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I don't know what people were expecting in Sweden during early May

They're not the same place are they? Crystal Palace Athletics Stadium stands on the site of the old Crystal Palace dirt track. I'm not 100% sure, but I assume that the track at White City Stadium in London was partly laid on top of the athletics track?

Andrew Silver, not officially retired. Dean Barker, only recently retired.

Didn't they used to run a bus from Upminster Station?

I was shocked when I read this .... you are a sick sick woman.

Stanley Stadium was not far from the end of the M62 motorway, pretty close to the city Centre. The last speedway meeting was in 1960 (they were then known as the Pirates), but greyhounds ran until the end of 1961. The stadium no longer exists and is now the site of a fruit and veg market. No reason was given for closure, but eight points from eighteen meetings in their final season tells it's own story. Taken from Homes of British Speedway

I didn't go to another meeting after Rye closed in 1993 untill I discovered they'd reopened and caught the last few meetings of 2000.

Len Silver track curator?

I don't remember seeing any trains leaving Cardiff Central Station at 3am when I was leaving the Walkabout Bar last year Perhaps some of us want to have a good drink on the Friday and Saturday nights and then stagger back to our hotel rooms a few minutes away? To call people mugs for spending their hard earned money for a once a year event is being very disrespectful. How much money did you spend travelling up to Norfolk to see one sided meetings at Kings Lynn last year?

Thanks for the offer Haggis, but there's no need to go to the trouble. We're planning on popping up to PWP sometime during the summer anyway as the kids like it there so much, the Animal Olympic show was particularly pleasing, especially as I got a tri-cast up, Bearded Lizard, some kind of beetle whose name I forgot and American Cockroach. As I said we would've had a look around the museum, but the kids were hungry, tired and grumpy after standing about in the rain watching my son play football before we came up to PWP. I'm happy that the move to PWP has been such a success as although it would be pleasing to the die hards to have the celebration at High Beech it is a nightmare to park and get around the very small merchandise room there Hope to see you all in the summer and definitely next February.

It was too busy to push the wheelchair through the museum to be honest. I got fed up asking people to "excuse me" in the merchandise tent next door when we first arrived, so thought we'd walk around the zoo to pass the time while the crowd thinned out. By the time we returned the kids were starving and wanted to go home.

Pretty decent day, although we didn't set foot in the museum, the kids weren't interested and we'd seen it all before. I was going to buy a copy of the 2009 Rockets Highlights DVD from Ken at T2TV, but I'd left my wallet at home. "A lucky escape", the other half said, "why would you want to spend twenty quid on a five minute DVD?" And that's from a Berwick supporter!!

Sod that, We're shooting off back to Cardiff for a pi** up

And as it's Turkey you'll be spending most of the time on the bog

I didn't use the word "he" once in that post!!! ..... Less time on the beer and more time changing nappies methinks NO worse than you see on Eastenders, Corrie umpteen times a week, only these are REAL people, so twice as entertaining ... keep it up you two

I'm not aware of the exact circumstances regarding your "arrangement", but surely the guy deserves the occasional weekend away? Perhaps it would've been nice to hear it from him rather than read it on the forum I have a similar situation with my kids, who I have almost every weekend ..... My ex wife and I have an arrangement where I give her plenty of notice if I want a weekend away without them, such as the Cardiff GP, and she's usually more than happy to oblige, but there again I'm not boning her mother, so she's more amenable.

Squirrelnutkins sig says it all really

Why shouldn't he?

Are you taking your pet rabbit with you? Who on earth would want to eat salad at 3am in the morning, unless it has meat and chilli sauce mixed in with it, apart from a pasty faced vegetarian?

Yep, that's the one ..... Not cheap, but hey, you only live once ..... Pretty handy to stagger back from the pubs and clubs from and a stone's throw away from Chippy Alley Are you staying in the same place as last time?

I didn't know there was more than one Park Inn ..... All I know it's five minutes walk from Cardiff Central Station and across the road from the Big Sleep

Two nights booked in the Park Inn shazz ..... You? I enjoyed the social more than the speedway in 2008 ..... Cracking atmosphere in Walkabout on the Friday night/Saturday morning this year

2008 was my first and only GP so far ..... Went to the PL pairs this year and borrowed an armchair on the Friday night for a couple of hours, but couldn't stay for the GP unfortunately, due to a vindictive ex wife who wouldn't have the kids on the Saturday.

100% agree ..... Got a good hotel booked for two nights right in the city centre, hopefully funded by the cash I put away each week since I quit the fags ..... Already have enough for the petrol for the return journey from London to Cardiff ..... I wouldn't want to stumble out of the Walkabout at 2am, only to find that I had to negotiate my way to a crappy bed and breakfast in Newport ..... Top price GP ticket already purchased from a couple of wins on the dogs last summer

Bad News For Fans of Chippy Alley Will the traditional chippies and kebab shops be replaced by Juice and salad bars in time for the 2010 Cardiff GP?