o/t Exiles - longest you've gone not going to Blackpool (the town)

the_dog

the_dog

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Now we're in to October, it's 7 months since I last saw the Golden Mile and the Tower - during #NAPM I went getting on for 3 1/2 years without setting foot on the Fylde Coast - anyone else had lengthy stays away?
 
Probably around 6 months up until Covid, I can't remember a year I haven't been to the Fylde since I moved away at least a few times a year.
 
I was last there on 8th March. I was due to come up again on 10th October to watch the Sunderland game with a mate on iFollow, followed by drinks in Poulton with him and two other mates.
 
Not been to Blackpool since summer 96 ,,,not been in Bloomfield Road since Jan 86 or 87 ,,,was home to Reading ,,,realy bad game ,,,0-0 was result ,,,,
 
Find it hard to believe that some haven’t been to Blackpool for decades.

Even if I lived in the Falkland Islands or remote Pacific Island,I would have made at least one game during the Premiership season!
 
Travelled up for the "big return" against Southend but before that it must have been three years or so to pop in and see a relative on our way to the Lakes
 
Being a Wrexham lad me and my lad came up August bank holiday for the weekend and he rinsed me in the clubshop love Blackpool I come up as much as I can
 
Probably been 18 months or so since I brought my kids back for a weekend for their first visit - they came away wanting to live there (of course)! :)
 
3 years from 2016 to 2019. This is due to my two locations (as per my member name), NAPM and falling out with my sister who is one of only two remaining relatives who live there.
 
The Oyston boycott era from the January under Lee Clark until the Southend game, no idea how long that was. Not been since the Ipswich game this year which I believe was 29th Feb. Cannot see going this year. My parents died when I was quite young so not any great other reason to visit. All my BFC friends live outside the area mainly Lancaster area.
 
Haven't been since early March, next visit was going to be the Sunderland game before it went to lockdown etc.
 
GrahamwantshisOates said:
Find it hard to believe that some haven’t been to Blackpool for decades.

Even if I lived in the Falkland Islands or remote Pacific Island,I would have made at least one game during the Premiership season!
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Even living in Scotland, I would find it difficult to watch any games with Blackpool in the 'Premiership'. I thought that league was restricted to Scottish clubs and Berwick 😆
 
not been to Blackpool or been in the UK for 2 years... a long time away from Bloomers... the plan had been a big trip this July.... :(
12 years living outside the UK ..... hoping of a xmas or jan visit ????

seriously thinking of a return to live in UK in June or July 2021 - just a lot of stuff to organise including the wife´s visa etc...

cant wait to take my boy to his first game
 
and yes - I made 1 game in the prem... all my youth watching us in the lower division and then I move to Brazil and we got promoted to the prem :(
 
Didn't visit Layton for a fortnight once-biggest gap for some time and was pining for the old place for every minute.
Great holiday but asked the taxi driver to go down Westcliffe Drive on the way back 👍
 
I was in Blackpool on Tuesday it astounds me how run down the place has become its no longer the vibrant holiday resort I grew up in and lived in for 44 years.
 
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