Makings from the Madhouse: Queen Part 2

Our next Queen adventure was just the two of us Paul and i on our own, alone, off to see Queen in Manchester . Pauls been a huge Queen fan for years and i love them to, so i bought surprise tickets before Christmas and booked a hotel as well so we could make the most of it. At the last minute we decided to get the train so it would feel like proper break.

I did take some hooking with me though for the journey, this is the start of a baby blanket for my friend Emma, who is due in march.

Train selfie, to be honest being leyt out on our own made us a bit giddy and silly!

It was nice to see a bit of snow on the journey

The train station was only half a mile from the hotel and the hotel only half a mile from the arena, so Paul thought he would use the sat nav on his mobile, so we started walking to the hotel, however i realised it was really cold and i had the most inappropriate summer shoes on ( don't ask me why i decided to do that) so when i saw Primark i nipped in for some cheap ugg boot type things and once we came out we started walking again following the directs from the lady on the sat nav... only after 30 mins i started to question whether it was accurate as it should have only taken us 10 mins at the most! and when we arrived back in front of Primark to be honest i couldn't stop laughing, especially when Paul suggested that our first trip to Primark had confused it!

Turns out the hotel was just round the corner from Primark but the sat nav assumes you are driving and took us round Manchester centers one way system!!!!

The hotel had a really bad write up on trip adviser but as we had already booked and paid we went anyway. It was not as bad as i had expected and as we were going to be out most of the night we were happy with it ( won't bore you with all the other photos which showed its bad side.

But its been a long time since i have seen a tv like this in a hotel!

We had a couple of drinks in the room and headed out to have something to eat, quite a few Bacardis later and we headed off to the venue. On the way we walked through a train station that they are doing up and restoring, it was amazing and glorious, even the toilets must have been original and restored, i wanted to take some pictures but thought it was possible a bit inappropriate so just took this one of the ticket offices.

We arrived at the concert and got ourselves some fruit cider which has started a new addiction that not really compatible with my new diet! and waited for the show to start

We had to laugh ( at this point we were quite merry anyway) an elderly couple behind us were reading the TV times.. as if you would take that to a Queen Concert!!

We were up clapping and dancing, in fact Paul got a bruise on the palm of his hand from clapping so hard. They really were amazing and you could see the energy and effort they were putting into it. Adam Lambert was great and even a giant freddie joined us.