Official KUMB tour Toronto 2008

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Fionn Kiely wrote:When do you need the deposit by fella?
As soon as...although if i have your word i can sort :wink:
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Really want to go. I will make my decision by tonight.

Are you staying for the 3 days Romford, or longer?
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k-r-c wrote:Really want to go. I will make my decision by tonight.

Are you staying for the 3 days Romford, or longer?
3 days fella...Long way to go without looking round the gaff
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Romford wrote: As soon as...although if i have your word i can sort :wink:
Nice one mate, shall let you know as soon as possible. :thup:
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God I wish I didn't have kids Headbanger
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D&G wrote:God I wish I didn't have kids Headbanger
Sell 'em:

peace and quiet and a few readies to boot. Everyone's a winner!
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D&G wrote:God I wish I didn't have kids Headbanger
Bring em with you D&G, i am the whole family is coming
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I am planning on taking the whole family up from Chicago. Depending on how many takers, I might put on a bus or van. 10 hour drive from Chicago. Also I am good friends with the most rocking club in Toronto (The Horseshoe Tavern). They are well connected in that town. Put on most the concerts in Toronto and know the crowd that run the stadium. Would be a good boozer to spend the evenings.
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Guys, Toronto is pretty cool. I go often, actually going in April.

Anyway, my tip is for flights use http://www.canadianaffair.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;, consistently
cheaper than anywhere else. My flight in April is £198 :)

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Southwest has a $99 each way webfare, non-stop Tampa to Buffalo. Jet Blue is about a $250 round trio, also Buffalo. I think Buffalo to Toronto is a 2-hour drive. I’m more than a little nervous about flying Southwest though.
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dean_whu wrote:Guys, Toronto is pretty cool. I go often, actually going in April.

Anyway, my tip is for flights use http://www.canadianaffair.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;, consistently
cheaper than anywhere else. My flight in April is £198 :)

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Romford wrote: They work out more than me :wink:

So how can I go about getting flights from you then???!!!
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Iron worker wrote:I am planning on taking the whole family up from Chicago. Depending on how many takers, I might put on a bus or van. 10 hour drive from Chicago. Also I am good friends with the most rocking club in Toronto (The Horseshoe Tavern). They are well connected in that town. Put on most the concerts in Toronto and know the crowd that run the stadium. Would be a good boozer to spend the evenings.
That's where i am too at the moment Mate, spend a few days in Chicago first to get my body & sleeping habits in line, then drive with the Old Man to Toronto..

I was on Rand Mcnally yesterday having a Butchers at the route & we're looking at 529 miles by my calculations..
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Mid/Late 80's QPR/Luton...

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3 Officials at MLS headquarters in New York are playing it coy but it's no secret which team will provide the opposition at the annual All-Star game, scheduled for July 24 in Toronto.

That team will be England's Thames Ironworks FC, founded by shipyard workers in 1895 and more commonly known by the name it adopted in 1900: West Ham United.

West Ham, once home to 1966 World Cup winners Bobby Moore and Martin Peters, now features such recognized internationals as Sweden's Freddy Ljungberg, Peru's Nolberto Solano and Wales' Craig Bellamy, not to mention American defender Jonathan Spector.

Spector, incidentally, has joined the U.S. team for Thursday's winner-take-all semifinal against Canada in the CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament in Nashville.

West Ham, meanwhile, is currently in 10th place in the English Premier League. The Hammers are known for their stylish play, but that could be put to the test on Toronto FC's unpopular and uncompromising artificial surface.
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I did the train from Toronto to Chicago once. Big seats, cheapish, someone else drove and I drank beer all the way. When you are on the Amtrak bit the beer is dreadful, but when the train changes to VIA (the Canadian bit) the booze improves dramatically! Leave the car in the US boys. You have to park it in Toronto for 3 days/nights and it ain't cheap.
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The Hammers are known for their stylish play, but that could be put to the test on Toronto FC's unpopular and uncompromising artificial surface.

I was there last year, and the artificial turf looked okay to me.

Great atmosphere in the South Stand, lots of ex-pat E London and Essex there, along with a whole mob of lunatic jocks, italians, serbs, croats and god knows who else. All of them just want to watch the game.

Check out what happened when ex-Millwall Danny Dichio scored Toronto's first goal in the MLS a while back: about 30 seconds or so into this clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQvz01OKrsA

You'd get a lifetime ban at UP for doing that . . .

Oh yeah, check out our ex-goalie providing the colour commentary about 1min40 into the clip.

Finally, any of you lot making the trip will have a blast - great city, great birds, lotsa fun, killer time.
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Looks like fcukign Frizbees they're throwing !! :shock:

Any news from the West Coast & Vancouver Rich ??
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Have decided against going...even though i really wanted to.

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Awww. SouthWest is quality! If you fancy being stuffed into a sardine can and herded like cattle. :thdn:
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TampaHammer wrote:Awww. SouthWest is quality! If you fancy being stuffed into a sardine can and herded like cattle. :thdn:
I've been on much worse fella :shock:
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