The Sporting Weekend

The last weekend has been very tiring for several of us

Me and several other members of Hampshire Goalball participated in a Goalball tournament on Saturday 18th April, however the tournament was in Hull, and with no available drivers we had no choice but to use public transport.

We began at Havant and used the 11.04 South West Trains service to London Waterloo, we then proceeded onto the Northern Line to Leicester Square where we changed onto the Piccadilly Line to Kings Cross St Pancrass, here we boarded the 1.33 Hull Trains service to Hull, arriving at 4.40 (30 mins late due to a fault on the train). On the Piccadilly Line we laughed at the terminating station of "Cockfosters", we also came up for some good nicknames for each person

Chris Coulnel Popcorn
Dave Captain Jack Daniels
Thom General Cockup
Joe Major Pain In The Arse

We spent most of the day and evening consuming alcahol and to an amazement of no hangover the next day, we played 4 matches against Hull, Leeds, Rochdale and Birmingham, considering this is our first tournament in god knows how long we didnt do too badly.

We also had some good experiences in Hull, such as the taxi arriving 30 seconds after calling for one, the politeness was also suprising.

We proceeded back to Hull and used the 4.54 Norhtern Rail service to Sheffield and allighted at Doncaster, here was the 5.55 NXEC (National Express East Coast) service to London Kings Cross, we then used the underground, same as above but in reverse, then using the 8.30 South West Trains service to Portsmouth Harbour arriving back at Havant at 9.45.

Purhcasing this ticket set me back £69.95 and also having to buy another train ticket the next day, this time only £2.50 from Fareham to Hedge End where many Hampshire Blind Cricket players boarded a minibus to Arundel for a friendly with Sussex, a beautiful day with some great people, shame we lostbut meh lol, there was some singing ish on the way up but this failed to wake me up from the last 2 days.

So yeah this has been an eventful, tiring and expensive weekend, a good one though

For your enjoyment i enclose a video taken on our travels back from Hull.



Until Next Time