HomeatHighbury
26 Jul 2009, 09:05 AM
Hallo from HoMeat, Topcatcole, CanadaGooner, and Jeff L!
This is canadagooner, Barnet was my first match on this trip, Homeat, mixmastermat and Matt's brother and father along for the the fun. The banner got a good position thanks to Nick and Matt and I'm sure some of you got a squint at it on ATVO.
This is Jeff L's report from the game with SC Columbia Floridisdorf. A 7 - 1 win after going down 1 - 0 with an EA1 "mistake" just before half time. The quality of the two teams showed as within a few minutes we were 2 - 1 up. The second half was a "pull away" with a further 5 goals, but E.25 a ticket to stand on a grass bank was not too good in the worst ground we will play in. A very hot day resulted in Bob having his sun screen confiscated as a "security risk" !! :rolleyes: A 2 hour drive each way by my good self from B.W. to Vienna and back resulted in a direct "pit stop" at the "Blue Room" bar at B.W. upon arrival back at "base camp". Not much achieved from a footballing front in this game, but a good start to the vacation. Great weather from there on, only adds to this being a great trip. How great will follow from this point onwards in the rest of the gangs update. From Bad Waltersdorf this is Jeff L. signing off for "Arsenal America TV". !
"TopCatCole" continues with a side trip to Maribor in Slovenia to watch a Champions League qualifier with W.I.T. from Georgia. (Not the U.S. state! ;) ). Prior to the game a sightseeing trip of a nice town, (in a crumbling eatern European sort of way), and a good lunch at an Irish pub, called "Patrick's Bar" which is well worth a stop for good food and good local Union beer. After taking the tickets prior to the game at the box office and a visit inside the ground and pictures taken of the 4 of us with an Arsenal flag, we then re-located to a very nice bar, right on the river in an old guarding "gate fort" where good wine and good Lesko beer, led to a bill of E.16 ! A hasty retreat was made, just in case there was a mistake in the bill ! The game itself was good and interesting with a 3 - 1 win to take them into the next round, but according to a "Maribor Ultra" who actually gave us a scarf, said they won't be playing AFC next as they only play "Champions" !:eek: The day rounded off by watching wonderful Slovenian girls hanging around on street corners at the end of the game on the way back to B.W. All the cars were hooting at them, in the traditional "Slovenian mating call" way.
Hello all, HoMeat now. The next day after Maribor we all went to morning training in c40 degree and rising heat, and then continued up the hill to the spa. All kinds of different pools and it proved the perfect thing for a hot day. We all decided not to go to afternoon training and instead stayed until we went to the Safen Hof for dinner with Judy and Alison. Fabulous meal, including Bob's 50 euro menu with 8 courses and wonderful venison and a 65 euro bottle of wine, we were then all offered a drink on the house afterwards. Some of went to the Blue Room, unsatisfied with the night, and Jeff and I stayed until 4:20am, closing the place up as we left. Lazy lazy day the following morning as nobody woke up before noon, except for Tim. Who was up early in a spritely western european manner, while the rest of the gang crumbled in a typical eastern european way. It was nothing personal, purely business. Friday evening, we went to the training and got Gilles Grimandi, Pat Rice, Mart Poom, Vito Mannone, Aaron Ramsey, and Bakary Sagna to sign the Arsenal America banner. Followed up that with a big bqq in Eltendorf put on by Andreas Kovacs, with the Dover Gooners, etc. Good turn out as well by the Vienna Gooners, Maidstone Gooners, and the Supporters Club with Jill.
Saturday, we went to Vienna since there was no training, and ran across a 10 year old Dutch boy celebrating his birthday wearing an Arsenal shirt. We told the family about BW and hoped they might be able to come down for training. We really enjoyed Vienna and took in all the sights and sounds. We all went back to the Blue Room, which I shut up again...college wasn't that long ago...
Today, we were all up early for training...for once...and got over and got the banner in place. During the course of training we got Senderos, Arshavin, Silvestre, Denilson, Eboue, Vic Akers (Arsenal's most successful manager), Vermaelen, Eduardo, Bendtner, Almunia, and then Traore. Still missing Rosicknote, Diaby, and Wilshere. The dutch kid and his family came, and we were able to arrange for Robin van Persie to take a picture, which became an autograph and photo session with the boy. Off to Hungary tonight for dinner on a cross border trip. More to come soon!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoToOg6FnoE&feature=related
This is canadagooner, Barnet was my first match on this trip, Homeat, mixmastermat and Matt's brother and father along for the the fun. The banner got a good position thanks to Nick and Matt and I'm sure some of you got a squint at it on ATVO.
This is Jeff L's report from the game with SC Columbia Floridisdorf. A 7 - 1 win after going down 1 - 0 with an EA1 "mistake" just before half time. The quality of the two teams showed as within a few minutes we were 2 - 1 up. The second half was a "pull away" with a further 5 goals, but E.25 a ticket to stand on a grass bank was not too good in the worst ground we will play in. A very hot day resulted in Bob having his sun screen confiscated as a "security risk" !! :rolleyes: A 2 hour drive each way by my good self from B.W. to Vienna and back resulted in a direct "pit stop" at the "Blue Room" bar at B.W. upon arrival back at "base camp". Not much achieved from a footballing front in this game, but a good start to the vacation. Great weather from there on, only adds to this being a great trip. How great will follow from this point onwards in the rest of the gangs update. From Bad Waltersdorf this is Jeff L. signing off for "Arsenal America TV". !
"TopCatCole" continues with a side trip to Maribor in Slovenia to watch a Champions League qualifier with W.I.T. from Georgia. (Not the U.S. state! ;) ). Prior to the game a sightseeing trip of a nice town, (in a crumbling eatern European sort of way), and a good lunch at an Irish pub, called "Patrick's Bar" which is well worth a stop for good food and good local Union beer. After taking the tickets prior to the game at the box office and a visit inside the ground and pictures taken of the 4 of us with an Arsenal flag, we then re-located to a very nice bar, right on the river in an old guarding "gate fort" where good wine and good Lesko beer, led to a bill of E.16 ! A hasty retreat was made, just in case there was a mistake in the bill ! The game itself was good and interesting with a 3 - 1 win to take them into the next round, but according to a "Maribor Ultra" who actually gave us a scarf, said they won't be playing AFC next as they only play "Champions" !:eek: The day rounded off by watching wonderful Slovenian girls hanging around on street corners at the end of the game on the way back to B.W. All the cars were hooting at them, in the traditional "Slovenian mating call" way.
Hello all, HoMeat now. The next day after Maribor we all went to morning training in c40 degree and rising heat, and then continued up the hill to the spa. All kinds of different pools and it proved the perfect thing for a hot day. We all decided not to go to afternoon training and instead stayed until we went to the Safen Hof for dinner with Judy and Alison. Fabulous meal, including Bob's 50 euro menu with 8 courses and wonderful venison and a 65 euro bottle of wine, we were then all offered a drink on the house afterwards. Some of went to the Blue Room, unsatisfied with the night, and Jeff and I stayed until 4:20am, closing the place up as we left. Lazy lazy day the following morning as nobody woke up before noon, except for Tim. Who was up early in a spritely western european manner, while the rest of the gang crumbled in a typical eastern european way. It was nothing personal, purely business. Friday evening, we went to the training and got Gilles Grimandi, Pat Rice, Mart Poom, Vito Mannone, Aaron Ramsey, and Bakary Sagna to sign the Arsenal America banner. Followed up that with a big bqq in Eltendorf put on by Andreas Kovacs, with the Dover Gooners, etc. Good turn out as well by the Vienna Gooners, Maidstone Gooners, and the Supporters Club with Jill.
Saturday, we went to Vienna since there was no training, and ran across a 10 year old Dutch boy celebrating his birthday wearing an Arsenal shirt. We told the family about BW and hoped they might be able to come down for training. We really enjoyed Vienna and took in all the sights and sounds. We all went back to the Blue Room, which I shut up again...college wasn't that long ago...
Today, we were all up early for training...for once...and got over and got the banner in place. During the course of training we got Senderos, Arshavin, Silvestre, Denilson, Eboue, Vic Akers (Arsenal's most successful manager), Vermaelen, Eduardo, Bendtner, Almunia, and then Traore. Still missing Rosicknote, Diaby, and Wilshere. The dutch kid and his family came, and we were able to arrange for Robin van Persie to take a picture, which became an autograph and photo session with the boy. Off to Hungary tonight for dinner on a cross border trip. More to come soon!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoToOg6FnoE&feature=related