Saturday, October 09, 2010
Sheffield
Went up to Sheffield for the Wednesday Saints football match. Made a weekend of it and was a fun time. An early start, 9am at Morden, we get to Kings Cross with time to get a paper and beers for the train. Upon taking our seats we sat opposite two older friendly but repetative Saints fans both also with beer. 'He's come all the way from Colchester' says the Hampshire accented one before saying he was on the 7am train from Southampton. At an early stop some teenage Stevenage fans come on in boistorous mood singing songs and have a drum. Thankfully they were on the next carraige, still our new found friends found them good entertainment as after they got off all we heard was 'those Stevenage lads...' every stop. Then some Leeds fans come on and every one who passed in the aisle was told 'those two are Leeds fans, dirty Leeds'. Still made the journey interesting. Disaster struck at Doncaster as my mate left our remaing beers on the train as we changed. Idiot!
At Sheefield we had heard that the station pub was the best one so we took advantage of this. Lots of real ale and the only lager was Bernard Pils. Quite nice with my mate having a Strawberry beer (his only alocohol of the weekend it would appear!)
After a tram to Hillsborough we arrive a couple of minutes late due to underestimating the time of the journey. Saints won one nil in a good performance and after going back to the hotel it was time to explore the delights a Sheffield evening would have to offer.
Three back street type places were started with, the Irish Dog & Partridge, where a gorgeous rock type chick was with a large group of large Irish males for some reason. Flynns was a place being done up in one bar that had bands upstairs. Wasn't great but a hobo type bloke in the front bar whipped out a harmonica for a few bars of Fairytale of New York! Trippets had a DJ on a stage with the most bored looking girlfriend sitting next to him. Quite a nice front bar here I recall with candles in wine bottles. After some chips we head to the Red Deer an ikea type bar with games such as Jenga and Kerplunnk availiable to play. The Old House was next with Lindeboom. This was far too loud and crowded for my liking. Best place of the evening was next called Bungalows And Bears. A spacious modern bar with pub characteristics and a wide range of beer. Some young trendy people, quite busy, decent music which is what you want for a Saturday night. Here, I engaged with some lovely young ladies after whipping out my google map! After recommending a pub the blonde girl said if we wanted to go to a club we should go to 3X. It has many rooms and would play the type of older music I'd enjoy! How she would know what typ of music this is I don't know, perhaps she saw me tapping my feet to Lily Was Here when I was sitting down? The recommended pub was the Devonshire Cat, a slightly older crowd that had a Harrow type feel to it. Still very busy and another good choice of beer in here with Warsteiner on tap. Good stuff. We managed to get a seat and after whipping the map out again, another female comes up to us asking if we were local? Obvoiusly not having a map. With my mate struggling to finish his half we decided to make the next place the last one so go along the road to the self proclaimed late bar the Casbah. Here they played classic and modern indie such as Pulp, James and Pigeon Detectives. A bit bloke heavy in there but a good lively place with opportunity for a boogie if you so desired. All in all a great weekend specially with the Saints getting back on track!
At Sheefield we had heard that the station pub was the best one so we took advantage of this. Lots of real ale and the only lager was Bernard Pils. Quite nice with my mate having a Strawberry beer (his only alocohol of the weekend it would appear!)
After a tram to Hillsborough we arrive a couple of minutes late due to underestimating the time of the journey. Saints won one nil in a good performance and after going back to the hotel it was time to explore the delights a Sheffield evening would have to offer.
Three back street type places were started with, the Irish Dog & Partridge, where a gorgeous rock type chick was with a large group of large Irish males for some reason. Flynns was a place being done up in one bar that had bands upstairs. Wasn't great but a hobo type bloke in the front bar whipped out a harmonica for a few bars of Fairytale of New York! Trippets had a DJ on a stage with the most bored looking girlfriend sitting next to him. Quite a nice front bar here I recall with candles in wine bottles. After some chips we head to the Red Deer an ikea type bar with games such as Jenga and Kerplunnk availiable to play. The Old House was next with Lindeboom. This was far too loud and crowded for my liking. Best place of the evening was next called Bungalows And Bears. A spacious modern bar with pub characteristics and a wide range of beer. Some young trendy people, quite busy, decent music which is what you want for a Saturday night. Here, I engaged with some lovely young ladies after whipping out my google map! After recommending a pub the blonde girl said if we wanted to go to a club we should go to 3X. It has many rooms and would play the type of older music I'd enjoy! How she would know what typ of music this is I don't know, perhaps she saw me tapping my feet to Lily Was Here when I was sitting down? The recommended pub was the Devonshire Cat, a slightly older crowd that had a Harrow type feel to it. Still very busy and another good choice of beer in here with Warsteiner on tap. Good stuff. We managed to get a seat and after whipping the map out again, another female comes up to us asking if we were local? Obvoiusly not having a map. With my mate struggling to finish his half we decided to make the next place the last one so go along the road to the self proclaimed late bar the Casbah. Here they played classic and modern indie such as Pulp, James and Pigeon Detectives. A bit bloke heavy in there but a good lively place with opportunity for a boogie if you so desired. All in all a great weekend specially with the Saints getting back on track!
# posted by Rich @ 8:48 AM 
