Mundane travel thread

Just booked flights to Vancouver for an Easter trip to see the sister in law.

Nearly booked a few weeks ago back but held off and it was now £1800 cheaper.

Not too sure how the 5 year old twins will do on the long flight.

Alot of TV if my 5 year olds trip to Canada was anything to go by.

BOS to LHR last Sunday, currently on a train from that London (where I escaped being knifed and not having my phone nicked) to Naarwich, checking in on Mus Snr, who was diagnosed with prostate cancer last week (the prognosis ispositive). NOR to AMS tomorrow afternoon and then arrive in LUX midnight tomorrow night.

LUX to AMS and then onto BOS Friday, arriving back at Muswell Towers late Friday night, this is the last trip of the year, thankfully.

Put Russ in the middle of them, jobsagooden.

Train home only 5 minutes late setting off.

LHR to AMS this evening, followed by train from AMS to Amersfoort. Made decision to not stay in Utrecht as it'll be full of Dutch yobs looking for trouble. We are being forced to get organised coaches from the "fan zone" in Utrecht to the ground tomorrow night as there will be no entry any other way. Of all the trips, it's probably the one I'm least looking forward to as Dutch fans generally seem to live in the 70s and 80s. There are those who think this is a good thing, but I'm determinedly not one of them.
Graz was a delight in an orderly, Nazi sort of way, and Seville was great up until trying to get into the stadium and being penned in by temperamental police horses.

Hope he's doing OK. BW Snr had the same diagnosis three weeks ago, but also the sort of least bad version of that.

Having gone to Utrecht this summer for a work conference, I was pleasantly surprised at how nice it was as a city. I watched the Europa league final in a bar there and the locals were very friendly. Not sure that experience is representative of the average Utrecht football fan, but hoping it makes the prospect a little less grim for you

Agreed, I went for a work conference a few years ago, it was a nice place. Didn't feel very hooligan-y at all.

Outside of football, I'm sure it is very pleasant. However, the restrictions being placed on Forest fans suggests the police expect some trouble, and recent events involving Dutch fans seem to back that up.
I haven't witnessed any violence at or close to a game here since QPR away in about 2005 when we were ambushed by a group of QPR fans on the Uxbridge Road late one evening. Mus took the worst of it, but survived with a few bruises, and Russ vanished quicker than a politician's promise. Luckily the police had obviously been tracking them and arrived extremely quickly whereupon they all scarpered. I'm too old for such shenanigans and always avoided it anyway.

A friend whose going just put a photo on WhatsApp of the away netting with text about (presumably) Forest asking them to remove all the debris from the away end, which appeared as a result of Sundays game.

Blackpool early 2000s was perhaps the only time I’ve been caught up in it. Blackpool fans stormed the pub we were in, glasses and stools flying everywhere. Managed to get out the fire exit on demands of the landlord (cheers). Next pub we went to had windows put in. We stayed over, carnage all night really with all the Forest faces of the time around. Just not in the places we were when they were attacked.

I had a long weekend with some work friends in Utrecht in the early 2000s. Was a really nice place and a fine weekend. Lovely bars down by the canal.

There's been away netting at all the games so far.

Forest also put out message saying Erividisie (so?) fans destroyed the toilet roll holders on the weekend so there will be none in male or female toilets. Available on request from stewards/catering staff!

We're Nottingham Forest, we shit where we want.

I’ve never had a shit at a football ground.

Same. Had a season ticket for 40 years, and not shat once. And long may it continue.

It's more of an issue for the ladies I think.

(1979s mode: women at football, worlds gone mad etc)

I’ll be there on Friday after everything died down.

Utrecht is a great city and very friendly, but the last time I was there the cops had the Centraal Station on lockdown due to some rival fans kicking off. Lots of dogs and the sort.