So, after whoring up the North Wales coast, I decided to join Jake and his friend Charlotte at Southport for even more whorage. I didn’t take that many pictures, so I’ll just keep this report brief.
Note to self: avoid EVER getting a train between Chester and Liverpool on Grand National day. It was awful. The train I planned to get got cancelled, so I had to get on the next one half an hour later. Thirty minutes is no big deal, but it was sooooooo busy, meaning that everyone who would have been on the train had to cram onto the next one. I managed to sit down though. Years of taking the subway in Seoul and Tokyo during rush hour proved to be an excellent training method when it came to elbowing my way to a seat.
Anyway, got to Southport, which actually seemed a lot nicer than I was expecting. Having said that, I’d just spent the previous day in Rhyl, so I was in no position to accurately judge it.
Jake was running late as well, so I took a slightly longer walk to the park. It was all quite pleasant really.
First view of New Pleasureland:
I’d ridden the exact same kind of coaster the day before, but oh well…
Jake arrived about 10 minutes after I did, and informed me of the “mouse SPITE.” The reverchon spinning mouse had gone unfortunately. We had a go on Wild Cat, which was actually really good for this type of coaster. It was smooth and fun; basically, sooooooo much better than the one I’d tried the day before.
The Indiana Jones coaster was closed, and undergoing some sort of retheme into a ghost train. At least I’m assuming the coaster will stay and get rethemed and it’s not a whole new ride.
So, that’s two coasters missed out on, leaving Jake with only one CRED!!!: a Go-Gator, which we dutifully rode.
It was my first ever Go-Gator, and I felt suitably embarrassed. There was fab music though, so it made it a bit better.
We had a go on the Big Apple next, leaving Charlotte in charge of taking pictures of us. She did an AMAZING job as you can see.
We had exactly enough tokens left to have a go on the booster. It was my first time to ride one of these, and it was on a really long cycle. I did **** myself a bit at first, but after the first swing was fine and I really enjoyed it.
We decided against the dodgems.
That was basically it really. New Pleasureland is crap really, but was infinitely nicer than the places I’d been the day before, and Southport in general seemed quite nice, from what I saw of it between the train station and the park.
Uhm, we went to Morrisons, which I don’t have any pictures of, and then went home.
Anyway, even though we missed out on 2 coasters at Southport, I’m quite chuffed with the 7 I picked up over the last couple of days, considering I had no intention of doing anything until right before I actually went.
Jake drove for about 6 hours total for a Go-Gator.
The end.
Note to self: avoid EVER getting a train between Chester and Liverpool on Grand National day. It was awful. The train I planned to get got cancelled, so I had to get on the next one half an hour later. Thirty minutes is no big deal, but it was sooooooo busy, meaning that everyone who would have been on the train had to cram onto the next one. I managed to sit down though. Years of taking the subway in Seoul and Tokyo during rush hour proved to be an excellent training method when it came to elbowing my way to a seat.
Anyway, got to Southport, which actually seemed a lot nicer than I was expecting. Having said that, I’d just spent the previous day in Rhyl, so I was in no position to accurately judge it.
Jake was running late as well, so I took a slightly longer walk to the park. It was all quite pleasant really.
First view of New Pleasureland:
I’d ridden the exact same kind of coaster the day before, but oh well…
Jake arrived about 10 minutes after I did, and informed me of the “mouse SPITE.” The reverchon spinning mouse had gone unfortunately. We had a go on Wild Cat, which was actually really good for this type of coaster. It was smooth and fun; basically, sooooooo much better than the one I’d tried the day before.
The Indiana Jones coaster was closed, and undergoing some sort of retheme into a ghost train. At least I’m assuming the coaster will stay and get rethemed and it’s not a whole new ride.
So, that’s two coasters missed out on, leaving Jake with only one CRED!!!: a Go-Gator, which we dutifully rode.
It was my first ever Go-Gator, and I felt suitably embarrassed. There was fab music though, so it made it a bit better.
We had a go on the Big Apple next, leaving Charlotte in charge of taking pictures of us. She did an AMAZING job as you can see.
We had exactly enough tokens left to have a go on the booster. It was my first time to ride one of these, and it was on a really long cycle. I did **** myself a bit at first, but after the first swing was fine and I really enjoyed it.
We decided against the dodgems.
That was basically it really. New Pleasureland is crap really, but was infinitely nicer than the places I’d been the day before, and Southport in general seemed quite nice, from what I saw of it between the train station and the park.
Uhm, we went to Morrisons, which I don’t have any pictures of, and then went home.
Anyway, even though we missed out on 2 coasters at Southport, I’m quite chuffed with the 7 I picked up over the last couple of days, considering I had no intention of doing anything until right before I actually went.
Jake drove for about 6 hours total for a Go-Gator.
The end.
