It’s race week….
March 11th, 2009
There are drunk Irish people wandering around our campus, I cannot park to go to uni (at least, I couldn’t today), there are girls from ladbrokes dressed as jockeys in town handing out flyers, everyone in the butcher’s today had Guinness breath, there are a lot of idiots wandering around in the middle of the road and there are a lot of chauffeurs around Pittville Park with smart suits and scruffy shoes!! Welcome to race week. I love the atmosphere around town in the day, but I do not much enjoy the early evenings of race week.
One thing surprises me… Every year, people say, in astonished tones, “It took me an hour and a half to get past the racecourse today!!” as if this is news. It happens every single year!!!
March 12th, 2009 at 08:23
Ah, “Strangers with Hangovers” week.
The good thing about the racing crowd is that, generally, they are good natured – even when drunk. Unlike the average crowd out in town of an evening that is at least 50% idiot.
March 12th, 2009 at 09:45
Ahhh I miss those days
March 13th, 2009 at 10:05
Glad I have a motorbike. No idea how long it would have taken in a car from the GE Aerospace lights down to racecourse roundabout and then home. God bless 2 wheels!!