

Gattuso's restaurant

This Is It

Steph has been asked by a few what she is going to do with her 'This Is It' Michael Jackson tickets.
She has two concert tickets and two after show tickets. She has decided to keep one concert ticket and refund the rest. Steph also has a tour t-shirt, so all this will make a nice souvenir of the Michael Jackson concert that never was.