To The UK + Sunderland

We got the rental car and left Montpellier for a road trip to Marseille to fly to Newcastle via Gatwick.

After some tries we got out of the city and on the way.

And with the exception of the disappearing toll road ticket it was a nice trip

Not much time in the airport so after a little food shopping we were on board and in the air.

But they came around with free coffee and cookies, and we were lucky, there was no pork fat in them!

We arrived in the cold UK, compared to where we came from; there was no rain….yet!

We had dinner at the airport and I got the biggest chicken burger ever.

 Then we found out that our 20.05 flight was now being 2.5 hours delayed!

Now info besides “we hope to fly”, then around 22.00 we got free voucher for drinks, not a good sign. But after a short meeting with Mr. Jack D, they were ready to board us.

The nice rental car man in Newcastle stay at the office waiting for us, so we got the car and went straight to the Sunderland line and got number 105.

Then we went looking for our hotel, and after scaring the poor guy in reception when we arrived 5 persons, as Kathy from OZ now had joined us, with all our bags as he was only waiting 1 person and was fully booked, we found out we was in the wrong one.

We found the right one and could finally get a few hours of sleep before the morning roll call.

We had the roll call at 6.00 in nice UK rain. Then we had breakfast and shower and packing the bags as we were going straight to Manchester after the show.

Then back to the line to be told we should be back at 14.30 for wrist bands.  Then the security staff said wristbands at 14.00, so we decided to be back at 13.30 to see what was happening.

We then went looking for waterproofing and a place to park the car, before we rejoined the line at 13.30, now everything was chaos, they just gave us a grey wristband and say that they would soon let us into another area where they would be food and drinks to buy before they would let us into the stadium, but they would not respect the numbers.

When they open the gates people was running and fighting for they spot, nobody seem to care about food and drinks everybody just wanted a good spot in the new line.

After sometime in the new mass line, Graham showed up and he was not a happy man!

Then they started to line us up in numbers in a new line outside the “new” line, but faith was restored and we knew that with the G man in charge everything would be all right.

Then they finally let into the stadium in numbers and walking, again we got a spot at the rail in front of the video scream on the right side.

 The band was in very good mood and a bit loose after a few drinks celebrating Nils birthday with a few drinks.