England Journals

Firsts for 2012 and 2013

A travel journal to England by koshkha

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LG Arena

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The Madagascar stage Photo - LG Arena, Birmingham, England
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Back in December I received an offer from Living Social, one of the many 'deals' sites that have sprung up in the last couple of years. They were offering tickets for Madagascar Live at the LG arena in Birmingham for just under half the normal price. We could get 'Gold' tickets - the second highest price band - for £17 per person instead of £35 each. I know my husband would rather eat his own eyeballs than go to a pantomime so this seemed like an equally childish alternative to the more traditional Christmas entertainment. We saw the original Madagascar film at the cinema many years ago and I was interested to see how they could convert a cartoon into a stage show. Once I'd worked out that the LG Aren...Read More

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LG Arena
National Exhibition Centre
Birmingham, England
0121 780 4141

Olympic Football at Old Trafford

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I was planning ahead a long time for the latest of my ‘Firsts for 2012’ – in fact I booked the tickets last year. In the bizarre lottery of buying Olympic tickets, we only managed to get football tickets. Of course we didn’t realize at the time that everyone who wanted them got football tickets and indeed I think they were still available just a few days before the games started. This classifies as a ‘first’ on two counts – the first time in our lives that the UK has hosted the Olympics and, in my husband’s case, the first time he’d been to a ‘proper’ football match. I say ‘proper’ since you can’t live in the UK and not see football all around you. A ‘proper’ match means one in a big stadium and not ...Read More

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koshkha

koshkha
Northampton, United Kingdom

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