The travels of Tim and Megan: Day Trip to Blackburn

On Saturday morning we rose early and made the short walk to Emirates Stadium, where we boarded one of the Arsenal supporters' buses bound for Blackburn. We had managed to get tickets to our first proper away match, the premier league clash between Blackburn v Arsenal. Blackburn is a small town in Lancashire, north-west England. The bus journey took around four and a half hours each way, but luckily we had the Saturday newspapers and lots of snacks to keep us going!

We arrived in Blackburn around 1.30pm and went straight to Ewood Park. We grabbed some lunch at the ground and had a pint before taking our seats and watching the Arsenal players warm up. We were in row 3, so we were very close to the field, right beside one of the corner flags!

There were a lot of Arsenal fans there and we easily made more noise than the home fans - although that wasn't hard, they barely said a word. After about half an hour of Arsenal chants and nothing in response from the home fans, the Gooners started chanting, "Shall we sing a song for you?" - quality.

Arsenal opened the scoring in the 8th minute, with England's latest superstar Theo Walcott beating a few defenders and passing to Robin van Persie who scored. Then Emmanuel Adebayor scored a hat-trick of goals to complete a 4-0 demolition. Arsenal dominated the match and could have (should have) scored more. A very pleasing result in what has traditionally been a tough place to get an away win.

After the game, the Arsenal players showed their appreciation to the travelling fans and Theo Walcott came right down to the fence where we were standing and gave his match shirt to a little kid just a metre away from us. Then it was back on the bus and back to London town. Surprisingly the weather in the north-west was really good. It was warm and sunny the whole day...it must be just London that is constantly grey and gloomy, not the entire country!

On Sunday, it actually was sunny in London for a change, so we went for a big walk down to Angel and along the canals to Shoreditch and then back home. It is really pretty down by the canals and there were plenty of people out walking, jogging and cycling. On the way home we stopped off at the Compton Arms for a Sunday roast - top quality.